The Story of Spandex Bullet
Spandex Bullet crashed onto the Kent music scene in 2024 with one mission: To shake up the tired old cover band formula. We’d had enough of lifeless, note-for-note renditions of the same overplayed pub rock, so we decided to do something about it. Fueled by the spirit of punk, we set out to bring some chaos, energy, and fun back to live music.
We take songs you know and - whether you want to admit it or not - love, and tear into them with reckless abandon. But this isn’t just a nostalgia trip - it’s a full-blown celebration of what makes music exciting in the first place. Every gig is a chance to cut loose, sing loud, and get swept up in the madness.
Spandex Bullet isn’t just another covers band. We’re a reminder that music should be fun, unpredictable, and maybe just a little bit daft sometimes. So grab a drink (if that's your thing), head down the front, and let’s make some noise!
Meet The Band
Dave
Vocals & Percussion
Dave was born to be a frontman. Or, more specifically, he was found in a pub in Kent, and nothing could stop him from standing in front of people and shouting at them. We don't even know why he bothers with a microphone half of the time.
Entirely unafraid of doing silly things in front of a crowd, Dave has always harboured a desire to sing punked-up covers of distinctly un-punk songs, and has finally found his musical home with his Spandex Bullet brothers.
As the band's biographer, Dave is also handsome, urbane, witty, and incredibly well endowed.
Musical influences: Ginger Wildheart, Frank Zappa, Prince, Devin Townsend, and for some reason, terrible garage rock from the 1960s.
Rich
Guitar
Born in the Pit Towns of Western Yorkshire and raised on meat pies, gravy and dandelion & burdock, Rich followed the well-trodden path from high school band into the abyss of middle of the road pub cover bands.
Despite all the Northern grimness and his voyage through musical purgatory, Rich's punk soul always yearned for more, and he was saved from his drudgery when the Bullet came calling.
His love of chunky riffs and power chords now reignited, you’ll rarely hear him play a scale, because, according to the man himself, "Tha wun’t mek no brass past t’12th fret!"
Musical influences: CKY, anything Cal-Punk, The Bangles - although that one's not really about the music.
Pope Will I,
Paragon of Virtue
Bass
Bass.
Player.
Luke
Guitar
Beneath Luke's calm exterior beats a punk-loving heart forged in the sweaty, violent, beer-soaked scene of the... uh... education profession.
His approach to music is to channel every bit of frustration and annoyance at modern life, run it through an 80s filter, and return it to the world through the medium of distorted guitar.
Despite how it looks, he hates guitar sex faces.
Musical influences: Motörhead, Alexei Sayle, Bad News, Neil Pye
Simon
Drums
Simon turns up and hits things.
After some not-very-scientific experiments with nunchucks and piñatas, we found the best way to channel this was to shove a pair of sticks in his hands and put him behind a drum kit.
This turned out to be his natural home, where he plays with absolutely no regard for either his or anyone else's wellbeing.
So, really, all we could ever wish for.
Musical influences: Alkaline Trio, Blink-182, Koji Kondo
