Biography
Based in the Midlands, LunarMile was founded by vocalist Toni-Marie Iommi - Daughter of Black Sabbath Guitarist Tony Iommi - and guitarist Tom Williams in 2003; Bassist Alex Hill and Drummer Rob Stimpson from the band Gravel joined in 2005.
The bands style is unique, yet contains clear rock influences from bands like Led Zeppelin and The Stones to Queen, with heavy influences from today’s successful bands like Him, Queens of the Stone Age, No Doubt and Muse. The resulting mix is a breathtaking kaleidoscope of classically influenced modern rock.
The band have clocked up over 120 gigs to date, including Carling Academies, Mean Fiddler, Hard Rock London & Birmingham, The Underworld The Barfly Aberdeen And London, Bannermans Edinburgh, Engine Rooms Brighton, Rock City Nottingham, Gibson Guitar Studios London, Old Blue Last London, LSE, Caernarvon Castle, JBs Dudley, Rios Bradford, Little Civic Wolverhampton, Oxford Zodiac, Robin 2 Bilston, Barfly Birmingham, Edwards No 8 Birmingham, Cox’s Yard Stratford-upon-Avon, Marrs Bar Worcester. Basically the band have played the length and Breadth of the UK and firmly established themselves with the major and regional press and radio. They have also done a number of very successful support slots with the likes of Whitesnake, Glenn Hughes, Blue Öyster Cult and Ricky Warwick (The Almighty), Breed77 and McQueen to name just a few.
They are regulars on the news pages of the Blabbermouth.net website and related syndicated sites and have had airplay on radio stations across the world including BBC 6 Music (Bruce Dickinson Show), Kerrang! Radio, Total Rock Radio, Planet Rock, The Rock FM (New Zealand) and Sveriges Radio (Sweden). They also did a live acoustic session for BBC Radio WM earlier this year. LunarMile’s first EP, simply titled LunarMile was released in June 2006, available via iTunes and www.lunarmile.com and now they are about to go into the studio for more recording
For the latest news on the band, check out www.lunarmile.com or www.myspace.com/lunarmile
The Indy Awards & BBC WMLunarMile have been nominated for the National Indy Awards, Please vote for us by clicking here. In conjunction with this, the band have recieved airplay on BBC WM on the new music show on thursday nights.
Kerrang! RadioThe band have been invited in to do an Acoustic session and interview, to be aired on 'The night before' with Nick Margerrison, Thursday 14th February. The show starts from 10pm, click here to tune in.
Total Guitar Gig and Magazine Appearance
During August of 2007 the band were asked to feature at The International Guitar Festival in Bath, the gig was featured heavily in the Total Guitar Magazine to coincide with the event and the band went down a storm at the gig.
LunarMile to record with legendary producer Chris Tsangarides
The band are to work with Chris Tsangarides this Autumn. The legendary producer has taken in credits for artists such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore and Bruce Dickinson to name but a few.
