Artist description So what should you know about Dirty Harry? Well, Harry doesn't want to be in the biggest band in Britain, she wants to front the biggest band in the world. And if she was the biggest rock star in the world... "When," Harry chides gently. "Not if, when..." "I know my fate had been pre-ordained because of that vision I had as a kid," she laughs. "I have other-wordly forces on my side. I want to be doing this when I'm fifty - still living and loving and affecting. I want to do this for the kids who hate Travis and middle-of-the-road pop music. I want to connect with kids because I am those kids. I'm a teenage music fan and if I don't know what kids want then someone in a suit in a record company office sure as hell doesn't know." Good point, well made. So the only worry now for Dirty Harry I guess is the prospect of being sued by the 'Dirty Harry' film producers...

Music Style Eclectic and ever-evolving: Industrial to electronic to power pop with constant ringing overtones of classic rock

Musical Influences Totally varied. Madonna to Tairrie B, Jeff Buckley to Led Zep.

Similar Artists No-one. We're totally unique.

Artist History There have been a few previous lineups of Dirty Harry before now, but this is the final recipe. Dirty Harry have most recently been touring with bands such as: Sona Fariq, Crazy Town, Disturbed, and Wheatus, as well as putting in an admirable set for the Carling Weekend 2001.

Group Members Current lineup: The Vox: Harry Bass/Programming: Eden The Drummerboy: Oly G The Axe Wielder: ***

Albums None yet released...2 singles to date ('Eye' and 'Nothing Really Matters') and an apperance on the 'Mike Bassett: England Manager' movie soundtrack ('So Real')

Press Reviews Harry, the voice, brain and face of London-based rockers Dirty Harry, smiles sweetly and takes another sip of her drink. Approximately ten feet behind us in a bijou central London restaurant an old dear freezes like a rabbit caught in the beam of car headlights, her mouth hanging open as she tries to take in what she's just heard. People often react like this when Harry opens her mouth. Just pop her CD on the stereo if you want proof. Fuck-off guitars. Skyscraper choruses. Thumping floor-shaking beats. And a voice that reaches inside you, strips your soul bare and sets your synapses tingling. The fresh, vital and incendiary sound of the millennium's first genuine new rock stars. Rock...only more so. Pop...but not like you understand it. The amplified sound of tomorrow today. You know you want it. Feeling lucky punk? Then let Dirty Harry make your day... Dirty Harry are Harry, a leather-clad free spirit from Reading, who shares her birthday (10/5/81) with Bono, Sid Vicious and Fred Astaire; Lee Parker, a 27-year-old, virtuoso guitarist (and one-time city suit) – ‘the Jimmy Page to my Robert Plant,’ says Harry; bassist Mike Ill (‘looks like Iggy Pop, smokes too much pot but he’s lovely’); and drummer Michael Wildwood Reich (‘really good, he goes right to the roots of rock’). The latter two were recruited from the New York rock scene. When Harry was a kid her parents banned her from watching 'Top Of The Pops' because they thought the show was demonic. In fairness, they may have had a point. You remember the '80s don't you - Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Wham...the spawn of Satan each and every one. Mind you, compared to today's crop of 'TOTP' regulars - emasculated Irish crooners, silicon-enhanced teen poppets, Butlins redcoats ferchrissakes - those bands were industrial noise terrorists. We desperately need a revolution people, someone to save us from the current glut of vacuous guitar-strumming mummy's boys, preening pop automaton's and simpering stage school brats. And right on cue, here comes Dirty Harry to deliver us from evil. It all started, well, let Harry explain... "I was sitting in bed one night and I had a vision," the singer reveals. "I saw myself singing to a really big auditorium with my hand out and I just thought 'Oh my God, that's what I've got to do with my life.' That sounds really mad, but that's what happened. I've always known that I'd do this because of that vision."A Madonna and Duran Duran-worshipping pop kid, Harry had her eyes opened to the world of loud guitars and visceral rock by Nirvana's classic 'Nevermind' album."When I first heard Nirvana I thought 'Wow this rocks!'" Harry grins, her eyes ablaze with the memory. "I love pop songs but then I also want to shake my f**king ass so I wanted to write pop songs and put heavy guitars all over it. I fused the two in my head and thought 'Yeah, you can be sexy but still really rock." The musical re-education of Harry the pop kid was a swift, exciting affair. In the early years of grunge Nirvana, Hole and Babes In Toyland were "the bomb", nights at fetish clubs, er 'exposed' Harry to goth bands like Sheep On Drugs and Nine Inch Nails and the holy trinity of Jim [Morrison], Janis [Joplin] and Jimi [Hendrix] took up squatters' rights on the bedroom stereo. Harry's parents continued to tear down the posters in her room but the teenager knew she was on the right path. "Part of the reason I wanted to do this was because I was getting so upset watching music shows on TV and realising that there was nothing that I wanted to listen to," Harry spits. "The sheer frustration of hearing shit music drove me to do this. And fortunately I found some people who believed in me and shared my vision" One such person was renowned producer Youth, a man who having played bass with Killing Joke and produced The Verve's 'Northern Hymns' album knows maverick genius and raw talent when he sees it. After hearing Dirty Harry's first batch of demos, Youth agreed to help capture Harry's vision and the pair began working on new material at Youth's county house long before there was a record deal on the horizon. Slowly but surely a batch of stunning new songs took shape. But not everyone 'got' Dirty Harry. "I wanted to do like a female Nine Inch Nails kinda vibe," Harry smiles, "but two years ago I'd walk into a record company and tell them I wanted to do rock music and they'd laugh at me. I had tons of record companies wanting to make me the next Christina Aguilera and I was offered record deals if I'd be that person. I could have sold my soul and made a few quid but there's no integrity in that."One listen to Dirty Harry's songs will leave you in no doubt that Harry is not "that person." The tracks are filled with fearless, straight-talking, take-no-shit messages, empowering lyrics offering empathy and support for the disaffected and alienated, the outsiders and those who dare to be different. The central theme is 'Be Yourself...and fuck anyone who gets in your way. "There's a lot of messages in my songs about being a strong female and not being afraid," Harry notes. "I know I'll be facing certain preconceptions, because people will make instant judgements based on the way I look. I might have to work twice as hard to get respect but I'll f**king do it. When Blondie came to England the press killed her and thought she was just a pretty whore but who had the last laugh? When people hear these songs in a rock club they're not going to care what I look like - they're just going to f**king go with it."

Location London, London - United Kingdom

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