Classic line-up...

Left to right in opposite photo:

Tony Stock: Keyboards

Marcus Flynn: Guitars

Adrian Todd: Drums

Rick Chase: Vocals

Jim Page: Bass

This site is dedicated to celebrating the music of a band that achieved a lot in the 1990's. We hope you enjoy browsing through this site as much as we have enjoyed ploughing through the old photos and recordings! It all seems like yesterday!

The "Big noise" EP was their second release. They has peviously released their debut single "Stay" in 1989 which gained some excellent feedback and reviews within the music industry. Dave Ling of RAW Magazine called the quintet "A class band with an ear tuned for melody", and Dave Shack (Now high up in RCA records, and married to X-Factors' Nikki Chapman) went as far as hailing the single as "Magic!"

The track "Stay" was also released Worldwide on a Belgian compilation CD called "Metal Thunder" in 1991.

On the live front, Graffiti gained recognition at home and abroad, headlining many venues including The Marquee in London, and The Roxy in Los Angeles. Rock City News, one of the Hollywood music papers, praised the band highly, and hoped they'd return to the States "real soon", calling Graffiti "One of the more talented melodic hard rock bands to emerge from the UK in a long while".

Apart from countless appearences at the London marquee, other live appearences included the London Hippodrome, the International Music Festival in Sopot, Poland (Three consecutive years), FM Station Los Angeles, plus many other smaller UK circuit gigs inluding The Royal Standard, Walthamstow, The Stick of Rock, London.

Graffiti first saw the light of day in late '87 when vocalist Rick Chase, after spending a brief spell with Irish rockers Mama's Boys, teamed up with guitarist Marcus Flynn and keyboard player Tony Stock. After recruiting Adrian Todd to the drum stool, the band went through some personnel changes in the bass department before Jim Page joined the ranks in Feb. 1990. This being the classic Graffiti line-up.

It was then immediately apparent that the band had that "something else" entwined beneath the surface of their song structures that shone through. Although unsigned at the time, they showed professionalism, finesse and polish. In short, Graffiti possessed a quality that not many bands in the UK are able to achieve.

Based in Oxfordshire, this melodic quintet harnessed a modern day Styx/Honeymoon Suite feel, with the stadia stature and warmth of Magnum, yet behind it all, the superb, soaring guitar work of Flynn gave the added power, resulting in BIG songs, BIG vocals, and at the time, many believed, a BIG future!

1990 saw important developments in Graffiti's progress for rock stardom, and the year was highlighted with the release of their "Big Noise" EP, which contained three tracks from the bands' Autumn Radio One session.

Track listing:

Shine a light, If you want lust, Is it really love.

Debut single "Stay"/"Rock the World"