Current Line-up:
Mike Avery - Bass (2004 - present)
Mackle - Drums (2004 - present)
Nathan - Guitars / Vocals (2004 - present)
Mike Pollitt - Guitars / Vocals (2006 - present)

Ex-members:
Mike Owen - Guitars (2004-2006)

Biography:
So in early 2004 we had Mackle, Nat and Scott all ex Buzzweasel, pissing about with songs and seeing as they needed a bass player and picked up heiress Avery through a dating agency just outside Reading. 

This was the beginning of The Shadowcops earliest and dirtiest of song writing sessions with songs about Stonehenge, Falling Out of Cars and drinking battery acid at 4.00am all being thrown into the mix. 

Yet another new recruit came along in the form of Mike Owen, who at the time was falling out of favour with Steve Vai so the cops (still not called the cops at this point) grabbed him by the dreads and pulled him in. 

The cops (still not the cops at this point) lost Scott.  They were now a 4 piece.  They needed a new name.  After much ‘heated debate’ and writing names down on paper and deciding the best one ruled the roost, The Shadowcops were born.

The writing process continued and two tunes were recorded in Amsterdam in a misused crack den just outside the city centre.  These made up the first demo, Linking Together A Perfect Working Machine (2005).  Tragically the engineer who worked on this piece was later found in the back of a Ford Mondeo minus three fingers, two incisors and a bollock. 

The CD was well received by anyone who actually received it.  Mainly though Channel 4s Planet of Sound making the tune Natura Naturans their Demo of the week.  Gigs then followed to the usual onslaught of mates and not many others. 

Time to go ‘back to the studio’ in late 2005.  This time hitting the small town of Faccit just on the outskirts of Miami, Rochdale.  Here followed four songs of absolute brute force, mainly influenced by an engineer who wore shorts in the vein of political punk veteran Bobby G of Bucks Fizz fame.  Rumours were rife that Bobby G had provided guest vocals on one track.  The lawsuit was then dropped by G after he was cornered in a toilet cubicle by Avery in Hammersmith. The resulting EP being CASE #2094: The Positronic Malfunction (2006) .

Unfortunately, in October 2006 Mike O had decided to call it a day.  He currently resides at a nice retirement home in Coventry, regularly bashing out Sweet Child of Mine to any resident GnR fan. 

Times were a-changing in the cops, they were unknown to anyone but themselves and getting louder by the nanosecond.  By this point they were playing at 300 decibels a night and took the noise to Harry’s Bar in Chorley as a three piece and deafened over 10 people (but it felt like 100!).

Time to look for yet another git was on the cards for the cops.  This time they chanced their luck on a character known only as Baldrick's Bollocks.  His insistence to play his first gig with the band in full Balders gear and rotting smell was rejected and a bath plus a good scrub was had.  Balders settled in nicely, getting the cops some of the most unwatched gigs this side of the Atlantic bar none.

With a settled line up once again it was back to the studio for the cops for a third time with legendary hip hop producer and serial thriller TimG.  The cops were still unsure what the G stood for as when asked, they were met with an unruly silence followed by a trombone to the bollocks.

Five songs, five fucking songs were recorded in 4 days which consisted of the Ready When You Are EP (2007) taking shape.  The band are currently in South East Asia on a mass marketing campaign but are flying back to honour various gigs in Stockport and Morecambe as they jjust wouldn’t of had it any other way.

So there we go, the story so far of The Shadowcops.   Its not easy, it never is.  It’s never boring, never will be.  Always exciting, as expected.  Keep on rocking, expect the unexpected!
- Mackle