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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nHaving racked up four albums over the couple of decades, most recently with 2018\u2019s glorious ‘Rompous Pompous’<\/em>, Smash Fashion found themselves frustrated at the side of the road, having seen off yet another rhythm section. Flying V-toting glam tag-team Roger Deering and Lloyd Stewart Casson had a bunch of songs written but nowhere to go. His rock\u2019n\u2019roll compass spinning wildly, Deering took time out, fetching up in London on a trip to see his girlfriend. It was there that he suddenly saw the light!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI spent some time in Ladbroke Grove, I brought my guitar and wrote a bunch of newer, darker material. I felt I was channelling the vibes of the area\u2026 Hawkwind, Mot\u00f6rhead and The Clash\u2026\u201d Add to that soup\u00e7on of Lizzy, The Damned, The Ruts, UFO \u2013 don\u2019t forget Phil Mogg\u2019s nephew Nigel had already slung bass with the Fashion brigade \u2013 and a liberal dose of NWOBHM and you\u2019re getting a very heavy picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Calling his buddy to gas up the van, on his return, the pair hooked up with hard-hitting drummer Greg Rogers, once of Maryland metal legends The Obsessed and currently LA stoners Goatsnake, and bassist Bruce Braddock, Deering\u2019s old sparring partner from Miami punks The Drills, who played with everyone from Bad Brains and the Dead Boys to the Ramones and Mot\u00f6rhead.<\/p>\n\n\n