JIM CLARE - guitar, lead vocals

Music was around Jim from an early age, his older brother’s were into folk and his cousin Bob Henrit played in Argent and The Kinks

In the early 1980’s guitarist Jim Clare played for North Eastern UK bands Hellfire and Geneva… ‘It was hot pies and cans of Carlsberg Special in the rehearsal rooms with my first band, in the next room were Fist and the other was Hellanbach… it was like the Walk this Way video by Aerosmith and Run DMC haha.’

In 1980 he bought his Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop (1972) for £300 and used his brothers HH amp.

1980 his first proper band was called Hardline, we played The Mitre in Benwell and a few other pub’s in Newcastle. Then by 1981, he was in a power trio called Hellfire who had a couple of line ups and played a few gigs around the North East. That lasted until 1983’. Eventually joining AOR band Geneva in 1985 and again gigged around Tyneside notably at Edwards Bar, Mingles in Whitley Bay, Tiffany’s in Newcastle,

During the late 80’s he was guitarist in Black Metal merchants VENOM where he recorded the album Calm Before the Storm and went out on tour. ‘I joined Venom in 1986 which lasted a couple of years, that line up was Tony Bray on drums, on bass and vocals was Conrad Lant and Mike Hickey & myself on guitars.

Around ’89 Conrad formed CRONOS and they had Chris Patterson on drums. That lasted till around 1993’, releasing 2 albums, Dancing In The Fire & Rock ‘n’ Roll Disease. Other studio work was when he played for Warfare

Jim Clare (a.k.a. Jimi C.) then joined forces with Tygers ogf Pang Tang drummer Craig Ellis and bassist Willie Angus in a brand new project called PASSION PLAY and being guest guitarist with NE band Fallen Mafia  to record tracks for their debut album Lock & Load. Later Jim formed a new band, TRIBAL CORE, recorded an album in the UK called Attack of Meanness.

Still playing in and around the North East, Jim is maintaining his presence in no less than 3 bands, Ball Breakers, Balls of Steel and this latest project with Chris Bennett, drums & B J Skeels (Bazza Nova) bass in GODZZ OF WOR.