Stairway

Stairway began after being influenced by the NWOBHM era. The Debut CD, 'No Rest : No Mercy' produced by Paul Hodson (Hard Rain / Bob Catley), hailed the band's International popularity. The band continued to work live, and independently released in 1999 the second album 'Bleeding Heart'. Stairway's 3rd album 'On Hallowed Ground' was released in 2002 and gained the band an increased global fan base. Following up on this success, Stairway featured in an un-signed bands contest by AOR Dreamzones.com which they duly won with 38% of the vote! This followed by having the track 'Under the Gun' chosen to feature on a compilation CD issued by American Label MIB Music which was released World Wide in 2003. Further to calls for their debut album, Stairway signed a Licensing deal with Retroactive Records in the USA to re-release the 'No Rest: No Mercy' album as a Limited Edition which is now available on the market. Gigs to follow this up took place in 2005, followed by an incredible gig appearance in October '05 at Metalfest Germany Co-headlining with Rob Rock (USA) and Narnia (Sweden). In 2006 the band released their 4th CD - 'The Other Side of Midnight', a disc of pure Classic Heavy Metal, which saw its debut Chart entry at #2 in the USA's National College Chart, together with two Nominations for Best Album and Best Group in the NMW Awards in Hollywood USA, and is now available in all good Record Stores. Stairway furthered their profile by securing slots at UK festival dates co-headlining with Blaze Bayley in 2007 and Blitzkrieg in 2008; Rob Jennens in late 2008 retired from the band to dedicate more time to his family. Pete, Andy and Graeme decided they had more to offer and made the decision to continue as a three piece. The first album as a three piece and the band's fifth studio album 'Interregnum' was released in April 2010 on CD and Limited Edition coloured blue vinyl - to round off a successful year, Stairway released the Christmas Digi Single 'Christmas Merry Christmas' on iTunes and Amazon, and followed up with the release in January 2011 of the digi-single 'Enter the Light' mastered by the mighty Dennis Ward of Pink Creme 69, House of Lords and Bob Catley fame. The band started work writing and recording new material in 2011, and although a release date is yet to be agreed for the next album, further news is expected in 2012. Gigs to support this and earlier albums are also planned, so it should be a busy new year for the band.