News and stories about Axe artists and their events and activities
Major Hoople’s Boarding House has traveled the hard show biz road familiar to most show bands. From early 1967 high school gigs to performing in leaky roofed arenas, they moved on up to engagements throughout Ontario, the American border States …READ MORE
Jim Corbett, the original bass player in Thundermug, is now 66 and is living a full and active life. He married again in April 2015 to his girl friend Sara and is now a father to her three young kids. …READ MORE
It was exhausting, the pay wasn’t good and the travelling expensive and challenging for band members John Dudgeon, Tony Dunning, Ray Angrove, keybordist Bob Forrester and bassist Rob Cockell. The young rock-R&B band Steel River from Toronto’s east end had …READ MORE
Gary Weeks and Dave Beckett‘s love of flying came while they were both teenagers. Gary Weeks was born in PEI and Dave Beckett in Toronto and in the early 60’s they met and shared their mutual aspirations for music and …READ MORE
