User:T.Rextasy
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'T.REXTASY' - THE WORLD'S ONLY OFFICIAL TRIBUTE BAND TO MARC BOLAN & T.REX
"THE BEST LIVE TRIBUTE BAND IN THE UK" AS VOTED ON THE BBC1 TELEVISION SHOW 'BATTLE OF THE FANTASY BANDS!
"They're the closest you're ever gonna get to the real thing" - Bill Legend
"Danielz just freaks me out" - Mickey Finn
"They are the best tribute to Marc in the world. Danielz has got the sound exactly right. He's even the same height as Marc!" - Tony Visconti
"T.Rextasy are a great tribute to my Dad and do a fantastic job - they have my support 100%" - Rolan Bolan
"When I saw Danielz a shiver went up my spine. If there is anyone who can step into Marc's shoes, I'd like it to be him" - June Bolan
"T.Rextasy play a wonderful replica of Marc's music and recreate his songs so authentically" - Steve Harley
"I applaude like a multitude - heroic and a gas" - Melody Maker
T.Rextasy played their first ever concert in September 1992 at The Dove in Hackney, East London. Amongst those watching was original T.Rex drummer Bill Legend. From that day on, T.Rextasy went from strength to strength obtaining agency deals from around the UK.
In 1993 The band was checked out by Gary Glitter who was impressed enough to have T.Rextasy opening for him at Wembley Arena, NEC Birmingham, Sheffield Arena, and all the Arenas of Great Britain. T.Rextasy went down so well that they ended up playing Wembley Arena and the NEC Birmingham again the following year.
Due to their Arena success, they obtained a CD album deal through Madman Records (UK)and Quatro Records (Japan) and Columbia Records (Japan) where they released two albums, 'Trip & Glide'(1994), and 'Savage Beethoven'(1997). To coincide with their first CD release, an original song 'Baby Factory' was issued in a replica 'T.Rex' sleeve (now a collectable item), followed by the cd single and a promotional video.
The band followed this up with two highly successful tours of Japan selling out the Quattro Club circuit, before stepping upwards to playing venues that included the giant Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, which was filmed and shown by NHK TV Japan in 1996.
Throughout the 1990s, and along the way, T.Rextasy have played at the prestigious Billy Elliot Film Party - (amongst the film cast there was also in attendance Kathy Burke and Hugh Grant), headlined the special 1997 Anniversary Concert for Marc Bolan at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, made so many televsion and radio appearances that are just too numerous to mention here, and have appeared on various CD compilation albums around the world.
T.Rextasy have been gigging around the world taking in Abu Dhabi, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Marrakech, and other countries while consistently keeping a strong-hold on the UK market in which they now not only play with Marc Bolan's contemporaries such as Slade, Cockney Rebel, Roy Wood, Suzi Quatro,Sweet, Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople) and others, but also headline extremely successful theatre tours, festivals, and the better quality rock clubs.
T.Rextasy are the only Marc Bolan Tribute Band in the world band that have official backing from all of the following; Tony Visconti (Bolan's producer), Bill Legend (T.Rex Drummer), Rolan Bolan (Bolan's son), Gloria Jones (Bolan's girlfriend), June Bolan (Bolan's wife), Miller Anderson (T.Rex Guitarist), Dino Dines (Bolan's keyboardist and T.Rextasy's keyboardist for the last few years of his life), Harry Feld (Bolan's brother), Mick O'Halloran (Bolan's personal roadie)
Line up: Danielz - lead vox/lead guitarist Neil Cross - Rhythm guitarist/bvs Paul Marks - Bass guitarist/bvs Nigel Silk - drums/percussion
