18 Wheeler were a Scottish

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active in the 1990s, consisting of Sean Jackson (vocals, guitar),

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(guitar, vocals), Alan Hake (bass), and Neil Halliday (drums). Original bassist Chris "Pint Glass" Stewart left before any recordings were made, and was replaced by original drummer Hake. Keenan left in 1994 to start his own group, the Telstar Ponies and was replaced by guitarist Steven Haddow. In the same year, the band released their first album ''Twin Action'' on

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on 25 July, and on 22 May 1995 they released their second album, ''Formanka''. Their third album, ''Year Zero'', which saw them take a more experimental sample-based approach, was released on 10 March 1997. The remixed single "Stay" was given mainstream radio play and gave them their only UK Top 75 hit single (peaking at No. 59 in March). They were subsequently dropped by Creation during the recording of what was to be their fourth studio release. Although Alan Hake has stated that Creation Records allowed the band to keep the master tapes to this album, no plans to officially release it have materialised. Hake went on to co-found the

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record label. The band were once introduced by

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at the 1996 Labour Party Conference. The future

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managed to wrongly introduce them as "Wheeler 18". Their biggest claim to fame, however, is that they were the band

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were supporting the night that Oasis were discovered by

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in Glasgow on 31 May 1993.Alan Hake of 18 Wheeler « Creation Records
After a hiatus of several years spent mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, Sean Jackson returned to the music world with the solo album ''Slots'', recorded in 2005. The album, although written in

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, Eastern

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, and

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, is influenced by traditional British folk, as well as

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, and was released on PoppyDisc Records in spring 2010. He read English as undergraduate at the

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and subsequently obtained a post-graduate diploma in Russian language from the

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Line up

* Sean Jackson: Guitars, Vocals, Bass and Piano * Neil Halliday: Percussion, Vocals, Guitars and Synth * Alan Hake: Bass, Vocals, Guitars and Moog * Steven Haddow: Guitars, Vocals *

: Guitars, Vocals * Paul Fyfe: Guitars * Chris Stewart: Bass

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Twin Action'' (1994, CRECD164) * ''Formanka'' (1995, CRECD181 & CRECD181L) * ''Year Zero'' (1997, CRECD192)

Singles and EPs

* "Nature Girl" * "Suncrush" * "Kum Back" * "The Revealer" * "Boddha" * "Steel Guitars" * "The Hours And The Times" * "Crabs" * "Prozac Beats" * "Stay" * "Grease"

References

External links

Creation Records

My Space 18 Wheeler

My Space Sean Jackson

My Space Astro Naughty (Steve Haddow)

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