http://www.peermusic.com/artistpage/Ricky_Warwick.html Ricky Warwick Warwick has signed a solo publishing deal with Peermusic and is about to go into the studio with long time best mate and Sheffield's most loved son Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) producing and Ronan McHugh co-producing engineering. Warwick is looking to combine his early love of roots music with his by now accomplished songwriting and the results are due later this year. Bio Ricky Warwick was born in Newtonards, North County Down, Northern Ireland. Growing up with a disdain for Abba and cocking an ear to John Peel and local Downtown radio, Warwick was weaned on a steady diet of The Ramones, local heroes SLF, Motorhead and MC5 before he moved to Scotland at age Fifteen. At age twenty Warwick was stunned to be asked to join the folk punk band of the moment playing guitar. A world tour in '87 (first gig supporting David Bowie in Berlin on The Glass Spider tour in front of 80,000 people) saw Warwick picking up a lust for songwriting from NMA frontman Justin Sullivan. Arriving back in Glasgow exhilarated, Warwick formed The Almight. Longtime pals Floyd London (bass player) and Stumpy (drums) were his obvious cohorts. Quickly securing a record deal with Polydor, The Almighty had huge success in Europe and South East Asia over Eight years. This included ten top Forty U.K. hit singles, a top Five U.K. album ('Powertripping'), two top Twenty U.K. albums ('Soul Destruction' and 'Crank'), a top Twenty album ('Just Add Life') as well as opening Donnington Monsters Of Rock in 1992 and playing with Metallica at Milton Keyes bowl. This resulted in the band topping The Kerrang reader's poll for Best Live Act in 1994 and Warwick winning 'Nutter Of The Year' and 'Worst Haircut' (which was quickly discontinued) in the same poll. Whilst The Almighty were certainly ensconced in the hard rock world, (Ricky was writing ninety per cent of The Almighty9s material) at home and on the tour bus he was immersing himself in bouts of country outlaws Johnny Cash, Steve Earle and John Prine as well as the flawless songwriting of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. The band spilt in 1996 with Warwick returning to Ireland, where he formed Sic with Ciaran McGoldrick and Gary Sullivan. They toured in Japan and the U.K. between '96 and '98, eventually self-combusting in the raucous time they were having. However it wasn't long before the lure of The Almighty returned and in '99 the quartet were back in the studio with Ronan McHugh (Def Leppard, Sic). The Almighty's sixth album (self titled) and 2001's 'Psycho Narco' (produced by legendary Ramones producer Daniel Rey) followed and The Almighty were back on the road playing U.K., European and Japanese shows. 2002 and The Almighty are back on hold indefinitely, Warwick has signed a solo publishing deal with Peermusic and is about to go into the studio with long time best mate and Sheffield's most loved son Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) producing and Ronan McHugh co-producing engineering. Warwick is looking to combine his early love of roots music with his by now accomplished songwriting and the results are due later this year. There's a co-write with Del James (Guns And Roses long time mentor), a co-write with Joe Elliott (60 million sales and rising) and a co-write with fellow Peer music signing Garrett Wall. "Writing these songs is a dream come true and I'm very excited about the possibilities and challenges that are opening up with it, it'll be nice to try and get through to people without having to blast them with volume. That doesn't mean the songs won't be delivered with the same raw intensity that people associate with me. To me Johnny Cash is as much a rock and roll rebel as Sid Vicious." Dave Roberts - January 2002