The Shining





Band - The Shining

Life Span - 2002-2003


Line Up(s)

Pre-The Shining
Vocals - Duncan Baxter
Lead Guitar - John Squire
Guitar - Simon Tong
Bass - Simon Jones
Drums - Mark Heaney


The Shining
Vocals - Duncan Baxter
Lead Guitar - Dan MacBean
Guitar / Keyboards - Simon Tong
Bass - Simon Jones
Drums - Mark Heaney



Albums - True Skies

Best Known Tracks - Quicksilver, I Wonder How, Young Again

Official Website - N/A

Other Info - The band got together in John Squire's back garden. Squire was working with the two ex-verve Simons on the premise of a new project (after John Squire's famous Skunk Works ad). Although material was written nothing ever came out of the collaboration and John Squire went on to go solo and the others went on to form The Shining.

They enjoyed a small following for a while but then Simon Tong famously left in 2003 to fill the void in Blur that Graham Coxon left when he left the band in Summer 2002.


Tracks samples


The Shining - Quicksilver


The Shining - Young Again



Purchase the full versions...

The Shining - True Skies





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