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Redhill's tour of small pub/club venues around the country continues into the New Year....

Thursday 16th January                           Derby Victoria Inn
Friday 17th January                                 Northampton Soundhaus tbc
Friday 24th January                                 Winchester Railway

A poll has been started at the Redhill Mob Mailing List to find out where the fans are based so that the information can be passed on to the band's management/booking team as a means of feedback to help with organising future gigs.  Also, if you have any suggestions for venues near you who would be willing to book RedHill, please send in your suggestions.

The new improved Redhill website is up and running with photos, merchandise and email addresses for the band.  Check it out at:  REDHILLMUSIC
news articles from the past few months are also available in the recycled section
The Lynch mob are coming
BY VICTORIA KNOWLES, EVENING STAR
November 29, 2002 06:03

Shane Lynch was one fifth of Boyzone, one of the biggest selling boy bands of all time. The pop incubator may have spawned many bands in Boyzone's wake but one has definitely turned out to be the black sheep of the family. Shane is currently touring with new band Redhill so as he prepares to come to Ipswich, VICTORIA KNOWLES caught up with him.

YOU know the one in Boyzone who never quite fitted in? The one with the rebellious piercings and tattoos lurking under his white-washed image? Well he is back and the new Shane Lynch is a very different incarnation.  The uniform of white suits and windswept beaches neatly packaged around
the familiar beat of a Boyzone ballad has gone. In its place is a barely recognisable young man ready to sing the world a very different song.  When Shane stood next to the other Boyzone members he looked every inch the square peg jamming awkwardly into the showbiz circle.  But despite this there is still an air of reverence surrounding his memories of his time with one of the biggest exports from Ireland since U2 rocked into our conscious.

Shane is now, in his own wonderfully lilting Irish words, "one fourth of Redhill", a band which is being marketed as having the raw funky edge of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers coupled with the disenchanted energy of Linkin Park. Quite a leap for the chap who spent much of his early 20s in the shadow of Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately, the short one who seems to have been forcibly removed from the world of show business.  But his time with the chart topping foursome was a great start and one he will never regret.  "I have learnt my art and my time with Boyzone was invaluable. When I look back I did learn so much and it is never something that I will regret.  "But Redhill is really where I want to be at the moment. Everything is going very well. We just had a gig in the London Marquee club and I really enjoyed it. This is more the music I am into. We have been together two years and we get on very well," said the 26-year-old.  Take a look at his pictures today and you can see just how hard Shane is trying to rid himself of the lingering hold Boyzone has on him. Although he acknowledges the band's influence on him, a pop life time in the media has taught him that a picture tells a thousand tales. Ditch the short back and sides, wear your trousers almost obscenely baggy, add an array of body jewellery and you are on the way to rough-edged stardom.  "For me my musical influences have always been hip hop. Even when I was in Boyzone it was what I went home and listened to. I never went home and listened to pop.  "What we do now is still not straight hip hop but it has given me the opportunity to rap which has always been my interest.

"We have been likened to Red Hot Chilli Peppers with our melodies but with a harder edge. It is rock rap and so far people have found it very entertaining.  I was always a little more extreme than the others in Boyzone," Shane laughed.  He may have been a little more extreme but he has also admitted in other interviews that he was gutted when the band split up and has publicly blamed golden boy Ronan Keating for the split.  Speaking to The Sun last year he said: "I was looking to the future and it didn't happen. It was Ronan's fault, no one else's. I just hope I never run in to him again."

While the tone of a well rehearsed media voice is hard to ignore Shane's voice takes on a far more natural excitement when asked about his great passion – racing cars."I am still driving and this season has just finished. We have had a few firsts and my aim is to get to Le Mans in 2005.  "I have moved up the ranks really quickly and I am now driving GTs.  When I get in the car I never know if I am going to get out again. It is a very dangerous sport but I love the thrill," he said excitedly.

Shane's attitude to his old band members seems to have mellowed now that he has found his own direction. And his eagerness to talk about Redhill and not the band that made his name is, no doubt, his own way of putting the demons to rest.  "I feel like I have entered a new world that I am getting used to. We are playing at all these venues and I know that we have to do this. Start at the bottom and work our way up.  This band is not Shane Lynch, I am just one fourth of Redhill. Some of the places we play in only hold about 100 people and some times we have been playing to only 30 or 40. This is so different to what I am used to but it is all good. This is our first little tour and so far so good. We are getting on really well as a band. I am the newest member and I really am the new boy, the others used to be in an indie band together called Dust so they are used to each other.”

"Everything is so spontaneous and we do everything live which again is something very different for me. When I was in Boyzone much of our stuff was done to backing tracks.  I know I am going to be asked about Boyzone for a long time. But look at Robbie Williams he is still asked about Take That and he has managed to start his own solo career.  It is a very different direction and it does feel like I am entering the music world for the first time. It is not easy for me to shed the image but god willing hopefully that will come with time," he reflected.