EDDIE AUFFRAY
Lightning Strike is a British band but spent some time in New York successfully drumming up a major-label recording contract. Bandmembers as listed on the back of the single sleeve are Dave Earl (vocals and guitar), Eddie Auffray (guitar and vocals), Teb Scott (drums), John Brooder (bass and vocals), and Sten Stenhouse (keyboards and vocals). Kevin Daly, their manager is listed as “mouth”.
Paul Fischer, in his interview with Eddie Auffray for Louder than War, gives this overview of the scene around Lightning Strike: “If you were a leather-jacket wearing teenager in London around that time you couldn’t miss them, they were the house band of the ‘Intrepid Fox‘ and at the hub of a scene that has never really been documented, based around said boozer in Soho’s Wardour Street where everyone congregated before gigs at the Marquee which was over the other side of the road.”
In the Paul Fischer interview, Eddie Auffray reports that Lightning Strike worked for two years on demos for a second album on RCA, but the label wasn’t interested.
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Eddie Auffray stuck with it; as reported by Paul Fischer: “I continued to play in different bands, one of them being Trash. Eventually Trash split and just after that I auditioned for Speedway, the bass player being a mate of mine and suggesting me. The rest is history! Ha! I wish!” But Speedway did wind up recording an album called Entertainment (1999) for Socal Records.
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Eddie Auffray relocated to Barcelona and recently joined a punk rock band called Ravales. “After about 6 months, I started to put out adverts and eventually got back into playing. Maxi Santapa (vocals/bass) put Ravales together based around his skate shop HEY HO SKATE. I was put forward by the (then) drummer, auditioned and joined. Drummer left due to personal circumstances, and Mauricio Schneider joined.”
(September 2016)
