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Their debut album ‘Storm Front Round One’ featured eleven hard rocking tracks full of raunchy lyrics and wailing guitar solos. The controversy surrounding the video to the lead single SLEAZE helped raise the bands profile to a national level.

Storm Front hit the road on the SLEAZE tour dazzling audiences with their energetic, adrenalized live shows. Deen ‘Slut’ Tracy eventually left the band and was replaced by former Tantrum Drummer Tusker Patterson. The band continued to play live and work on new material before eventually disbanding.

After the Break-up, John helped produce Keith’s solo album ‘Above the Rain’. The album showcased the ballads that Keith & John had written over the years. They struck a deal to have the album included with the official Tamworth Music Festival Guide. As a result, in one week 25,000 music fans took home a copy of ‘Above the Rain’ making it one of the most widely owned, fastest moving independent CD’s in Australia. In 2007 Keith & John reformed Storm Front with virtuoso rhythm section Dean Gaudoin (Bass) and Daniel Luttick (Drums) to join former MR BIG vocalist Eric Martin on his first Australian tour. Storm Front not only served as the support act but also as Eric Martins backing band.

Here’s what Eric had to say about the Band:

John McNamara – Cheers to my new best friend on the planet. Thank you so much for bringing me to Australia as a promoter and playing guitar and singing for me. I love your style brother; I don’t mean the way you dress even though you make the rest of us look like bargain basement mannequins but it’s your aggressive swagger, clever riffing and black & blues tone that slays me. This whole touring thing was your brain child with having great musicians in different countries back me up. Denise and I helped make your plan work and it has been very successful. Thank you and your wife (Hot!!…sorry Johnny) Sheila for getting this snow ball rolling. Your Father and Mother have got to be the most down to earth people that I have ever met; I love ‘em (you too Keith). I really had the most wonderful time in OZ; we had a lot of laughs and rocked hard. It doesn’t get any better than this folks.

Keith McNamara – Holy stage presence bat dog!!! Keif me old china, you can sing, dance (Don’t dance with me….(inside joke)), rap to the audience, converse with the club owners, flirt with the girls, drink with the men, bring the house down with a scream and party like its 1999….uhm 2008. Hey look I know I can sing but if I had your presence I would be packin’ them in at the shows. Break a leg with the musical theatre and thanks for singing the harmonies with me on my tour down under.

Dean Gaudoin – when you hear the words “It’s a bird or a plane and faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound” you think of the comic book figure known as Superman. Well for all of us mere mortals out here in the jungle…one man stands alone. It’s the bass wielding, black clad avenger known throughout Europe, Asia and parts of Melbourne as “Gaudoin” (French accent applied). You’re one hell of a bass player Mr. Suave, cool, schooled, calm and collected. I know that you’re going to be embarrassed but it’s a plain fact…Chicks dig you! All Danny and I could do is smirk…how the hell do you do it kid. You’re Gaudoin for god sake; you’re in a whole different league than the rest of us wallflowers. Well it was my pleasure to grace the stage with you and your magical powers your hipness.

Dan “Danny” Luttick – “Double trouble” and I don’t just mean his amazing double bass kicking ability, nope I’m talking about an incredible hard rock drummer with a strong willed bad ass personality. You mess with this youngster and you get the horns or a fistful of dynamite. When that jerk-off through a pint of ice cream at you from his 20th floor penthouse apartment in the Gold Coast (sorry for laughing) and it landed at your feet…man I thought you were going to get all nuclear on his ass. Danny boy you’re a superb drummer and I hail you for being no nonsense kind of blokey. You are truly one of the great ones, Virgil Donati would be proud of one of his best pupils. I recommend this cobber to the highest bidder.

The band then joined American Rocker Jeff Scott Soto (Journey, Talisman, Malmsteen) on another national tour of Australia. .