Rough Justice

We are Rough Justice

BIO

Rough Justice is a three Piece Rock band based in the West London area. The band has a history going back more than 40 years.

In true Rock ‘N’ Roll style, The original Rough Justice started out of a total dislike of another band member. It was 1975 in a rehearsal room at the boathouse in Kingston Surrey, where four young ambitious musos in a band called ‘Free Agent’ decided that a fifth member (the singer) needed to leave for his own health, and then there were four: Cliff Wilkinson, Tony Evered, Ian Lowe and Lee Duncan.
Rough Justice had been formed… Cliff took over lead vocals and the song writing began. Amazingly some of those early original songs have been performed over and over again by many different bands, and are still performed by us to this date.
The band started recording in Teddington, the then in “Thames Television Studio’s”. Some of those early cassettes (yes cassettes) have still survived to this day. Rough Justice constantly gigged and created quite the following, but after a time both Ian and Lee decided to call it a day, so new blood had to be found. Enter Bob Williams on Guitar, and Dennis on Drums. That line-up played until 1980 with everyone then going their own way.
In 1990 Tony, Cliff and Bob decided to reform the band and were joined by Pete on Drums and a bit of brotherly love, Neil on Guitar. The old set was rehearsed and a mixture of covers were added in, and the band started gigging again. A lot of venues were played over the next few years, but for many different reasons we again decided to go our own ways.
Skip to 2015, Cliff being bored with the industry and playing the same old cover songs, contacted Tony with the idea of reforming a Rough Justice line-up. It took almost no persuasion to convince Tony and Neil to come back on board. We dug out the old back catalogue of songs; some stayed the same where others needed re-writing. Most of which we pursued over the next few months. Time for a Drummer! Through a mutual friend, along came a perfect fit in the form of a mad drummer named Cliff Shipman (two Cliffs in one band, yes that gets confusing). With a great live set of Rough Justice originals and classic covers, the band is back to its very best.
Unfortunately, in 2017 Tony Evered left the band, turning Rough Justice into a three piece! Occasionally we become a four piece with old member Bob Williams contributing. The band continues with additional new material. After all the years and History we now have a marriage of great songs. Come and Listen. Something old, something new, something borrowed and some Blues.