Bio

In true Rock ‘N’ Roll style, 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.

•Bass/Vocals – Cliff Wilkinson

•Guitar – Tony Evered

•Guitar – Ian Lowe

•Drums – Lee Duncan

Rough Justice had been formed…

Cliff took over lead vocals and the song writing began. Amazingly some of those early written songs have been performed over and over again by ant different bands, and we still perform them today. The band started recording in Teddington, the then “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 Cliffs younger brother, Neil who played Guitar. The old set was rehearsed and a mixture of covers were added in, so the band could start gigging again. A lot of gigs 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 near to no persuading 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.