Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale-KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas - Day 1

Gavin Rossdale with Gwen Stefani at the Live Performance by The Pussycat Dolls Hosted by Maxim Magazine - Arrivals

Gavin Rossdale returning from a walk with his dog Winston

Gavin Rossdale-Versace after show party San Lorenzo London- Odeon Leicester Square-

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Marry in London -September 14, 2002

Gavin & Winston arrive

Gavin talked to Pat O'Brien about the wedding and more
Gwen on her way to her wedding

G&G wed at a traditional ceremony at St Paul's Church in London's Covent Gardens amid family and close friends - including members of her No Doubt family. The stunning rock couple looked forever happy and beautiful - especially Gwen in a cream and pink John Galliano gown.

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Gwen Stefani And Gavin Rossdale In London

Gavin Rossdale-Kerrang Awards 2002 in London

Gwen and Gavin shopping

Bush/Gavin Rossdale Vilar de Mouros Festival

Bush Gavin Rossdale Amazing Mosh Crowd Surf @ Portugal-Vilar de Mouros Festival, 2002

Bush - Greedy Fly Live LAST SHOW EVER!! Portugal 2002

Bush - Swallowed Live LAST SHOW EVER!! Portugal 2002



Vilar de Mouros Festival,
Vilar de Mouros,
Caminha,
Portugal

Gavin Rossdale/Bush at the Vilar de Mouros festival, Portugal

Glastonbury 2002-Bush star Gavin Rossdale gets to know the crowd

Bush's Rossdale Goes Solo For 'XXX' Movie Track

Bush's Gavin Rossdale has laid down vocals for a track written by songwriter/producer Glen Ballard for the forthcoming XXX soundtrack album. The movie stars Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson, and it's slated for an August 9 release.
"[It was] such a trip playing and singing with different people in a different environment," wrote Rossdale on the Bush website's online journal. "It's not a Bush thing--it's going under my name, but I got some cool help [A Perfect Circle and Vandals drummer] Josh Freese, Joel Scheer, and a guy called Lance--all really good and natural."
Rossdale added, "It was cool to play with them." A video for the still-to-be-titled song is currently in production.
-- Darren Davis, New York

Gavin Rossdale of Bush attends Ozwald Boateng's Jubilee party in Saville Row.

Bush Replaces Departed Guitarist Pulsford

Gavin Rossdale and his band Bush have decided that Chris Traynor will replace founding member and guitarist Nigel Pulsford. Traynor was formerly the guitarist for Helmet and had been filling in for Pulsford since the birth of his child.
In his website journal, bush-music.com, Rossdale wrote about the change. “It was everything to have Nigel in the band. He brought me so much. He brought us all so much. What a superb guitar player. I will always be deeply connected and grateful to him…We have had no arguments, no falling out[s], no loss of respect--just perhaps a common goal.”
As for Traynor, Rossdale wrote, “He has done so much for us out here [touring the U.S.]. Nigel could not tour--imagine if we had to wait for ages to find the right guy? Chris actually slipped in real easy, and he’s so easy-going. It’s always been no problem. It’s crazy really.”
Rossdale also said that he wants to at least make one more album with Bush and that he won’t let the band die so easily.
Before joining Bush to complete its mega-hit album Sixteen Stone, Pulsford was in King Blank and the Ian Lowery Group.
-- Darren Davis, New York

Gavin Rossdale

Interview by Will Hodgkinson
Friday May 3, 2002The Guardian

Lead singer of Bush, sometime boyfriend of Gwen Stefani and international resident of LA and London NW1, Gavin Rossdale has the kind of professional sheen that goes down well in the States, where his band play stadiums. He is polite, handsome, friendly to all, and has a rug-like dog that snarls at you if you approach it with too much caution. He also knows how to chat openly without actually giving too much away.

"There are two records that are particularly important to me," he says, holding his six-foot frame with the kind of confidence rarely seen outside of stadium-rock circles. "The first would be Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse, who were the first reggae band I heard. It's a consummate, brilliant, amazing record. The second is by two guys called David and David, who had an album called Boomtown. This is, like, dub country. They're American, and they did this one record before they broke up." Rossdale grew up listening to Germ Free Adolescence by teen punks X-Ray Spex, who were led by the colourful Poly Styrene, later a devotee of Hare Krishna.
"With X-Ray Spex it was all about the lyrics and the melody," he says. "They were singing about genetic engineering 30 years before Total Recall and The Terminator. She sang on the last record we did and she was brilliant - I rudely called her Poly but I know it's really Sag Gita or something."

Other records that informed Rossdale's adolescent mind included the first album by the Clash and Imitation of Christ by Psychedelic Furs. "That was the first stuff I liked - punk stuff and reggae - so that was my introduction to music and it had a deep impact on me. Punk now is seen as idiots on Carnaby Street from Milan shouting, 'Vive le punk,' which is a shame." The logical progression from those two styles, therefore, was PiL. "Metal Box was the first record I heard that sounded truly subversive," he says. "Jah Wobble was my king."

Then came the late-1980s indie period which provided a soundtrack to the life of many a white boy's life, as well as the initial inspiration for Bush. "Surfer Rosa by the Pixies was the American side of that time, and Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine was the English side. I really liked the Throwing Muses as well - I thought that 4AD [the record label] was this really wacky, strange world filled with interesting people, and out of that scene the Pixies were the most melodic. They had a great sense of humour. There was that line, 'Uriah hit the crapper' - I think he was talking about the death of certain elements of rock, but I'm probably wrong. But they were playful - they had a Dick Dale surfer sound, and there was an element of tongue-in-cheek. I loved the Pixies."

Two American segments of Rossdale's musical orange are Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits. "Beefheart is much funkier that you'd imagine - you have the difficult records like Trout Mask Replica, but on albums like Spotlight Kid you can hear the beginnings of all those bands like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. He spawned Tom Waits, who he was always really angry with, but Tom Waits' Rain Dogs was the album that I listened to when lyrics were dominant for me - he still blows me away with these songs that are like miniature movies or Raymond Carver stories."

The best bands always come along and destroy what came before them, and in the early 1990s, the Stone Roses managed to change everything. "I remember watching that first video of I Wanna Be Adored, thinking, 'What is this?' That's almost the best praise you can give a band - to be fascinated and disorientated by them."

Both Nick Cave and Polly Harvey are also favourites. "Nick Cave had that smack-soaked, debauched history with The Birthday Party, but then he went on to make beautiful solo records like Your Funeral, My Trial and The Boatman's Call. I find them much more listenable than the Birthday Party, who I missed out on at the time. As for Polly Harvey, I like all her records, but Rid of Me is my favourite." Does he know her? "No. I've been in the same room as her, and heard about her through our producer Steve Albini. She probably thinks I'm scum."

Among the more recent releases Rossdale has been enjoying is Druqks by the Aphex Twin, and Agaetis Byrjun by Icelandic four-piece Sigur Ros. "I like Aphex because he's the laziest man in music. He DJs from a sofa. He sampled his mum and dad leaving a message on his answerphone. As for Sigur Ros, me and Gwen went to see them in the States. We sat there for two and a half hours in this theatre and this guy came on and played guitar with a bow. Two and a half hours in, it's less good. But they are amazing."

Special mention goes to Jeff Buckley's album Grace. "I discovered him at Reading one year. I was wandering around and heard his singing coming out of one of the tents. It was one of those biblical, ethereal moments of knowing that you have made a great discovery. Then he drowned drunk. What a waste."

Gavin Rossdale-Music Midtown 2002 - Atlanta

Gavin Rossdale blacks out as he walks offstage during US tour...

BUSH singer GAVIN ROSSDALE had to be given oxygen after collapsing within seconds of leaving the stage on the band's current US tour.

The band had just finished playing their encore at the Central Michigan University on Thursday (April 13), when Rossdale collapsed and fell into the arms of his security officer.

Rossdale was taken backstage by security guards, where he remained unconscious for approximately one minute. On regaining consciousness, the singer then refused to go to hospital, and instead was given oxygen for approximately twenty minutes.

A spokesperson for Bush told nme.com that Rossdale was now feeling: "much better" following the incident. She added that it was unclear why he collapsed, as the singer was not dehydrated, was feeling no flu symptoms and had never blacked out before. He will now undertake a series of tests to establish what happened, although no date has been finalised for the tests.

Bush are currently on a US college tour with Moby, which continues through to the end of April. None of the other dates on the tour have been affected.

This latest incident comes only weeks after the band finished a calamitous tour of the UK. Guitarist Nigel Pulsford fractured his ankle after falling off the stage whilst performing a gig at the Norwich UEA on March 7, and their March tour was originally rescheduled from the previous November, when the band postponed their entire tour because of "unforseen promotional demands on the band's time."

On the rearranged dates not only did Pulsford fracture his ankle, but the Manchester and Norwich legs had to be rearranged for a second time, due to problems with Gavin Rossdale's throat.

Gavin Rossdale/Bush Golden State Tour 2002 - San Francisco

Gavin Rossdale during the band's Universal Amphitheatre show in Southern California

The spotlight falls on Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale during the band's Universal Amphitheatre show in Southern California April 3, 2002. (Photo: Jen Lowery)

Gavin Rossdale/Bush Golden State Tour 2002 - San Francisco