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S. (voice): Ex singer of the “Brazen”, metal-cross-over,
female band, that played for 7 years in lots of clubs and Festivals
around Italy as: Transilvania Live (Milano), Indian saloon (Milano),
Agglutination Festival (Potenza) etc, etc.
-e-mail: charlotte.web@libero.it
Dario Orlando (guitar) He
began to play guitar at the age of 16. He studied for 8 years with
different private teachers. One of the most important was Salvatore
Russo (www.salvatorerusso.net) At the age of 18, Dario began to
play in different cover-bands playing different kind of music (rock,
rock blues, heavy metal, trash metal, funk and fusion). He performed
in lot of gigs all around Italy. His major artistic influences are
Jimi Hendrix, Richie Kotzen, Greg Howe, Nuno Bettencourt, Yngwie
J. Malmsteen, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith. In June 2005 he assembled
“The Upper-Class Bastards” together with Miss Charlotte.
At the moment he also play in some Turin tribute-bands, he gives
private guitar lessons and he keep on studying guitar as autodidact.
-e-mail: dario@musicistiweb.com
-web: http://www.myspace.com/darioorlando
Paul McKill (bass guitar):
Bass player and mind of “Motorcity-brags” and member of “Bloody
Roses” (Guns and Roses tribute). He played in different places all
around Europe and he collaborated with artists as: Steven Adler
(Guns and Roses) and Adam Bomb.
Pedro (drums)
Danilo Bar (guitar): He played with different
artists of The Italian metal scene as: Venice in Vain and White
Skull, band he’s still playing with. With these ones he performed
at the “Gods Of Metal”2006.
After recording a promo-cd : “Crash Test”
, Pedro has been replaced with Mr.Gee,
a drummer trained at the NUM Academy of Tullio De Piscopo.
-e-mail: mr.gee@libero.it
-web: www.myspace.com/gee_zippo
Unfortunately because of some important engagement, of 2 guys of
the band, there’s another change of line up. Paul actually has been
recruited by Adam Bomb for a European tour and Danilo, have to face
some new and irrevocable engagement with the White Skull, so it
becomes necessary to make some new replacement.
Now the band decides to keep a 4 people set up and to recruit Matt
Richards, as bass player. Imported from Glasgow, he is a
bass and guitar player. He played since 1993 in different bands
: “S.O.L.” (Jethro Tull tribute – guitar keyboards and flute),“Kings
of pain” (Police tribute –guitar), “Reckless” (rock band from Bolzano,
- guitar), “Bloody Guns” (Guns ‘n’ Roses tribute–guitar), “Smoking
Colts (hard rock band from Torino, – bass guitar). Since 2007 “The
Upper-class Bastards” (hard rock from Torino,– bass guitar) His
artistic influences as bass player are: Paul Simonon, John Glascock,
John Paul Jones.
-e-mail: mrs78@libero.it
-web: www.myspace.com/mattrichards78

After few months,in june 2007, there comes the last “bastard”, and the guitarist Luca Espanico joined the band! He began to play guitar at the age of 12, studying electric, classical and acoustic guitar.
He attended the conservatory G. Verdi of Torino and he participated to differents seminaries of classical guitar and lute of the teachers Pierluigi Cimma, Wolfgang Landle, Alirio Diaz, Hopkinson Smith… He has the graduations of “theory and solfeggio”, “harmony and history of music” and “8th year” (of classical guitar). He plays classical guitar with different concert orchestras, and plays electric guitar with “The Upper-Class Bastards”.
Here the final line up:
Charlotte S. voice, Dario Orlando guitar, Luca Espanico rhythmic guitar, Mr.Gee
drums, Matt Richards bass guitar.

On our credits: different concerts done with the old 4-people set up and with the new 5-people ensemble, two great open-up performances (for The glorious House of Lords as support band in their Italian tour, and for Glenn Huges, singer and bass player in Deep Purple and Black Sabbath), and a 3-days mini-tour in Switzerland
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