WILEY FOX

"Guns'4'Hire became 'Wiley Fox' after the recruitment of guitarist 'Dave Togneri' and Jon changed to Guitar and that was it. We came about as Sweet'n'Innocent were starting to gig around Norwich and writing thier own material. Errol gave Jon and I the confidence to start our own band. We wanted to be first and, foremost a band who wrote original material. Something not often seen in the Norwich Heavy Rock scene at the time (although many bands were coming through at that point - The aforementioned S&I, 'Sullen Blaze', 'Witness', 'Rhetoric', 'Rosie Blue', Deviant, etc....).

It was so hard to get gigs as a band playing originals that we had to book 'The Jaquard' as a private venue, as no one would give us a chance. At that point to play most venues in Norwich you had to do 2 sets and we wanted to put on 'a show'. So we played with other bands who we would support (or they would support us), something now-a-days is taken pretty much for granted. We kept losing Drummers so that didn't help much before recruiting another Dave (so sorry can't remember your last name even though you were awesome) I left in 1991, replaced by the awesome Dave Martell (ex Llamedos L2R) - who left soon afterwards to form ' Monster' with Alex Boyall (ex Witness guitarist) 'Wiley Fox' then became 'Toke' and continued as a 3 piece. Dave Togneri and I (along with Pete Peruzzi from Rosie Blue), forming 'Uncle Louie'.

Wiley Fox took there influences from everywhere, from Punk, Hard Rock and Thrash, to Reggae, Delta Blues and Swing. We reformed in 2020. Although the intention was to do a single gig for old times sake - we've found that our older material has been consigned to the bin and we are writing and rehearsing a brand new set (with the odd oldie thrown in).

2022 line up retains 3 original members, of Dave T, Jon and myself our one time roadie and Rosie Blue bassist Dave Bagley and New drummer Paul Scroggins." GW 27/02/2022