About Crossfire

There are multiple band names that used the name Crossfire, but there's only one of these groups that actually mattered. They were of course the Australian Jazz Fusion band from the 70's and 80's. In 1975 Jim and Mick Kenny formed Crossfire, Australia's most successful jazz-rock fusion band. Crossfire toured extensively and cut seven Albums, including a live album with American singer Michael Franks and Australia's first direct-to-disc LP. In 1990 Jim moved to Lismore where he took up the position of Head of Guitar Studies at Southern Cross University. He has released five solo Albums and has written a guitar instruction book, The Dominant Seventh Chord and Then the Blues . As well as being a guest clinician at teaching institutions throughout Australia, Jim remains a popular performer at major jazz venues and festivals. Now renowned jazz guitarist Jim Kelly presents the new Crossfire with four of it's original members... Jim - electric guitar, Tony Buchanan - saxes, Ian Bloxsom - percussion and Greg Lyon - electric bass. The new additions to the outfit are keyboardist Steve Russell and drummer Scott Hills. There are at least 14 bands using the name Crossfire. 01. A metal band from Belgium 02. A metal band from Ankara, Turkey 03. Drum and Bass DJ from Europe 04. A jazz fusion band from Australia 05. A blues band from Northern Ireland 06. A metal band from Ecuador 07. A glam metal band from Israel 08. A punk/ska band from Scotland 09. A straight edge punk band from the United Kingdom 10. An Alternative/Punk Rock band from the UK 11. A psychobilly/punkabilly band from Japan. 12. A teddy boy rockabilly band from Sweden. 13. A ballad rock band from Malaysia. 14. A krautrock group from Germany. . 1) The earlier Crossfire was formed in 1981Belgium (Aalst, East Flanders). They played Speed metal/heavy metal comparable to Accept, Krokus and other 80's acts. They were originally a punk band called "The Onion Dolls". After some local success, they had four tracks featured on the compilation album "Metal Clogs" with other Belgian metal acts, released by Rave-On records, and then went on to record their debut full length in 1983, titled : "See You in Hell". The band released several other albums and had some considerable local success in Europe. They split up in 1987. For more Crossfire info, check out their page on http://www.metal-archives.com/ 2) The modern metal band, Crossfire was formed by guitarist Kaya Sevinc in 1999 spending 3 years to constrain it's original line up and it's sound which has slowly emerged as one of the greatest hope for Heavy Metal in Turkey. Crossfire honed their sound by combining power and thrash metal with the classical metal approach. Their 2002 Decisions of Hate demo was an underground favorite that lead them to hit the road for a massive gig including 2003 Metal Bash Fest in Hamburg Germany. The band's performance in Germany resulted as joining "The Revivalry - A Tribute To Running Wild" released by Remedy Records in 2005 with Beggars' Night. The band released their debut album "Aggression Treaty" with a magnificient gala, hailing the 90th anniversary of the 'Canakkale Victory of Turkish Independence War' with many foreign and Turkish fans on the 18th of March 2005, Canakkale. In 2005 after the Besli Brothers had left the band, Crossfire decided to continue their vision for more creative and multi-faceted metal sound with the new line-Up Kaya Sevinc, Ugur Aksoy, Kemal Sozer and Cem Saydam. During the festivals in 2005 sometimes under the headliners Slayer ,Manowar, In Flames, Doro, Over Kill, sometimes as the headliner itself the band have pleased the ear of thousands of metal fans and at the same time have solidified their place in the realm of modern metal's elite hierarchy in Turkey. Also Crossfire was confirmed for Bulgarian Monsters Of Rock festival. East Europe's biggest open air festival will take place in Varna, Bulgaria between 01 - 09 August 2006. 3) The DJ, Crossfire started producing music at age of 17. And after a couple of years of complete focus, he finally got some recognition from the infamous Dj Trace (DSCI4). Trace signed his track Hydra (on Spy Technologies LP) for his label, DSCI4. The track Hydra crawled into the playlists of Ed Rush & Optical, Dkay, Black Sun Empire, Paul B, and many others... Quickly a release on Ryme Tyme's 1210 - label followed, with the tunes Hideout & Swordfight (1210 006). Soon thereafter Trace decided to give Crossfire his own 12'' on Dsci4, Counterforce & Firebolt (DSCI4 008), the tune Counterforce also got played out a lot by the ones like: Dj Bailey, Loxy, Ink, Klute, Paul B etc... Bookings came in and the name Crossfire started to ring a bell in the mind of a lot of the tech step - lovers. He got booked in Swizz, Austria, Germany (Kings Of The Jungle), Holland, France, Italy, UK, Estonia... Although his records were doing well, Crossfire wanted to push the limits a little further, so, he decided to start his own imprint: Crossfire Recording. 4) The Australian fusion band Crossfire was formed by guitarist Jim Kelly, keyboard player keyboardist Michael Kenny, and percussionist Ian Bloxsom. Additional band members included Tony Buchanan (flutes), Don Reid (sax/flutes), Phil Crorgie (bass), Greg Lyon (bass), Doug Gallacher (drums), and Steve Hopes (drums/syncussion). Crossfire toured extensively, including a performance at The Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1982, and recorded seven albums including a live album with U.S. vocalist Michael Franks. Crossfire also performed on collaborative tours with Lee Ritenour, Don Grusin, and Randy Brecker. 5) Crossfire, the Blues band [Northern Ireland] was formed in 2005 by chance meetings. The band collectively have several years experience and include members from BAD ASS BLUES BAND, BLACK CAT BONE, JOHN PLAYER BLUES BAND and the 80's Ska band, THE SELECTER ." Members have also performed (over the years) with James Hunter, Little George Suref, Big Joe Louis, Phil Guy (Buddy's brother),John Mayall, Rico Rodriguez (reggae legend now featured with the Jools Holland band) They have played the Monaghan blues festival , Cork Jazz, Templebar, and Castlebar music festivals as well as the International Rory Gallagher festival, Ballyshannon to name but a few. Crossfire [Ireland] are Des Campbell [Drums&Percussion], Cris Gill [Guitar & Keyboard]& Gary Fleming [Bass&Vocals]. 6) Exist another band called CROSSFIRE formed in Ecuador, their music style is a romantic heavy metal is a perfect mix between great lyrics and excellent heavy metal sound 7) Another Crossfire is Israeli hard rock/glam metal band CROSSFIRE, playing 80s influenced glam metal music, and features guitar virtuoso Gilad Pasternak (Dr. Kasper's Rabbit Show). 8) Crossfire from Glasgow, Scotland, http://www.myspace.com/crossfireglasgow. A punk/ska band formed in 2007. Features members of Ex-Cathedra, Prairie Dugz, United Front & sometimes The Plimptons. Supported the likes of Street Dogs, Real McKenzies & Left Alone. Their new album "Back Tae Auld Claes and Porridge" is out now. 9) Crossfire is a straight edge hardcore band formed in 1987 from the UK 10) Formed in August 2009, cousins Josh and Karl Wunderlich joined with Josh's close schoolmate Xander Avery to make the three-piece punks, Crossfire; "Our main goal was to be something different, so we thought about what we liked and disliked in our favourite bands. We decided that we should try and never do two songs that sound similar and, in the process, developed a sound that's filled many different influences and genres, yet keeping a familiar pop-punk identity" ...To be honest, it was more like, "Three friends had a revelation and realised that they all played instruments, so they made a band. And named themselves after a map in COD4." 14) Crossfire was a Krautrock band formed on Lünen, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany by Egbert Theissen (guitar, vocals, bass), Rainer Mussmann (guitar), Burghard Netthöfel (bass, vocals, guitar), Klaus-Dieter Junke (organ, piano, string ensemble), Udo Winkler (drums, percussion), Helmut Philipps (congas, timbales, percussion, drums) and Jochen Vetter (drums, 1981). They released a sole album, Colourful Music, on 1979.