No Hot Ashes
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No Hot Ashes was a R&B band that was operated by a group of friends local to the Powell Estate. (PROSE: Meet Rose, Rose) For a period in March 2005, the band was renamed after much delibaration to Bad Wolf, inspired by graffiti seen in a car park on Jordan Street. However, this name did not last as the bandmembers considered it to be bad luck after the 5 March 2005 incident. (PROSE: Rose)
The band was run "mostly" for the laughs, as the band had no real musical ambition outside of playing at the Lamb & Flag once a month for £60. They rehearsed in the garage where Mickey Smith worked, and they often hung out in Mickey Smith's flat. (PROSE: Rose)
Members
By sometime around 2002, "Fittest Boy" Jimmy Stone played the bass guitar for the group, but he seemingly quit when he left to live with Rose Tyler in a bedsit. (PROSE: Meet Rose)
According to Cleo Proctor, Sally led No Hot Ashes, (AUDIO: Ghosts) however Mickey Smith seemed to be the heart and leader of the band. (PROSE: Rose) Sally was somewhat of a local celebrity. (AUDIO: Ghosts)
Mickey Smith also played the bass guitar for the group, and Big Bone Bill was able to fill in for Mickey. Other members included Sally Salter, Mook Jayasundera, and Patrice Okereke. (PROSE: Rose)
Name
The band was called No Hot Ashes, (PROSE: Meet Rose, AUDIO: Ghosts) though the name was later decided to be "rubbish", and upon the band's gig at the Brook in Camden, the members decided to "relaunch the brand", as suggested by Patrice, going through many names, including: Mickey and the Mooks, Family Hold Back, The Byzantine Exploration, Best Day Ever, Carbon Footprint, The Dazzlers, Glitch, Bum, If, Hope of the Hopeless, Bad Karma, Bad Future, Bad Timing, Bad Echo, Bad Dogs, and Bad Wolf. Bad Wolf was suggested by Sally after she saw the words graffitied on the car park on Jordan Road. It was the name that was ultimately chosen, though the band ditched it within a day due to them considering it to be bad luck following the 5 March 2005 incident, despite Sally remaining to like it. (PROSE: Rose)
History
Jimmy Stone was the bass guitarist in the group in around 2002. (PROSE: Meet Rose)
On 5 March 2005, they had a gig at the Brook in Camden, £100 for thirty minutes, and they spent the morning in the kitchen of Mickey Smith's flat coming up with a new name. They met up later a 6pm for a sound check.
In 2022, when Cleo Proctor and Shawna Thompson entered a sandwich shop to get a coffee, they received many telephone calls from the past, one of them being from Sally Salter, asking them if "[knew when] No Hot Ashes [was] playing". (AUDIO: Ghosts)
