Vega (British band)

[2] Vega were formed following a meeting between Nick Workman, Dan Chantrey and twins James and Tom Martin at the Z Rock Festival at JBs in Dudley, 29/30 May 2009.

[4] It was during their time with Kryah (2004-2006) and The Station Club (2006-2009) that James and Tom first teamed up with Dan Chantrey, who played drums for both bands.

album Marcus Thurston became a bona fide member of the band, officially joining in February 2013.

[5] To promote Stereo Messiah Vega did a short four-date headlining tour in November 2014, and in December 2014 supported Joe Elliot's Down 'n' Outz.

[6] Vega had returned to Frontiers for Stereo Messiah as the band was dissatisfied with the promotion and limited release What the Hell!

[5] While writing material for Stereo Messiah some demos were sent to Frontiers Records and a three-album deal was signed.

[7] Also in 2016, Vega appeared at the Steelhouse Festival, 23–24 July 2016, and in Italy on 1 October headlined Melodic Rock Night at the Grindhouse Club, Padova.

[9] During 2017, Vega appeared in Derby at The Spot (28 January 2017) as part of a multi-band line-up,[10] and then appeared (as part of a multi-band line-up) at Planet Rock's Winter's End festival at Sandford Holiday Park, Poole, Dorset between 24–26 February 2017, performing on the 26th.

[3] Vega appeared (as part of a multi-band line-up) at Nordic Noise in Copenhagen on 12 May 2017 and then at the Amplified Festival, Gloucestershire on Saturday 23 July.

[12] On 30 June 2017, the band announced that at their September headline shows a limited edition CD of previously unreleased demo tracks would be available for purchase.

[13] On 28 July, Vega announced on their official Facebook page a new drummer, Martin John Hutchison, also known as "Hutch".

Promotional material for the 12-track album listed a sixth band member for the first time, MyKey Kew, on guitar and backing vocals.

On 5 March 2018, Red Sand PR issued a press release announcing that following an appearance at the Wildfire Festival in Scotland on 23 June, the band with special guests Midnite City would commence a UK tour starting in Manchester (Ruby Lounge) on 26 June and concluding in London (Camden Underworld) on 7 July.

In December 2019, and to celebrate ten years of VEGA, the band recorded and released a new version of their first single, "Kiss Of Life".

Prior to COVID-19, the band were to tour throughout 2020, with scheduled dates including support slots for Magnum in Germany, Italy and Switzerland in May.

[21] In an interview with Midlands Rocks Radio, Nick Workman likened the band sound/style to that of classic era Bon Jovi/Def Leppard with a few other smaller influences in the mix.

He lists his vocal influences as Ray Gillen (Badlands), Joe Elliott, Kip Winger and Joey Tempest.

[4] During an interview for Rock Radio NI, on the subject of Vega's songwriting style, Workman said: "Normally what will happen is that either one or both of them (Martin twins) will come up with a backing track and they'll send it over to me and I'll always do the lyrics and melodies for it.