Sandy Hazard

Hazard cut his teeth as a teen in metal band Midnight Vice. Vice appeared on New Renaissance Records "Speed Metal Hell Volume 1" Before they were out of high school the band was offered a one album deal with New Renaissance and had appeared in Metal Forces, Enfer, Aardshok and several other zines. Hazard at the age of 19 joined Vancouver's Pretty Boy Floyd. The band put out an EP then expanded album "Bullets & Lipstik" through Bellaphon Records in Germany, Music Line in Canada, which received a full page KKKK review in Kerrang and reached the No.4 on the UK Import Rock charts and staying on the charts for a month. The band appeared in Hit Parader, Metal Edge, RIP, Rockstar magazines and was a top draw in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The band opened for Skid Row, Hurricane and signed with TKO Entertainment Management before disbanding in 1990 after enduring a legal battle with MCA records. Hazard shortly afterwards formed Grandma Moses with Mick Wood in 1991. Moses stormed the Vancouver scene winning best live band for CFOX FM 99's Vancouver Seeds competition. The band also appeared in Rock In The Rise column in Metal Edge magazine. Perris Records released the bands shelved album "Too Little Too Late" in 2004. in late 1994 a year after Moses broke up, Hazard was recruited to join Pop Punk band Mcrackins as "Spot Mcrackin" Mcrackins have been going strong off an on for 27 years. The band have released over 15 albums, appeared in a Molson Canadian commercial, a campy ski movie called "Downhill Willy" and have toured Europe 3 times most recently as a feature artist at Punk Raduno 4 in 2019. Hazard also played in punk band The Retreads while in Mcrackins who released two albums and opened for Good Riddance, Strung Out, AFI, Gob, SNFU, 22 Jacks. Present day Hazard and Wood rejoined forces in 2014 to form Dirtbag Republic. The band has released 3 albums and has been critically acclaimed in Classic Rock, Vive Le' Rock, Powerplay magazines. In 2018 Hazard recorded an album with Suicide Bombers front man Chris Damien Doll entitled "Doll Hazard - Transatlantic Meltdown" The album was recorded over 4000km apart over a 6 month period and released to critical acclaim in the underground rock scene. Hazard continues to play and record with Dirtbag Republic, Mcrackins and is releasing a solo album as Spot Mcrackin on Last Exit Records in Germany in 2022.