Public Domain

Last year, PUBLIC DOMAIN\'S \'Operation Blade\' entered the UK national charts at No.5, achieving a silver disc, and went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. It entered the German National charts at no. 4 (gold disc), went double platinum in Australia, reached #9 in Italy and has appeared in over 220 compilation albums worldwide. Not bad for a debut single.

Even more surprisingly \'Operation Blade\' was the first track PUBLIC DOMAIN ever recorded together. "It was written for dance clubs and DJs," explains Mallorca Lee, the group\'s charismatic frontman. "The fact that the music was written just through a passion for that type of music, be it hard house, techno, whatever, that\'s what made it good."

An experienced performer and dance music producer, Lee was the last member to join PUBLIC DOMAIN, who are Glasgow based. Before PUBLIC DOMAIN, Lee was in the band Ultra-Sonic, an established band internationally who toured extensively around the world. Like Lee, the other three, Alistair MacIsaac, James Allan and Mark Sherry, have dedicated much of their pre-Domain lives to music. MacIsaac, the self-styled \'daddy\' of the band, has been DJ-ing throughout Scotland for most of the last 17 years, spinning everything from Northern Soul and vintage disco through to early Detroit techno and Chicago House, Acid House and, most recently, Hard House. He\'s played huge raves and he\'s rocked towns everywhere throughout the UK. He hates it when music gets pigeonholed. "I\'m open-minded," he says, "there\'s only two kinds of records, a good record or a bad record."

Mark Sherry has already tasted fame. A respected club DJ who has his own show on Glasgow\'s influential West FM radio station, Sherry cut his rave teeth performing in a band called The Casio Brothers with fellow DJ Trevor Riley, and played arena parties such as Resurrection at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh.

MacIsaac had often seen Sherry DJ at clubs such as the legendary Hangar 13. Over a few beers one Sunday afternoon, MacIsaac asked Sherry if he\'d like to get involved with the recording sessions he\'d started having with Allan in one of the studios where MacIsaac worked. "Why not?" thought Sherry. They began working on what would eventually be \'Operation Blade\' in late 1998, its hard jagged acid melody sampled from a remix of the New Order track \'Confusion\' which had been used in the opening scenes of futurist vampire flick Blade, a PUBLIC DOMAIN favourite. And their name PUBLIC DOMAIN? Its meaning, "Open to everyone", and if you have ever been to a PUBLIC DOMAIN live performance, you\'ll know what it means.

They have toured extensively worldwide, including a Russian dance fortress two miles out to sea, sell out tours of Australia, New Zealand, two performances at Privilege in Ibiza, the largest production that had been on the island for the Radio 1 week and every major UK festival last year.

NME's Best Act Homelands 2001; 80,000 people at Dancevalley; Gatecrasher\'s first ever televised club event; and the infamous performance at Dancestar Awards that was broadcast worldwide. All chapters in the live phenomenon that is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

This year has seen the recording of the second album, remixes for such artistes as Yves Deruyter and ATB, and more outings for the Public Domain Sound System using state of the art graphics, lasers and experimenting with 3D visual holographics.

You know what to expect from these boys - the finest of Scottish Hard house with more energy than an 18 year old male virgin with a fistful of Viagra's at his local whorehouse.