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competition and eventually a letter came through saying: "Congratulations, you've made it through to the
Bristol heats!" Their first performance at that contest was on 2 May 1981 and they arrived to the final. Jaguar got a good reaction from the judges and they came fourth. This result and their demo
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Now the completed work consisted of six songs on a demo track tape. The songs were "Stormchild" (Cox); "Ain't No
Fantasy" (Pepperd); "War Machine" (Pepperd); "Battlecry" (Cox/Pepperd) "Feel The Heat" (Pepperd); and "Piledriver" (Cox/Pepperd). The demo was sold to the public through an ad in the music
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Dave Wood, who proposed to release the band's next single through his label. Jaguar signed the deal with Neat
Records and replaced Reiss with Paul Merrell, former vocalist from the band Stormtrooper, just in time for the recording of the single "Axe Crazy", which was released later in 1982. After
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The band was formed in
December 1979 in Bristol through an advertisement published in a local newspaper by Jeff Cox and Garry Pepperd looking for a drummer. The original line-up consisted of Garry Pepperd (guitar), Jeff Cox (bass, vocals) and Chris Lovell (drums). The same year they went straight
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were "Feel the Heat", "Battle Cry" and "Piledriver". In April 1980, they put out another advertisement for a vocalist, to which Rob Reiss answered joining the band. In
December 1980, the band went into another studio, Studio 34, and recorded another demo, which they later put together with the
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in Europe and Japan, and the successful re-release of their first album in those regions, Jaguar reformed in 1999, with the modified line-up of
Pepperd, Jeff Cox, Nathan Cox on drums and the new vocalist Jamie Manton. An appearance at
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ad put Jaguar in contact with the Dutch fan and promoter Frits
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previous demo tracks. The band added now three new demo tracks to the previous ones. The new tracks were "Stormchild", "Ain't no
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often featured Jaguar in its pages and the magazine's owner, a man named 'Metal Mike', became later the band's promoter in that country.
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followed in 2000, after which Jeff Cox left the band to concentrate on solo material and family life. He was replaced by Darren Furze.
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into Sound Conception Studios to record their first demo, which was finished on 22 March 1980. The songs recorded on their first
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