Justin Welsh is a musician from the UK best known for being the drummer in britpop band Elastica. Britpop is a British alternative rock movement from the mid 90s, characterised with the appearance of bands who borrowed many influences from 60s and 70s while creating big and catchy hooks, as well as the glamour of earlier pop stardom and the sense that they were creating the soundtrack to... Elastica - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Welsh was born in 1972 in Nuneaton, near Coventry. He was expelled from school for swearing at a teacher and moved to London in his late teens. He was a keen musician and even at that age he was also a noted regular recreational drug user. He played drums in a number of bands in the early 1990's including an early line up of Suede where he would first meet Justine Frishmann. He was the drummer of a garage rock band Spitfire for a number of years. He would join elastica in 1991 who would go on to have considerable chart and critical success in the 1990's. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Nuneaton is a town in the Nuneaton and Bedworth borough of northern Warwickshire in central England. ... Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... Alternate meanings: Suede (band); Suede (album). ... The term Spitfire can refer to: a euphemistic translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake, a warplane, see Supermarine Spitfire a ship, see HMS Spitfire a movie from 1934, see Spitfire (1934) The US title of the British 1942 film The First of the Few. ... Elastica - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...

Like the other members of elastica, he had some problems with drugs, although he is now said to be clean. The band split in 2001 and he now lives in Devon with former elastica keyboard player Mew to whom he is married. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... The word mew can have several meanings: An imitative word, also spelled meow or miaou, representing the cry of a cat or of sea-birds. ...