This band is NOT a new band
they have been a band since 2008
This band started as a band called “Red Shadow” With Julia Pierce, Mariana Vartanyan, Nia Lovelis and Miranda Miller
Their most notable show was at The Roxy, where the band continued to play until 2014
Mariana then departed (either kicked out or left) and Rena joined the band as a temp bassist, and their name changed to Cherri Bomb
This was the arrangement for 5 years almost. Nia and Rena’s mother Ana was also their manager throughout this time, and it is thought she was involved with Mariana leaving.
Whilst this was happening and for the next few years, Ana Lovelis was trying to get her family a reality TV show called “True Lovelis” however this failed.
True Lovelis later becomes the name of Ana’s podcast.
Cherri Bomb was signed to Hollywood Records, with Samantha Maloney as their official manager, and released an EP called Stark, which featured a cover of the song “The Pretender” by The Foo Fighters.
They also went on to tour with The Foo Fighters and many other bands. They had planned to tour with Smashing Pumpkins however this never went ahead due to reasons below. (Bush, Camp Freddy, Filter, Foo Fighters, The Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Steel Panther and Lostprophets*)
*( There is much drama involving this band, or more specifically Ian Watkins. He is a convicted child rapist, and molested a baby. Rena has continued to defend him and his actions because they are friends. Lostprophets slept on their tour bus one night during Warped Tour.)
They released an album called This Is The End Of Control, which charted on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums, and their song Shake The Ground got featured on the Avengers soundtrack.
They were at Warped Tour 2012, and also went to Reading and Leeds festival UK.
In January 2013, Rena, Nia and Miranda announced on facebook that Cherri Bomb had left Julia. Julia later posted that this was not her decision, and it was a shame things ended up that way. (On the day the status was posted by Cherri Bomb, the official account password had been changed and Julia had no way of accessing the Cherri Bomb account. She could also not contact the girls during this time. However, Nia did get in contact ONCE after this happened.)
Rena then took over as front women and the band continued, playing songs from TITEOC and even playing “The Great Betrayer” which is one of their old songs.
Casey soon joined the band, as Nia, Rena and Miranda had been playing with him before Julia has been removed.
There is much controversy surrounding Julia’s departure, however it has been confirmed by Julia herself, (along with others that were friends with the band), that she was kicked out of the band.
Similar to Mariana, it is thought that Ana Lovelis is involved in Julia’s departure also.
After Julia was kicked out, the band was dropped from Hollywood Records, due to them violating their contract.
Their manager (Sam) had left months prior to this, due to the angst in the band.
Cherri Bomb ceased to get signed or picked up for 2 years, and went through a long process of rebuilding their career.
Nia and Rena became presenters on Revolt TV, which is a very small rock channel and magazine. Cherri Bomb played once. They wrote songs during this time - Creepin’, Scars…
In 2014/15, they officially resurfaced with their first official original in 3 years “This Is Why”
They were also posting covers on their youtube channel during this time.
Their new sound was very pop compared, however still kept their punk/rock origins.
In 2015, they got picked up by 5 Seconds of Summer, and signed to Capitol and Hi or Hey Records. This lead to their EP “I Can Feel It”
However, they did not write their single.
Some time during their tour with 5SOS, Rena decided to stop playing bass so she could focus on her singing.
She also took out her dreads and has permanently kept them out. (There has been lots of drama surrounding this also, with people asking her to remove her dreads due to cultural appropriation/finding them offensive to their culture and rena also retweeting a tweet saying “rena doesnt care about your ‘#blacklivesmatter’ “ ).
Since then, they have had many bassists play for them.
They toured with 5SOS for a few months while doing a 5-show tour themselves.
They also toured again with 5SOS in 2016, and in late 2016, they released their Brand New Moves EP
however there is a lot of drama around their songs “fuqboi”, “Guys my age” “makeup” and “pure”, due to fuqboi’s offensive nature, makeup which glorifies abusive relationships, guys my age which glorifies under age relationships, and pure which states you are unpure if you have had sex, and that sex cures you.
It was after this when they announced Iain Shipp would be joining their band, and they were officially classed as a pop band.
there are no public photos of mariana
Julias twitter is @/itsjuliapierce and she IS working on new music.
if you have any questions about the above, please message me, and if you wish, go through my blog or my tags, EVERYTHING is tagged very specifically, so you can find anything you wish to find.
