Former Terrorvision frontman Tony Wright is looking for chart success once more - with his new band Laika Dog.

The band has started rehearsals in Bradford to fine tune songs ready for the production of a CD at a studio in Doncaster, in a week's time.

Tony's tunes have been inspired by his time working as a dry-stone waller on the windswept moors above his home in Oldfield, near Keighley.

The former Carlton Bolling student, now 35, launched his new outfit earlier this year after meeting fellow waller, 19-year-old Paddy Morrall, his brother, Sim, 20, both of Oakworth, near Keighley and 21-year-old drummer and vocalist Michael Parr, of Keighley.

The band completed a six-gig tour, including London and the legendary Cavern in Liverpool, at the end of March.

Tony said: "It was brilliant. It was like a fresh start. The last gig with Terrorvision at Pennington's in Bradford was in front of a couple of thousand people - this time we were in front of about 300, but it was great.

"We broke the myth that this was just another Terrorvision gig - it wasn't. There were a lot of different people there.

"Afterwards people came up and said they wanted to hear the songs at home and had we anything recorded. We hadn't.

"This is very much a cottage industry and we have been selling T-shirts to finance the three days in the recording studio.

"So during the next tour we will have some CDs to sell."

Laika Dog will start their second tour, organised by promoters Northern Exposure, based in Manchester and Sheffield, in September. They will perform at similar venues.

"Hopefully people will find us and listen to the music despite the barrage of marketing that we have to compete with," Tony added.

Laika Dog has been named after the first dog to be launched into space by the Soviet Union.

Terrorvision played their last gig at Pennington's in Bradford on October 4, 2001 after 13 years together.