Members:

Gavin Rossdale - lead vocals, guitar Dave Parsons – bass Robin Goodridge – drums, percussion Sacha Putnam – keyboards Chris Traynor – lead guitar during Golden State tour Nigel Pulsford – lead guitar

Bush was an alternative rock band from England, formed in 1992. Their debut album was the self-released Sixteen Stone in 1994.

The name Bush came about because they used to live in Shepherd's Bush, London. In Canada, they were once known as BushX, because the 1970s band Bush, led by Domenic Troiano, owned the Canadian rights to the name. In April 1997, it was announced that Troiano had agreed to let them use the name Bush in Canada without the letter X, in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Children's Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.

In late 1996 Bush released the first single "Swallowed" from their second album entitled Razorblade Suitcase, The song spent seven weeks on top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album hit number 1 in America and placed high in many European countries. Razorblade Suitcase did not match the commercial success of Sixteen Stone by 2:1, and many people now and then compare(d) the album to Nirvana's 1993 album In Utero, because the team they hired for artwork and the producer Steve Albini were involved in In Utero. Some felt that Bush would soon decline in sales due to Britpop bands like Oasis, and Blur replacing grunge bands' place for popularity in the UK; however, Britpop music never became very big in America. In 1997, when Razorblade Suitcase stopped generating any more big hits, Bush released the remix album Deconstructed, which charted in the top 40.

In 1999, Bush released the album The Science of Things. The album was Bush's first studio album to not reach the top 10 in America. Its sales have been meagre compared to its predecessors--Sixteen Stone outsold it 6:1 and Razorblade Suitcase outsold it 3:1--but it was able to have the hits "The Chemicals Between Us," whi In 2001, the band released what would be their final album Golden State.
Due to lack of support from Atlantic Records and declining sales, Bush disbanded in 2002. In 2005, the band released a greatest hits album called The Best of: 1994-1999, and a few months later, a live album called Zen X Four.

Gavin Rossdale later became the lead singer of Institute and is now a solo artist. Robin Goodridge is now the drummer for the UK rock band Elyss.