Gary Briggs - Vocals And Guitars Nat Wason - Lead Guitar Iwan Gronow - Bass And Backing Vocals Jack Mitchell - Drums
Influences
Gary Briggs - The hollies, the who, the byrds, Sunny days, Red wine.
Nat Wason - The byrds-The notorious byrds brothers,Gene Clarke-No other,Gram Parsons- Grievious angel,Bert jansch-Bert jansch and Fairport Convention.
Iwan Gronow - Arthur Lee(Love)- Forever Changes, Bob Dylan- Desire, Jimi Hendrix- Axis Bold as Love, Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow, Beach Boys- Pet Sounds And The Buzzcocks.
Jack Mitchell - sex pistols-Never mind the Bollocks, The La's, the la's, anything by the Who, Smiths-queen is dead, Led Zeppelin ?, Turin Brakes-The optimist E.p, Anything by Tom Petty.
Warm spirals of synchronicity caused HAVEN to crash-land in Manchester via
St Just Cornwall . Quickly they found their feet and voices as well as a
devoted fan base following a joyous residency at the legendary Night and Day
Cafe. Soon after Radiate Records (Virgin) swooped down and asked them to
sign on the dotted line. The band immersed in sweet sonics at Clear Studios,
watched over and encouraged by the inspirational Johnny Marr. 2003 dawned
beautifully with the release of the timeless and exquisite Between the
Senses album hurling HAVEN into all corners of the planet where they were
repeatedly met with critical acclaim, wild applause and their fair share of
rock n roll misadventure.....
Next up, the band assembled at RAK studios to put down some strident second
album tracks with producer Dave Eringa. Soon after, a slight hiatus happened
in the Haven story when guitarist Nat Wason unfortunately suffered a severe
attack of Bells Palsy. It is an illness that often results in a slow
recovery so here, the band took some time out for Nat to get better.
A second episode of recording ensued with Johnny Marr and this coalesced
with the Eringa sessions to create the All for a Reason album .This second
collection of songs proved the band had an enduring capacity to create
breath-taking music. This album of intense romantic yearning coupled with a
pioneering sense of musicality provided a lucid, impressive second chapter
in the bands history.
People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
thought i'd check see what u guys are up to. Looked through the old music collection and saw both ur albums soo got em out to play in the car and in typical fashion blast the music out...miss u guys, ur musics the nuts!! i know ur doin different musical projects but pray u guys make a come back together.
We supported Haven in Northampton in 2001/2002 (cant remember now!) and they are a top band and top blokes. We definately think the boys should come back, why not? everyone else is!!!! Lets here it for a reunion tour and The Vision as main tour support!!!!
ALRITE,HOWS IT GOIN? HOPE YOUR ALL DOIN GOOD, ANY GIGS COMING UP SOON?HAVE BEEN ON U TUBE LOOKING AT HAVEN GIGS-THERES SOME WICKED STUFF-GARY-WAT A VOICE!!! AM REALLY PISSED OFF THAT I COULDNT GET TO YOUR GIG IN CORNWALL A FEW MONTHS BACK-UNLESS U KNOW PEOPLE OR CAN DRIVE ,ITS VERY TRICKY. IS THERE A 3RD HAVEN ALBUM THAT I DONT KNOW ABOUT? COS IVE GOT BETWEEN THE SENSES N ALL FOR A REASON. AND ON SOME OF THE MYSPACE TUNES IT SAYS-3RD ALBUM!? IVE SEEN U LIVE AT GLASTONBURY,SCOTLAND,PENZANCE,N PRESTON-IN THAT ORDER!! SOZ-THAT SOUNDS LIKE ITS FROM A DEMENTED FAN.!?.. I WAS TRYIN TO WRITE TUNES LIKE U A YEAR OR SO AGO-BUT I REALISED THAT AM NOT A GOOD ENOUGH SINGER TO PULL IT OFF LIKE GAZ CAN SO HAVE STARTED THINKIN ABOUT RHYTHMS/RHYMES IN THE SINGING-A BIT LIBERTINESY-BUT MORE MELODIC,AND NOT WITH A COCKNEY ACCENT COS AM FROM PRESTON.COME N HAVE A LISTEN. CAN U TELL ME WAT THAT SONG WAS THAT U PLAYED FIRST AT GLASTONBURY-IF U CAN REMEMBER? CHEERS,HOPE TO C U SOON,ALEX
