Eve Fromant - VOX and words;
Angela Darling - VOX and patience;
Phill Firmin - Guitar and styling;
Kevin Martyn - Keyboards and fingers;
Steve Stratford - Guitar and teenage stoicism;
Tom Billingham - Guitar and teenage angst;
Peter Cook - Guitar and geriatric angst / stoicism;
Nick Power - Bass and IT Solutions;
Al the Drummer - Drums, Cigars and Cool;
GUEST ARTIST
Sir Jim Riley - Harmonica Magic;
NON PERFORMING MEMBERS
Kirstin Macrae - Lyrics and Cheerleading;
John Sands - Rhyming couplets, Basso Profundo and Upside Down Leadership
Influences
MUSIC: George Gershwin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, the Spice Girls and many more ;
FILM: It's a wonderful life, The Apartment, Oliver, House of Frankenstein ;
TV: How clean is your house?, Property Ladder, Grand Designs, Man about the house, Life of Grime, Doctor in the House, The Waltons ;
BOOKS: The little house on the prairie, Northanger Abbey, Brideshead revisited, Introduction to Social Housing - Paul Reeves, Talking to Architects: Ten lectures by Colin Ward, Bleak House, The Cider House Rules, Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll ;
HEROES: Thomas Crapper, Ikea, Marley Plumbing and Drainage ;
FAVOURITE SONG: We will house you!
WEBSITE: www.academy-of-rock.co.uk
Sounds Like
Housing Association Rock! Sex, Plumbing and Rock'n'Roll
This is the My Space home of the mhs ROCK BAND. We are an amateur band formed from the staff of mhs Homes in Medway. We have come together specifically to play one great Rock'n'Roll show at a Secondary School in Kent as part of our 2008 Conference, to generate money for Macmillan Cancer Charity. The band have a 'Triple A side': REGENERATION speaks of the trials and tribulations of business and personal transformation; THE CREDIT CRUNCH BLUES is a cathartic release of emotion around the impending recession / squeeze etc., and; 16 TONS bemoans the fat cat culture of the recent banking meltdown!! We recorded our hits on September 19th 2008 at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester, under the guidance of the great Jim Riley who performs a cameo role on harmonica on Credit Crunch Blues.
Our songs will be sold to help generate £50 000 to build a facility for Macmillan Cancer in the Medway Towns, so please tell all your friends about this important venture. You can give a donation by clicking the link to http://www.justgiving.com/petercook3 - We suggest a donation of £2.99 or whatever you can afford.
Even if you don't like the songs, in the word of Sir Bob Geldof 'just give us the f.... g money. You can request a CD to be sent to you by sending an e-mail to kirstin.macrae@mhs.org.uk
Barnroom Recording Studios nr Sittingbourne Kent UK
Recording and Rehearsals, Large Live Room.
Large comfortable Control Room Protools/Neve/Raindirk/Tascam/Focusrite and lots more! Recording/ Editing/ Mixing/ Mastering Residential Recording, Experienced Engineers Best rates
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