The first sounds of what would become Opium Toad came from the early drum beats of Lawrence who took the first steps by deciding to start playing the drums. He was soon followed by the second member, Krischan, starting to play guitar. Soon this turned Lawrence's bedroom into the practice area that it remains to be to this day and was filled with the sounds of out of time drum beats and ear splitting feedback. After Lawrence and Krischan jammed a few times Tubb decided to pick up a guitar and joined in with the fun. They soon "asked" Nick to join them. By that we mean that we forced him to start playing Bass to fill the gap we had. After a long while of random practising lacking a vocalist Lawrence recruited Harrison Ball to do some vocals. A few practices later we realised that this arrangement wasn't the best for either of us so we parted ways with Harrison. A short while later we grabbed Talyor (the adventurer) to do our vocals and thought that would be us sorted.
Unfortunately this relationship wasn't to last. During Sharny's stint in the US as a Ski Instructor things went on as usual with Opium Toad taking on a more metal sound and feel. Towards the end of this stay however, Taylor unexectantly quit the band. Initially this was put down to him being grounded for a lengthy time by his parents although now many other stories seem to be thrown into the mixture. Either way though, Opium Toad were left distinctly lacking vocals and feeling much like being back at square one. Of course, in reality, we had come a long way from that start and had a decent base of material underneath us. All we needed was vocals. After unsucessfully seeking talent at Lozz's College we then looked inward, and upon a sort of audition decided that at least until someone better was possibly found Sharny would take the helm with vocals. This brings us to where we are now, working on bringing ourselves back up to performing standard with a new vocalist.
Hey there, thanks for the add! Hope your well.
If you could take a second to add the band i manage and take a look round their myspace i would be very grateful. www.myspace.com/sychatrissiband
Hey How are you today? We're playing in Nottingham on 20 Dec at THE MAZE Great XMAS GIG and in January at Rock City supporting Twenty Twenty, Hope you can make it :) Love Kiss Corona xoxo
FUCKING YES! WHEN;) WHERE;) you do realise we have one and a half original songs btw:P so we wouldn't have much of a setlist and we dont have a full on vocalist yet:( xx
Now...i think..there should be a song dedicated to YAGSIMOT..or you should atleast make a model of him and blow it to pieces :) just for a laugh and for some pictures and stuff :p but yeahh nice work guys :)
toplis needs to give my guitar back..the little bastard :p :)
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