Dave - A few more Guitars and a lot more diplomacy
Influences
The Beatles, The Wildhearts, Kiss, Led Zepplin,Terrorvision, AC/DC. The Who, Beastie Boys, Thin Lizzy, Ryan Adams, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Stones, Wilco, The Jam, Oasis, Therapy?, Gun's N' Roses, Blur, The Strokes, Nick Drake, Queens Of The Stone Age, Snow Patrol, Hayseed Dixie, Manic Street Preachers, Outkast, Counting Crows, The Ramones, Chuck Berry, Nirvana. Pearl Jam, Blameless, The Pogues, Ginger & The Sonic Circus, The Levellers, Velvet Revolver, The Coral, Jay-Z and of course... Dead Mans Finger
Then we'll begin...
The Flux Capacitors originally started out many moons ago when John Wayne was still in short trousers. Back in the day we were once a band called Mr Zebra (just Paul & Scott, with a couple of other lads - Rich Moulding on guitar & Rob Hanson on bass). It's fair to say we were utterly crap. All we did was dodgy covers as fast as humanly possible!
After a few god-awful gigs we kicked Rich out and replaced him with Andy (who at that time only had about 25 guitars), and Scott moved to bass duties after Rob went AWOL. THEN we wrote loads of kick ass songs while still trying to play as fast as humanly possible.
That was until we decided to get a keyboard player...
Enter Dave, not a keyboard player but a shit hot guitarist and that made us what were at our peak... (insert whatever you like here, but its the complete opposite of what we used to be)
Sadly, at the beginning of Summer 2008, The Flux Capacitors called it a day. Paul went on to become the drummer with our good friends' 'Dead Mans Finger' who promptly split up too, Andy & Paul formed 'The Lollypop Kids', and Scott, Dave and Andy went on to form 'Johnny Cravat & The Pedal-Pushers'... so in many ways we're all still playing with each other! (but NOT in the biblical sense!)
In the early months of 2009, Paul is working on his biggest challenge to date: a giant charity drumming extravanganza fund-raiser for cancer and meningitis charities. He will be playing with ALL of the bands he has ever been in, which means The Flux Capacitors will live and breathe once more time!
However, this unfortunate departure of South Yorkshire's finest rock band, leaves a happier legacy... the unfinished album we were working on 'Two Rights Don't Make A Wrong, But Two Lefts Make A U-Turn' is now available to download for free, right here on this site... so take home a piece of the magic, because when we were a band, we were a bloody good band...
Cheers for joining us for the ride
Peace, love, understanding, and all that other hippy-crap...
The Flux Capacitors (R.I.P.)
'ONLY WANNA MAKE YOU SMILE' performed live at The Boardwalk, Sheffield 17th January 2007
'NIGHT TRIPPING' performed live at The Boardwalk, Sheffield 17th January 2007
'1 + 1 = 3' performed live at The Boardwalk, Sheffield 17th January 2007
MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'YOU ROCKIN?'
MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'REAL ROCK N ROLL'
MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!!!?'
THIS IS NOT A WITCH HUNT (Live at SNAFU, Rotherham 5th Aug 2007)
D.I.Y. MONSTER (Live at SNAFU, Rotherham 5th Aug 2007)
My name is Mark and I am 28 years of age, very friendly, polite and I am considering starting up a business which consists of transportation for bands and musicians.
The vehicle that I have in mind is a mini coach (same or similar size as a Toyota Optimo), which will be converted to carry the bands gear, sleep up to 6 people in bunk style beds and will have seating, table, mood lighting and entertainment consisting of games console, T.V and sound system .
As I have quite a good eye for detail and styling, the finish will be quality, comfortable and eye catching. I will also help with the loading and unloading of gear to and from the coach/venue as well as Merching if needed.
What I need in order for me to obtain any kind of grant or loan to start this venture is a list of bands/musicians/groups etc, that are in need of this kind of transportation and would be interested in my services once I have set up.
I don't have a pricing system set up as yet but I was thinking around the £100 to £150 per day mark (not including fuel), and if the coach was needed for a longer period of time, I would knock the price down.
I would be very grateful for any feedback you might have regarding my idea, and what you would regard as a reasonable price for hiring my services, even if you wouldn't be interested.
Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.
Room hire as from October the 1st 2007 is as follows:-
Room hire per hour - £5
Drum Hire per hour - £1
Guitar amp hire per hour - £1
Bass amp hire per hour - £1
Microphone hire per block session - £1 (with or without stand)
Vocal, keyboard amp hire per hour - £1
This means that a 6pm to 8pm slot will now be £10
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and 8pm to 11pm slots will be £15
Sunday slots, 12-3, 3-6 and 6-9 will be £15
Storage hire remains at £5 per week.
Please note this is a non-smoking building so please go outside to smoke NOT in the hallways or stairways, both will be checked during booked slots and a customary clean up charge of £5 will be added to your session if you are caught smoking in the building.
Please ensure that your room is cleaned and emptied (use the bins provided) after your session or a customary clean up charge of £5 WILL be added to your room hire.
