Paul Holden - Drums, Incidental noises and sarcasm
Andy "Andrew3000" Taylor - Too many guitars and attitude
Dave "The Magic Number" Reybould - 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...
We 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 Holden & Scott Heald, with a couple of other lads, Rich Moulding on guitar & Rob Hanson on bass). It's fair to say we were crap. All we did was dodgy covers as fast as humanly possible, so yeah that sucked.
After a few awfull gigs we swapped Rich for Andy (3000 guitars) Taylor (who at that time only had about 25 guitars), and Scott moved to bass duties and 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 Raybould, not a keyboard player but a shit hot guitarist and that made us what we are today... (insert whatever you like here, but its the complete opposite of what we used to be)
'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
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.
Hey hows it going?
We reeeeeeeaaaaaallllllllyyyyyy need you!
We are aiming to get into the top 20 UK chart with the single 'Ask Away' - The single is in memory of our bassist/vocalist Tim Brown and it would be the best lasting memory we could do for him.
The single is out June 11th (Just 1 week away!!), and would help us so much if you picked up a copy(or 2!!!!). You will be able to order from HMV online , and most download sites from monday June 11th! There will be links from our page to all the sites so keep checking back
YOU CAN PREORDER IT ON HMV NOW, JUST CLICK ON THE BANNER BELOW!!
Would be really amazing if you bought a copy in that week, and help us make Tims dream come true
