Dave Smith - Guitars / Vocals / Percussion and Whistling
Graham Collins - Guitars / Vocals / Piano
Lou Bryant - Bass and Acoustic Guitars / Vocals
Andy Cox - Drums and Percussion
Influences
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The story begins in the 70’s !
We all bumped into each other over the mid to late 70’s playing in cover bands like Renegade and Kord, who had Bob Banks as lead vocalist. Bob had introduced Graham and Dave to Lou, whilst Lou had already met Lindsay through the Spalding music scene in the 70’s.
Bob and Dave also played with Lindsay in 77 in a Spalding band with Andy Stone who is still working now as a full time musician.
Time Out came out of these bands over a two-year period in 1979 / 80 starting as a covers band playing songs by groups like Wishbone Ash, Thin Lizzy and Mountain. It quickly became apparent that song writing was much more interesting and satisfying and within just a few months we changed into an extremely well rehearsed and tight band that performed a complete set of original material written and developed by the band members. Pete Sharpe had joined us from our Renegade days and took on the mantle of sound engineer as well as lighting. He helped forge our sound and joined in on the song writing side of the band.
Pete still lives in Bourne’s smallest house and produces an extremely entertaining web site - www.petersharpe.co.uk
( Hope you don’t mind us giving that out Pete )
We gigged around the Stamford and Peterborough area during those two years including venues such the Bull & Dolphin in Peterborough ( now a shopping centre) and the Danish Invader (still around .)
A highlight of our live work was appearing at the very first Stamford Meadows Festival on July 12th 1980. The event showcased three bands on stage that day. They were Sacre Blu , Bordello and Time Out. The Stamford Mercury previewed the event and also featured us earlier in the year in a regular “Music Scene” spot in the paper.
We eventually went our separate ways and briefly as follows:
Dave Smith - Guitar and vocals - over the last twenty-five years played in many local bands around Peterborough such as Lifeline, Cut & Run and Monkey Business.
Graham Collins - Guitar and vocals - well recognised within the local muso scene as the areas top guitar player. ( So he says !) Continued to write and play with bands like The Pleasure and the critically acclaimed (Also so he says!) Breaking Point. Lou Bryant - Bass Guitar and vocals - also continued to write and perform with local bands and musicians including The Pleasure, Tut and C’est La Vie. Lindsay Barn - Drums – went on to play as a professional drummer around Europe and is still involved in the music business in management and promotions.We had no real contact with each other apart from a brief reunion some 15 years ago to play at Bill Pauley’s birthday bash. We also used this reunion to record a song that Lou and Graham had written called The Haunting. Featuring on this recording is Lesley Curtis - www.lesleycurtis.co.uk, who added some tremendous vocal parts on our new CD “Welcome to...” You can listen to The Haunting in our music section.
In autumn 2004 Lou found himself with time on his hands and fulfilled a long ambition to transfer all the recorded material he had from our old cassette tapes onto CD. (You can listen to some of this old material on this site – just go to the music tab on the menu to the left.) He managed to track us all down and presented the CDs to us over a few pints. This chat resulted in us meeting up in a rehearsal studio and trying out some of the songs from 1980. This proved to be a very enjoyable evening which developed over a few months into the new band. Other commitments meant that Lindsay had to let go with the project and Andy Cox from Peterborough stepped in on drums.
Writing, rehearsing and recording over the last 18 months has resulted in the fulfilment of all our ambitions and that is the production of an album of new songs written by Graham, Dave and Lou and produced by Lou.
The album is called “Welcome to .... “ and can be listened to and bought from this site.
You can see that we are no spring chickens but we think age is no barrier to good music so we hope that you enjoy our songs and playing - please buy the album and come and see us live.
We are booked for the Bourne Festival on the 7th of June and are planning an official CD Launch after that - please check the Gigs page for details.
Thanks for the invite to the show on friday. It must be a great feeling to play to your home crowd Let us know when something else comes up Our BandB was something else
Hey! GREAT MUSIC!! Your show with The Hampsters will increase even further, your strong local following. GREAT CONCEPT, GREAT SONGS! Monty+Kai+Dr. Drum = ZARAKAN
