Twas 4 years ago in a school asembly when the first performance was given to the world, and my god, it sucked. A rendition of Wild Thing by Ross on the drums, a certain Harry on the guitar and John on the keyboard.
Couldn't hear the keyboard. What was youplaying on the guitar? Why were you out of time?
Questions asked, none answered.
We need a bassist says someone. Enter Neil (who'd never picked up a bass in his life) and was currently learning his way round a six-string.
Smoke on the Water was the first assignment, that failed, so did John, and he left.
So Ross, Neil and Harry carried on for a few months doing nothing but called themselves a band anyway because it sounded good.
A certain AJ came along to a band practice one evening and had a jam. It went well and he came in the band.
The one and only gig of this line up was a February night @ Penryn School doing a much improved version of Wild Thing which the crowd lapped up.
AJ left for college and it was back to Harry, Ross and Neil.
We need a singer, enter Joe.
Hate to Say I Told You So, What's My Age Again?, Pretty Fly (Classics!) where the order of the days. On the menu also which no-one read was Harry leaving.
Jack came in on the guitar and done what was neccesay till he decided to p**s off to a bunch of tards.
Enter old flame Harry.
The band were asked to do a few songs at an event in Penryn School.
"Yeah, great. OK then, Joe's in Spain errrrr, whada we do?"
Now things got interesting.
Ross could sing...a bit.
"But we can't have drummer singing, that'd be quite daft" "OK then, ask Lee to play drums for the performance" "Good idea".
So that was set, Lee would do the drums, Harry and Ross the guitar with Ross doing vocals, and Neil as usual on the bass. The performance was great. The classic's which have now died out Californication & By the Way wjhere great and so was Nickelbacks's How You Remind Me. One twist, which was an extra member of the band playing on stage but not actually playing, if you know what I mean?!?! Marc played (or not in this case) so convincingly that many people did (and still do) beleive that Marc was playing.
A few months later Joe left and so the band that had performed previoulsy decided to get it together and jam.
A gig in October of 2002 tuned out to be Harrys last as he left (Incedently, so had Marc!)
So it was a three-piece again but very different to what it was and had been.
Gigs passed and went well. Lee then left.
Neil and Ross thought hard, and asked Andy to come in. He didn't take a split second to decide yes or no. (He said yes incasse you were wondering).
Earlier this year Ross decided to leave because he's a bum. But two weeks later he crawling back and it's up and running again. And better than ever before...