About

The band was drunkenly formed in The Footage Pub on Oxford Road way back in 2008. Back then the line-up was Chris (guitar), Hollie (guitar) and Emma (keyboard). Emma was our token “proper” musician (being at grade 7 or so at classical piano) with the next best being Hollie; self-taught at acoustic guitar. Chris owned a guitar but knew about three chords and couldn’t sing a note. Little has changed for him since. The idea was we’d just find somewhere to jam and see what happened. It sounded terrible but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. Emma dropped off early-on to focus her time on becoming a teacher but soon after, Chris found a Bass player in Pip in 2009 at a work’s summer BBQ. The band still didn’t have a name at this point and we played against some basic drum tracks to complete the sound. We occasionally we were in time with them too – only to go and immediately celebrate at the pub and forget literally everything we had learned.

By 2011, we’d convinced Sam to play on drums and wrote our first couple of songs. Sam was actually a much more accomplished guitarist than a drummer, but we needed a drummer and so drum he did. The line-up became Chris (vocals, guitar), Hollie (guitar) Sam (drums).

In 2011 Hollie ended up spending more of her time more doing performing arts with MUGSS, and although never officially quit the band, could no longer dedicate any time to it. One constant in this band’s history is it being somewhat disorganised in terms of practice. To fill her shoes we twisted Graeme’s arm (who’d recently become Chris’s housemate) to pick up lead guitar. Graeme actually preferred playing Bass, but we needed a guitarist so play guitar he did. Line-up was then Chris (vocals, guitar), Graeme (guitar), Pip (Bass) Sam (drums). Now we had a proper practice room in Brunswick Mill we could jam more regularly and became a little more organised.

We ended 2011 strongly and were increasingly interested in trying to book our fist gig, but that never happened and Chris went travelling mid 2012 for a year and the band went into a hiatus. During this time, Pip had got engaged and decided to start a family in Leeds with her other half, spelling the end of her term. At the end of 2013, Graeme went on a university swap for a further three months meaning we didn’t reform until 2014, sans a Bass player.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously and play for the love of playing. We’re based in Manchester City Centre and practice in a repurposed mill in Ancoats.

At the end of February 2014 we persuaded Jake to play drums. He’d played in some other bands in the past and was eager to get back into regular playing. This allowed us to shuffle into a more preferred outfit – Sam moved to his preferred instrument; the lead guitar; Jake moved into Drums; Graeme moved into his preferred Bass; Chris resumed vocals and rhythm guitar.

After several years of irregular practice and still no first gig, Jake’s wife volunteered us to play a charity gig for Retrak and Connecting HR Africa on December 12 2018 – ten years after the original idea for the band, and with a mostly different lineup. Better late than never I suppose.

Check out the photo section for the one photo someone managed to take on that evening.