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The Front Room......
We welcome our
newest members, Natalie and Dee who have joined us whilst Anna & Kelly have
their babies. (It must be something in the Rushden water?)...........
Natalie:
Watch this space!
Dee:
Watch
this space!
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The Engine Room.........
 Well! I suppose I had a misspent youth dabbling in all the things I
shouldn't like drink & women. However 2 passions have stayed with me
since an early age (apart from playing the fool, that is) music &
dare I say it, amateur radio! Yes I'm one of those blokes who do it with
higher frequency! Have you seen my massive 60' Erection in my back
garden?
Anyway back to business. I cut my
teeth musically so to speak, in what can only be classed as a cross between a Hawkwind tribute
band and early punk. Gosh those were heady days and certainly bring
back the memories.
My musical aspirations soon took a back seat
as my other career in electronics took off and the family came along!
However my guitar and music were never far away. I soon got the bug again
and could be heard at Christmas parties making a fool of myself but what
the heck? One such gig was 'SWARF' a duo that was formed from the SoftWAre and RF design departments of the company I was working in at
the time. Get it?
Then came my big break (or male menopause?)
in the vein of "Loose Covers" and the "FatBoy 5". And the
rest, as they say is history. I now play rhythm guitar with On The Run.
Mine's a pint! Cheers.
 When our
original drummer, Mike, showed us the family
tree of all the bands he’s played in and suggested that the rest of us
draw up something similar, I said "Great! Now’s my chance to tell
the world how I once played in the same band as someone who used to be a
member of Solstice!"
"Who?" Ian asked.
I started to tell him about this great
neo-progressive album from the early eighties that I’ve got, but
stopped when I noticed his eyes starting to glaze over.
Actually, the first band I ever played with
was called Paris Green, though it was not so much a band as a motley
assortment of poets and folk musicians with a tendency to take turns in
performance rather than play all together. Well, it was the late
sixties. And we only managed to do a couple of gigs anyway.
More recently, I’ve played with a variety
of pub and club bands, with names like the Y Band, Le Thué (don’t
ask), Gambit’s Runner, Replay, T-Bird Rhythm, and Loose Covers. Some
of them have liked the way I try to avoid playing anything the same way
twice – others haven’t been quite so sure. In fact, one of them (I’m
not saying which!) sacked me for it. Maybe that’s why I get nervous
whenever I open one of Ian’s e-mails.
My first Gig was at the age of 7, the band was
formed in about 10 minutes, I played a Tea Chest Bass, without a Tea
Chest because we couldn’t find one, and a tree branch instead of a
broom handle. My instruments have improved since then. I was 14 before
joining my next band, with a real Bass.
A
progression from Skiffle through Rock + Roll, Pop and all the rest
lead me though a series of Bands and into “On The Run”. From leaving
School I played in various local pop groups, that’s what we liked to
be called in those days, always thinking we were good and always
thinking our music was what the audience should be liking. I then
moved on into bigger bands as part of a rhythm section, this is where
I was taught how to play as part of a band and how to play that other
instrument, its called “an audience”.
I have
had the privilege to play with many people and I hope I can add
something I’ve learned from them; into “On The Run”.
Watch this space for
details!!!
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