Previous Bands

The Gift (1999 - 2003)

Richard Naisbett - Keyboards
Les Watts - Keyboards
Dave Lamb - Bass / Vocals
Deon Krishnan - Bass
Brett Amin - Drums
Steve Vine - Drums
Simon Ferry - Drums
Roy Pearson - Drums

Whilst still enjoying playing with Feeler I missed not having a keyboard player and wanted a bit more variety in the choice of music I could play.  The Gift did concentrate on covers but I took the chance wherever I could to get the band members to appear on my recordings.  We gigged regularly at first but work commitments got in the way for most of the musicians, whilst I wanted to spend more time writing and recording.

Feeler (1999 - 2001)

Paul Kilford - Bass
Brett Amin - Drums

Feeler developed from Crossroads and were primarily a three pricee rock trio.  We decided the Crossroads name was too blues based for us.  In Feeler we concentrated on writing and playing original songs with a good dose of covers thrown in.  We continued to gig 2 times a week for two years and produced the album "Second Time Around" which we managed to sell an awful lot of! (this was despite the cd duplication company sending us 500 cd's full of spanish themetunes covered in our logo!)  We enlisted Simon Donald of the comic Viz to do our front cover.

Crossroads (1995 - 1999)

I formed Crossroads when I left sixth form college.  We started out as a vintage rock covers band playing a lot of Cream, ZZ Top and Free.  However we started writing songs and released 2 albums of original material ('Its Not Our Fault' and the self titled 'Crossroads' .  Our greatest strength was gigging - which we did a lot of!  We averaged 3 gigs a week for almost 4 years around the North East pub circuit.  We also appeared at the Heineken music festival and appeared on TV 3 times. I had an on air interview with Virgin shock jock Nick who loved the "Its Not Our Fault" album. We also had the dubious honour of BBC1's Steve Wright canning one of our songs on air on his primetime breakfast show (his mates on the production team really liked the song though!)

Dave Lamb - Bass / Vocals
Brett Amin - Drums
Geoff Smithson - Guitar

Songwriting contributions from Jayne Armstrong and Peter Goode an old mate from uni (by the way, if you read this Peter, get in touch!).