Name:
Dec Burke

Born:
At a very early age in Limerick, Ireland

Lives:
for the music !!!

Influences:
All things musical.

Live Gear:
Mesa Boogie triaxis pre-amp, 2:90 power amp, Dual Recifier head
TC Electronics G-System, Dbx 266xl compressor gate
Furman Power conditioner, Ernie Ball volume pedal
Jim Dunlop wha pedal, Mesa boogie 4x12 guitar cab, Lehle A/B box
Musicman guitars

Favourite Bands:
Dream Theater, Spocks Beard, Rush, Genesis, Flower Kings, Porcupine Tree, Toto, anything with a good melody

Favourite Albums:
Wind & Wuthering (Genesis), Scenes From A Memory & 6DOIT (Dream Theater), Deadwing (Porcupine Tree) Snow (Spocks Beard)
Under the Iron Sea (Keane), Origin of Symmetry (Muse)

Favourite Food:
Curry

Favourite Osmond:
Ozzy

Favourite Word:
Yes

Fears?:
Stupid People in power, Rocking Horses, Sean after a curry, Spice Girls reunion

Other info:
Also sings with ‘Frost*’ - used to be in a Rush tribute band - also teaches guitar
Married to Jakki, and has a 7 year old son Cameron…

Name:
Sean Spear

Born:
St Helens, Merseyside

Lives:
Bicester, Oxfordshire

Influences:
Geddy Lee of Rush, Chris Squire of Yes, John Myung of Dream Theater (learning the bassline to Erotomania alone has improved my playing ten-fold)

Gear:
Warwick Streamer Pro V (5 string)
Warwick Streamer Stage 1 (4 string)
Westone Thunder IIa (fretless)
Trace Elliot AH300SMX Amp Head
Trace Elliot 1048H (4x10") and 1153 (1x15") speaker cabinets
Boss OC2, NS2 and ODB3 and Ibanez Chorus foot pedals
Dunlop 105Q Crybaby Wah
Roland PK-5 dynamic MIDI pedals
Novation K-station
(the last two are Dec’s but he lets me use them)

Previous Bands:
Grey Lady Down (and a few others that you’ll never have heard of)

Favourite Bands:
Rush, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Porcupine Tree

Favourite Albums:
Relayer (Yes), Deadwing (Porcupine Tree), Moving Pictures (Rush), Hejera (Joni Mitchell)

Favourite DR Song:
The Vast Within

Favourite Cheese:
Davidstow Mature Cheddar, Dec’s jokes

Favourite Osmond:
Osmond, Nebraska.
Also known as “The Water Capital of Nebraska”  due to it’s location in the heart of irrigation country.  See www.ci.osmond.ne.us for more interesting stuff.

Favourite prefix:
zepto

Name:
Mark Westworth     

Born:
Kendal, Cumbria

Lives:
Banbury, Oxfordshire

Influences:
70s prog & recent Swedish prog, Beatles, Classical music
(Rachmaninov, Debussy, Stravinsky, Morricone, John Williams)

Gear:
Yamaha S90ES
Nord Lead 3
Nord Electro 2
Akai Z4 sampler
Lexicon MPX500

Previous Bands:
Grey Lady Down (1996-2002)

Favourite Bands:
Yes, Genesis, Dream Theater, Pain Of Salvation, Flower Kings, Porcupine Tree, Rush

Favourite Albums:
Close To The Edge (Yes), Wind & Wuthering (Genesis),
Stardust We Are (Flower Kings), Perfect Element (Pain of Salvation),
Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater), OK Computer (Radiohead),
In Absentia (Porcupine Tree)

Favourite Films:
Cinema Paradiso, The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption

Favourite DR Song:
Illusion is Freedom

Favourite Cheese:
Applewood cheddar

Favourite Osmond:
Donny

Name:
Tim Churchman


Born:
Prison

Lives:
YMCA Northampton, UK

Influences:
Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozio

Gear:
Yamaha hipgig Rick Marotta signature
8, 10, 12, 13, 15” toms
10, 12” snares
16 x 22 bass drum (x2)
Zildjian A’s, K’s, and Z‘s cymbals
Pedals by Drum Workshop 9000 (x2)
Roland SPD20
Roland PD7 (x3)
Roland SP606

Favourite Bands:
Opeth, Dream Theater, Fear Factory

Favourite Albums:
Anything by the Spice Girls

Favourite DR Songs:
‘Pictures’

Favourite Food:
Scotch Egg

Favourite Osmond:
Sharon

Favourite Word:
Embiggend