LIELA HAS THREE MIDDLE NAMES
SHE IS AN ARIES AND HAS THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS HER FATHER, WHICH SHE FINDS STRANGE YET SIGNIFICANT
PLACE OF BIRTH: LONDON, UK.
LIELA HAD MOVED TO CHELTENHAM AS A YOUNG GIRL TO ESCAPE A FAMILY DISPUTE IN LONDON. FORTUNATELY, YEARS LATER, IT PROVED TO BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PLACE IN HER MUSICAL LIFE, AS THERE SHE BEFRIENDED LUKE FORD, WHO INSISTED SHE PERSUE SINGING OVER GAMBLING ON THE HORSES AND THROWING RUBBER-JOHNNY WATER BOMBS AT THE WINDOWS OF THE POSH LADIES COLLEGE. OH DEAR.
NEVER LEAVES HOME WITHOUT: HER COPY OF T.S.ELIOT'S 'FOUR QUARTETS', A LOCK OF HER MUM'S HAIR AND A BOTTLE OF MULTIVITAMINS.
OLIVER 'THE KID' BETTS
STAR SIGN SAGITTARIUS
PLACE OF BIRTH: GLAMOUROUS BURY-ST.EDMUNDS, UK
YOUNG BETTS STRIKES OUT AGAINST THE ILLS OF THIS WORLD, BY SLAMMING A HARD STICK WITH A FIRM FIST ON A TIGHT BRASS SNARE, AND STICKS THE BOOT INTO A PREMIERE KICKDRUM.
OLLY IS KNOWN FOR HIS SENSATIONAL BRUNETTE CURLS, HIS IMPECCABLE MANNERS AND PRECISE ETTIQUETTE AT SOCIAL GATHERINGS.
PRE-DUKE SPIRIT OCCUPATIONS INCLUDE ROOFING, WHICH SAW THE EMERGING CHILD-STAR CULTIVATE DEFT-OF-HAND CRAFTSMANSHIP WITH A SEAMING PLIER, EDGE BENDER AND A GUTTER OUTLET PUNCH.
THE FIRST GIG HE EVER PLAYED: AT 'THE WETHERDON MAYPOLE' IN SUFFOLK, WITH HIS BAND 'EPONYMOUS'. SEXY.
TOBY BUTLER
A BORN AND BRED VECTIAN*, TOBY ESCAPED A SEA-FARING CAREER ON THE RED FUNNEL JETS, BY FOLLOWING A PASSION FOR MUSIC.
FAVOURITE CREATURES: WOLVES
WHILST STROLLING THE SOUTHERN COASTLINE, A YOUNG TOBY WOULD STRUM GUITAR, CHANNELLING A UNIVERSAL ENERGY WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY GUIDE HIM TO THE PROVINCIAL ENGLISH TOWN OF CHELTENHAM. HERE HE WOULD MEET A GRADUATING MR FORD, WHO HIMSELF WAS SEARCHING FOR A BAND. DRIVEN BY GUSTS OF SALINE SYNCHRONICITY, TOBY BEGAN A LIFE IN ROCK THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY MANIFEST IN LONDON TOWN - HOME OF HIS TEENAGE HEROES, THE STONES, THE CLASH AND THE MIGHTY DAVID ESSEX.
(*VECTIS IS THE ROMAN NAME FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT)
LUKE B. FORD
THE SON OF A MOTOR CITY MAN, LUKE GREW UP ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF COVENTRY, UK.
LIKE MANY A YOUNG SUBURBAN KID, LUKE ASPIRED TO BE A BREAKDANCER LIKE HIS MATES. AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT, A MENTOR AT HIS FIRST JOB STEPPED IN TO RESCUE HIM FROM SUCH GRANDIOSE SCHEMES, AND TURNED HIS HEAD TOWARD ALTERNATIVE ROCK AND ROLL INSTEAD.
ON A STEADY DIET OF SUCH SONIC BOHEMIA AS CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND SPACEMEN 3, THE 16 YEAR OLD FORD HAD SOMEWHAT OF A RENAISSANCE IN THE MID-90'S. SO HE ROLLED UP HIS LINO FLOOR MAT, DONATED HIS TRACKSUIT TO THE CHARITY SHOP, AND BOUGHT A CHEAP JAPANESE REISSUE GUITAR, WHICH HE'D LATER SELL TO CASH CONVERTERS TO PAY HIS RENT.
OTHER HOBBIES INCLUDE FORGETTING HIS PASSPORT AND TAKING MAJESTIC PHOTOGRAPHS