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What we're all about |
Breathe - The Floyd Sound isn't a regular band as such, more of a part-time project with a fluid line-up; it's what happens when some musicians get together and share their passion for Pink Floyd's music with fans of Pink Floyd's music, it's been happening that way for Breathe - The Floyd Sound since 2004 |
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The collective currently contriving together:
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Nigel Neill .:. Keys |
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Nigel has played with Whitesnake rock legends Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody. He toured the UK with David Essex in the eighties and toured around the UK and Europe in the eighties and nineties. His studio recorded artists such as Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson and Mick Abrahams, Zak Starkey (The Who) and Henry Spinetti (Eric Clapton). Nigel could be found providing session keys for many studio projects as well as engineering some great rock and blues albums. He has also written and arranged original music for BBC television. Nigel now lives in the West Country with his wife Kim. “As a kid Floyd really did it for me” says Nigel, “Recently I engineered the sound at a number of Breathe gigs, so to get the call up from Dave and the boys was a real buzz. Can’t wait to get touring again, I have High Hopes!” |
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Marc Michalski .:. Vocals & Bass
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Marc has been playing bass guitar for over twenty years, working with the likes of:
Chris Andrews, Clive Bunker, (Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig), Andy Pyle (Gary Moore, BB King, Paul
McCartney) Gwynn Ahton, Robbie Blunt (Chicken Shack, Robert Plant, Clannad). Since 2005 he has been playiing bass for MUD II and contributing significant energy to the music scene around Milton Keynes. Marc first became interested in playing Floyd numbers with Ant King's tribute act "The Great Pig in the Sky" together Andy Fenton.
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Syd Twineham .:. Vocals & Guitar
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Syd Twynham became a professional musician in 1974 when he joined pop rock band Hector, with whom he toured extensively in the UK and Scandinavia. In 1976 he joined rock band Babe Ruth.
When Babe Ruth split Syd and other members formed Liquid Gold who went on to achieve world-wide chart success with a string of hits. From 1987 Syd has toured Europe and The Middle East firstly with Les Gray's MUD right up to Les Gray's final performance in Belgium in December 2002, and thence with MUD II.
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Known to most as "Fingers Fenton", Andy was born in the Midlands and grew up with influences such as Wishbone Ash, Yes and Genesis. Previous bands have included Prog Rock, Cabaret and even Comedy.
After moving further down South he was approached to do a dep for Breathe, and that was it, he caught the Floyd bug. "The attention to detail really did get a hold of me.
This is an on-going project for me to re-create the Gilmour feel and sound, a big job!
I've even grown my hair the same shade of grey!"
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Now a firm advocate of the "less is more" style of drumming, Dave also adopts the role of Band Mother in Breathe having been mainly responsible for it since 2004. He abandoned playing music completely in the early '80's after some success and a gruelling touring regime with Punk Pathetique combo "The Shapes". Dave picked up the sticks again around the same time that he acquired an insanely powerful motorcycle, typically this occurred just when he turned 40. Intense therapy has resulted in him eventually shedding the bike but the drums remain resistant to interventions; some previous band-mates will even pass the time of day with him which is usually unexpected and mostly a pleasure.
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These musicians have contributed and in some cases continue to do so, together with an indication of what they have brought to the table:
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Chris Barnes: Vocals & Guitars
Peter Worley: Bass & Vocals
James Taylor: Keys
Joel Anderson: Keys
Jim Gross: Keys
Neil Smallman: Keys
Dave Woodfield: Keys
Keta Bill: Vocals
Alan Lineham: Keys
Peter Thompson: Vocals & Percussion
Peter Bowman: Guitars & Vocals
Louise Thompson: Vocals
Jill Palmer: Vocals & Saxophone
Nick Bond: Keyboards & Vocals
Dave Wilkinson: Vocals
Ant King: Keyboards
Joe O'Halloran: Saxophone
Doug Bedborough: Guitars
Charlie Tarry: Guitars
Neil Smith: Vocals
Tony "Tonto" Rolfe: Guitars
Grant Anderson: Vocals & Guitars
Marcus Whitehead: Guitars & Keyboards
Sharon Harrison: Vocals
Cat King: Vocals
Jim Hutchinson: Guitars & Vocals
David Deacon: Keyboards
Gary (Davis) Hudson: Bass & Vocals
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