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| MATT CLARE (guitars/general sonic manipulations and treatments)
Matt has a complete set of artificial limbs which are retractable, detachable and interchangeable, having been grown from special organic plastic at a secret location, high in the Himalayas. The added flexibility comes in especially handy for those tricky guitar chords. Matt is the possessor of an exceptionally long and luxurious virtual beard which only becomes visible in ultra-violet light. Despite his futuristic appearance he is powered entirely by hydro-electricity... |
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Recently Matt spent some time away from the band when one of his ears inexplicably began receiving signals from a distant galaxy. Luckily, following an unexpected "alien abduction" incident, he was able to trade guitar lessons for a tube of special re-tuning ointment. He had been saved by Rock! |
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TIM
THWAITES (vocals/slide guitar/programming/keyboards/ melodica/harmonica/melodeon) Tim is actually 349 years old and incredibly wise. He lives in a cave in the forest and reads sci-fi novels, searching them for clues. It is a little-known fact that the answers to all the problems of the world are contained in his lyrics. How he maintains his youthful appearance is, however, a mystery...
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| JEMA
DAVIES (vocals/guitar/overall visual co-ordinator)
In her guise as Lumber-Woman Jema has now saved the world 15 times. In her easy to spot checked shirt she tears up trees with her bare hands and hurls them into the path of the evil rampaging alien hordes, shouting her war cry...
The secret source of Jema's
power is her unusual diet of root vegetables. She catches and consumes
them by the expert deployment of stealth knitting needles with which
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CLARE
HUNT (violin/string arrangements) Clare is actually the brains behind a sinister anarchist group dedicated to the overthrow of those evil and oppressive laws of physics. Despite being an expert fiddler her part-time association with with radium88 is merely a front to provide her with alibis with which she easily fools those silly men from the FBI. |
 
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It all started in the summer of 1996. Tim had been spending the last 200 years putting the finishing touches to his Concerto for Melodeon and Unsuspecting Tourist, and was beginning to admit that his musical endeavours might benefit from the input of other humans, albeit ones with unusual powers. He placed an advertisement in a café, which was a known haunt of bohemian intellectuals and eccentric superheroes. Eventually, one dark night, a keyboard player arrived at Tim's cave. Wary of entering by herself she had asked Jema to accompany her, safe in the knowledge that no evil-doer would dare try anything in the presence of Lumber-Woman. Jema could not help but be impressed by Tim's gnomic utterances and his dexterity with a potato and she decided to give the music a go herself. No-one ever found out what became of her friend, though. Several days later Jema was struck by the appearance of a tall handsome stranger as he strode past her in the street. It was not so much the way he walked on his hands as the guitar which flew out of his foot when he seemed to trip over something invisible. Reaching out reflexively with a knitting needle she caught the guitar - an ancient tibetan electric - and their eyes met. It was destiny. |  |
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And the most mysterious thing of all was that every
one of these events had been foretold by a mysterious gypsy woman who
turned out to be none other than Clare in Disguise!
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