Kev Clarke - Bass guitar Playing
Kev first picked up a bass guitar 25 years ago and gigged in or around Didsbury with a band of mates. Good fun, but never a serious rival to Led Zeppelin. His last gig before MIV was a cabaret band, playing in a brothel/bar in Ardwick, Manchester, where the leade singer got them all almost killed by telling racist jokes between numbers and Kev played with his back to the audience 'cos he was so embarassed.
Needless to say, that was the end of a not very promising career until Pete, a then work colleague, pursuaded him to get himself a guitar and join a staff covers band for a staff party and for a "laugh" and it sortof carried on from there......what Kev lacks in talent he makes up for with enthusiasm and hair.
Neville Bester - Keyboard Playing
Nev joined MIV in June 2008, having spent too many years in covers bands. Like other members of MIV he hadn't realised that there was life after covers and he soon got involved in contributing toward MIV's original compositions. Nev was first dragged along to piano lessons aged 8 (thanks mum!) and worked his way through a folk band at school, a Who covers band in Bornmouth and a covers band in Warrington (played in the hard rock cafe in Manchester on several occasions). The last straw was having to play Robbie williams numbers at weddings.......Nev numbers his influences as Richard Wright and Tony Banks.
Pete Lawson - Guitar playing and Singing
Likes; Fender/Taylor guitars, Alfa romeos, cats, Nirvana, Zeppelin, Therapy?, Chemical Brothers, Richard Dawkins books, Charles Darwin, Family Guy, American dad, Pulp Fiction, The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, Can, Neu!, the Daily Telegraph, the IT crowd, Harry Patch (man was a hero), Doom on the PC, John Peel (another late hero), Hendrix, Capitalism, Peep Show, Breaking Bad and winding Kev Clarke up......
Dislikes; All religions; dangerous fairy stories, the lot of them, religous zealots/bigots, the Archbishop of Canterbury (total tosspot), the Pope (Nazi youth reject), slow drivers/tractors/caravans, Robbie Williams, Paul Clynch (that tool's just a joke), Jamie bastard Oliver, Simon twatting Cowell, football/rugby/tennis/golf not to mention cricket (Jesus H.Christ, torture in the extreme), "New Age" anything, bleeding heart liberals, the *CENSORED BY KEV (but, hey, thanks for visiting this site, you naughty *CENSORED BY KEV muppets, you...) , "Sir" Cliff Richard, "Sir" bloody Bono (and U2 - terrible band), Sting, terrorism, the labour/green party, herbalists, babies (eerrgghh), the royal family (in particular the late "princess of hearts", Diana - stupid cow), homeopathy, censorship and playing covers.
Peter's fave colour is black. His fave food is dust.
* Kev doesn't want to upset those bastards at the *CENSORED BY KEV.
