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Andy Sharrocks was born in Manchester and started playing serious music in punk band Accident On The East Lancs. They released 2 singles We Want It Legalised/Tell Me What Ya Mean and Back End Of Nowhere/Rat Race, and an album Shotguns And Hotshots. One journalist recently suggested The Strokes should record Tell Me What Ya Mean.
On his first solo album Walking In Familiar Footsteps, Andy had no other than ex Rolling Stone Mick Taylor guesting on guitar and Paul Jones from The Blues Band and radio 2 fame guesting on blues harp, with Jeff and Tommy Vee, Bobby Vee's sons on bass and drums.

Denison Witmer is an indie singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first release was a cassette in 1995 entitled "My Luck, My Love". He has released five LPs, a cover album (Recovered), two EPs, and an LP with his side project, The River Bends, in which Witmer plays guitar and sings along with a backup band including members of Philly-based alt-country band One Star Hotel. His latest album, Are You a Dreamer?...

Guitarist Paul Tasker & singer Iona Macdonald formed Doghouse Roses in late 2005 after one too many nights listening to old music whilst drinking red wine. They soon developed a sound that lies in the spaces between Pentangle and Fairport Convention, with a nod to Gillian Welch on the way. Doghouse Roses have released two EPs to date and their full length debut, “How’ve You Been (All This Time)?” was released on the 6th of October, and preceded by a single, “Greener the Grass / Years”, in May.

April Verch
Hayes Griffin - guitar
Cody Walters - upright-electric bass and banjo

April Verch Band on Last.fm.