Bands
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51st State Formed from the remnants of the legendary The Lost Chords, 51st State is officially 48 states better than Budhism. Too stand-offish to disabuse those who think it is named after a The The song that isn't called 51st State.
Kiwi John – drums. From Australia, we think. Needs to leave rehearsals before arriving in order to get home on time. Can only accomplish this due to the difference in time zones. Insists on using musical terminology such as “in tune” and the like.
Tony McCormack - bass. Will quench the thirst of those seeking to drink at the fountain of reasons why Ceremony can not be played on a four string bass.
Will Oulton – guitar pedal. Also insists on using musical terminology, such as “hit those drums hard”.
Highbury Bob – pre-records the death rattle of stray cats then mangles it through stomp boxes. -
Run GMP Guitarist Neil Copeland has described Spence & Partners’ Run GMP as “the best band I’ve ever played in”, though his claim to have played all the hard bits for his mate Eddie on Van Halen’s debut album should be treated with a degree of caution. Ian “Slowhand” Shand has never looked back since the Lady of the Loch presented him with the legendary Axe-caliber. Ian’s non musical hobbies include otter wrestling and full contact macramé. Drummer “the Reverend” Aaron Copeland’s credo is that the path to salvation lies through playing heavy metal music turned up to eleven, drinking copious amounts of cider, and getting really high scores on Gears of War. On bass (the guitar not the beer) we have “Squadron Leader” Mike Selby - quite how Spence & Partners acquired Mike’s remains and managed to reanimate his frozen corpse is a murky and disturbing tale best left for another time. Sophie “the Divine Miss S” Slater is looking forward to a triumphant hometown gig. There have been many words used to describe the Divine Miss S, but I’ve checked with HR and apparently we can’t use any of them here. Please head over to our facebook page to find out more about the band: https://www.facebook.com/rungmpmusic?ref=hl -
De-Capita-Tor Originally formed back in the seventies by their parents De-Capita-Tor members are a gathered smattering of pension folk who got too drunk and too involved to back out, and so a money and mouth situation was born.
Dan Peroni wears Y fronts so we made him front man, in true rock n roll style he threw a tele out the window “I hated playing that fender anyway” he said “hand me my mic” he was last seen in a Kebab shop in Cheam.
Pete “the vicar” is an amateur axe murderer, by that we mean he plays a fine tune on the six string, when and if he is ever in tune, he said “the last pension rocks was even better than the day I passed my cycling proficiency test”. His other hobbies include being a bloke from the 1970’s, get a new haircut Pete!
Bobby “Carrot” is a slapper, but only on Bass, whilst learning the bass he got blisters from “moving his fingers up and down really fast”. Bobby is the best beard grower in the whole band and the man we all hope will one day fulfil his dream to be a goalpost for Everton.
Sean “the cauldron” will be mixing it up on guitar Sean is not a child of the seventies and boy does it show, he is so young he does not remember “old top gear” with William Woolard.
Kris “the Boogie” will be hitting you his rhythm sticks, Kris was deemed too tall so we made him sit down at the back behind cymbals also no-one else could be bothered to carry around a kit to rehearsal. Kris enjoys eating curry as it’s open late at night and once offered some of his chicken biryani to his wife, because he “loves her more than curry”.
Hayley Cray was going to be an east end gangster but then discovered her name was spelt wrong, naturally the obvious way to get into the protection racket was to join the life and pension industry. Some years later she fell into a rehearsal room with some talk of singing although most of the time was spent wondering what class it was she missed in school that left her in a dark damp rehearsal room with four old giffers making noise. -
Pink Torpedo Guitar: Paul “Gricy” Grice, this self-styled Squire of Herts can be found widdling on an axe when not quaffing a bottle of crisp Chardonnay.
Vocals: Carl “Carlos” Yearwood, with a penchants for the Orient and a predilection for social media, when not singing for the band he can be found tweeting “Come on you Orient”
Bass: Simon “Corders” Cordery, suffers badly from G.A.S. (google it) an affliction so out of hand he has to smuggle new kit in to the house under cover of darkness so Mrs C doesn’t find out.
Drums: James “The Rixonator” Rixon, data architect by day, chief of a pico brewery by weekend and still has time to batter his heads before Match of the Day starts, has lofty ambitions. -
BlackRocket Winners back in 2013, can they do it once more...
• Jeannette Spaulding (vocals) – Jeannette works in Client Mandate Strategy & Design by day and is a rock goddess by night.
• Dan Edwards (vocals) – If a member of disbanded One Direction worked in Risk & Quantitative Analysis, Dan would be that member…
• Stephen Crocombe (guitars) – As BlackRock’s Head of Multi-Asset Stratgies in EMEA, it was perhaps inappropriate when he shouted in a recent band conference call next to the trading floor: “We need to grab our crotches more if we want to win!”
• Chris Moore (keys) - A Managing Director in BlackRock’s Institutional business, Chris remembers most of our songs the first time they came out as originals in the 60s!
• Olutayo Osunkule (drums) – Olu is a Nigerian drum god who picks stocks for a living. Go figure.
• Stephen White (bass) – After dreaming of being a world-famous jazz double bassist as a kid, Stephen is naturally now a Director in Corporate Communications.
