Faye is the band’s bassist and manager. As well as being a huge nerd she’s a practitioner of Tetsudo and is addicted to both cakes and tattoos – so it’s probably good that she has a high pain threshold and can bake.

Faye plays a Cort Artisan B4LH equipped with Rotosound RS66LDN nickel roundwound strings. She can count to five but likes an instrument with fewer strings than her hands have digits.


Dave lives in Sheffield with his collection of bicycles and long-suffering girlfriend. He is better at rebuilding guitars than playing them, although this is not saying much.

Dave owns a Sennheiser EW100 wireless mic and TC Helicon VoiceTone effects unit but tends to just use a Shure SM58 these days as it is less faff.


Kate was thawed from the Siberian permafrost in [date deleted] and has had a thing for the music of frozen wastelands ever since. She remains unshakeable in her belief that cheese is a green vegetable.

Kate plays a purple violin made for a child and held together with ribbons and knicker elastic.


Richard is a Sheffield-based geek, metal-head, climber, drummer, analyst and digital-rights activist. Not necessarily in that order.

Richard plays a Hart Dynamics electronic kit with a Roland brain. It’s cleverer than he is.