Bass player, songwriter, song arranger. Also known to play guitar, keyboards, sing a bit and do all the band artwork too.

Started off many years ago in a college band, singing (as he couldn't play anything then) for a bit of a laugh. "I think we were called 'Eddie Acne and the Blackheads', but we never gigged".

While working in Our Price in Harlow (or Living Hell as Stu Ascott remembers it) he offered to sing in one of the other staff's band as their singer left. About two practices later they played one of those rock contests at The Square in Harlow as 'The Fudpuckers'! They weren't very good, and soon after that band drifted apart. Musical differences are suspected. Gary and the drummer, Nick Becker (formerly of rockabilly band The Pharaohs) recruited Nigel Glynn and Rat on guitar and bass, and formed DadTV.

DadTV were a great deal better, and wrote a dozen or so decent tunes between them. They were tight, if not the most gifted band around, and were popular enough for a short time. A year or so and one more rock contest at The Square later, DadTV broke up. A short and enjoyable stay in some mates' band (possibly called 'One Big Lie'), playing guitar, never really got off the ground - though a solo re-take of one of the songs (Set Me Free) appeared on Gary's album of the same name a few years later.

Around this time Gary was sharing a flat with another mate, Adrian Batt. A great guitarist and a songwriter too, they started writing together. Some of these songs would become part of the band Swank's repertoire. Though they never gigged together, they had an albums worth of songs demo'd. These eventually saw the light as "Swank - The Second Coming", but by this time though, Swank had a new line-up.

While all this was going on, Gary auditioned and joined a heavy rock band as lead vocalist. Chinatown had been going a year or so, but played mainly covers. Though they continued to keep some AC/DC and Thin Lizzy style covers in the set, Gary, with guitarists Tony Luxford and Keith Brighty started writing their own. Searchin', Salt in My Wounds, Last Time, Down, Mind Games (part 1), Got It Wrong and In For The Kill all became live favourites alongside Lizzy's Are You Ready, and AC/DC's Sin City. The Skint Chicken EP was recorded at Thornwood Studios, Epping while the band watched England beat Spain on penalties in Euro '96!! Memorable gigs included The Rock Garden (Covent Garden), The Royal Standard (Walthamstow), and playing with Dumpy's Rusty Nuts at The Square, Harlow again.

By the summer of '97, Chinatown were playing less often - mainly due to lack of drummers (as usual). To keep from getting gig rusty, Gary reformed Swank as a three-piece. "The Second Coming" local pub 'tour' around east Herts and west Essex lined up with Darran P Short on guitar and vocals, Gary on bass and vocals, and Rob Hicks on drums. Playing mainly covers, every gig was done for fun, and a good time was had by all! Sadly, no live recordings can be found... The next year, Darran moved back up to his hometown of Blackpool, so Gary concentrated on writing and recording as many songs as possible. Somewhere around the millenium, a few tentative chats happened between some (then) work colleagues about forming a band "for a bit of a laugh". Mark Bundy had never sung in a band before, but was confident he could. Gary would play guitar, with experienced drummer Dave Lancashire, and bassist Ben Harknett. After what seemed like an age, and many stupid ideas later, the band named themselves "The 11th Hour"...

Interests: music, football, sports, cartooning, comics, books, films, Chelsea FC, animation, natural history, palaeontology, archaeology, astronomy

Influences: Things I love, like and have been influenced by, in no particular order...
The Damned, Dweezil, Abba, Roxy Music, Tom Petty, The Monkees, Adam And The Ants, Stan The Man Lee, Jack King Kirby, Joltin' Joe Sinnott, Housemartins, Aerosmith, 1989, Beach Boys, Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni, Galileo, HR Geiger, Salvador Dali, Da Vinci, Jet, The Bangles, Supertramp, Guns'n'Roses, Seal, Anti-Nowhere League, Inxs, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Storm, Yazoo, Fatboy Slim, Chris Merrick Hughes, Terry Lee Miall, Mantra II, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, Frank Zappa, Patrick Moore, Ducks, Alien, Re-Animator, Chinatown, Stereophonics, Soft Cell, Robert Palmer, Stray Cats, Spandau Ballet, Feeder, ELO, OMD, XTC, Garry Tibbs, Supermen Lovers, Reed Richards, Robbie, Wham!, The Bees, Mary Jane Watson, Duran Duran, a-ha, Kylie, Monet, Madge, Madness, The Beatles, Darkness, Blondie, Black, My Life Story, Happy Millionaire, Swank, Strawberry Switchblade, Strawberry Shake, Big John Buscema, Alan Davis, Darts, Billy Idol, Neil Diamond, Clash, The Hives, Buddy Holly, Killers, Blur, Richard Harris, Nirvana, Oasis, Bright Lights Black Leather, High Heels In High Places, Carty, Colin James, Prince, Queen, King, Crowded House, Janus, Mimas, Enceledus, Tethys, Dionne, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, David Bowie, Rick Springfield, ABC, B52s, Belinda, Bob & Tom, Mum & Dad, 45rpm, Chris Spencer, Trio, Ultravox, Ray 'Butch' Wilkins, Celery, Van Morrison, The Fantastic Four, The Famous Five, The Sinister Six, The Magnificent Seven, Thomas Dolby, Cure, Offspring, Portishead, Texas, London, Television, Terrorvision, DadTV, Jam, Sex, Pistols, Los Lobos, The 11th Hour, Xtina, Eurythmics, Frankie, Pluto, Charon, Billy, We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It, Kim Wilde, Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Samosa, The Jacksons, Kinks, Rocky Horror, Stephen King, Police, Roy Orbison, Nik Kershaw, Peter Parker, Rolling Stones, Queens Of The Stone Age, Emma Frost, The White Queen, Audioslave, Scooby Doo, The Ultimate Nullifier, Suzi Quatro, Iron Maiden, Joe Satriani, The Silver Surfer, The Teardrop Explodes, Swank, Kurt Wagner, Mr Tickle, Swimming With Sharks, whales and dolphins yeah xxx

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