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The Crew: Desert Island Discs

Mitch Sanders (vocals/guitar)

When did you first start playing:
I picked up the guitar and started writing at 14/15 years old

Musical influences:
the list is endless... jack white, arcade Fire, the Rolling Stones, Otis redding, Biggie Smalls, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Massive attack, Aretha Franklin, u2.. but the first song I ever heard that drEW me tO music was ‘The Man Who Sold The World’-David Bowie. Think it’s because it’s about Aliens and at 4 I thought “I’ll 'ave a bit of that”

desert island disc: 
1. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
2. Led Zeppelin - Ramble on
3. Massive Attack - Hymn of The Big Wheel
4. The Jeff Healey Band - When The Night Comes Falling (Dylan cover)
5. Fleetwood Mac- Gypsy 
6. The Beatles - In My Life
7. Kings of Leon - Arizona 
8. R.E.M - Nightswimming

DESERT ISLAND Book:
The Guv’nor - Lenny McLean

Luxury item:
Mayonnaise.

Aspirations for 5 years time:
Get the fuck off a building site and make music, write music and record as much music as possible. Tour constantly in places I didn’t know existed And ultimately aim toward playing a stadium show.


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Kit lavis (GUITAR)

WHEN DID YOU FIRST START PLAYING:
I got my first guitar on my 15th birthday

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: 
There's too many to list, but the first band that I remember hearing and thinking "yeah that's cool" would be The Clash.

DESERT ISLAND DISC: 
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
Motörhead - Love Me Like a Reptile
Thin Lizzy - Sarah
The Clash - Train in Vain
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower (yeah it's a cover blah blah blah)​

DESERT ISLAND BOOK:
Robinson Crusoe (it's basically a dummies guide to surviving on a desert island)

LUXURY ITEM: 
A knife. Am I allowed a knife? I'll take a knife.

ASPIRATIONS FOR 5 YEARS TIME:
hopefully be earning enough through music to free up my time to focus on booking and fixing old stuff



Alex Gibbs (drums/Keys)

WHEN DID YOU FIRST START PLAYING:
I started playing when I was about 12, living in the music block in school. 

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: 
- Led Zeppelin, massive attack, Bon iver, Rolling Stones, Tame Impala, the xx. 

DESERT ISLAND DISC: 
Hard to handle - Otis Redding
Dangerous - The XX
Hurricane - Band of Heathens
Feathered Indians - Tyler Childers
Beth/Rest - Bon Iver 
Lay lady lay - Bob Dylan 
Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones 
Good times Bad times - Led Zeppelin

DESERT ISLAND BOOK:
the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov

LUXURY ITEM: 
Piano



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henry sergeant (bass)

WHEN DID YOU FIRST START PLAYING:
I started playing guitar around 16 years old then picked up bass when Mitch asked me to join Dellavega all them years back.

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: 
Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, The Who, The Beatles, Oasis, so many more

DESERT ISLAND DISC: 
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
The Who - Baba O'Reily
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Edwin Starr - War 
The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash 
Oasis - Slide Away 
Kings of Leon - Closer 

DESERT ISLAND BOOK:
Life – Keith Richards

LUXURY ITEM: 
Acoustic guitar

ASPIRATIONS FOR 5 YEARS TIME:
Somewhere on the road with the boys, WORLD TOUR !!

Final word:
HIPPOPOTAMUS 
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