Bio

[code][/code] G’Day, I’m Zen and I am a singer songwriter for The End Times Band. I started writing when I was 13 years old and my first decent song was Trials & tribulations. Since then I have written so many songs, some I have forgotten. I’ve been in a few bands as a youngster and they folded not long after they were formed. I have lived in MT Druitt, New South Whales Australia for 36 years and it has always been my dream to be in a band and sing my songs. I am a bricklayer by trade and I learnt the trade because I knew I needed something to fall back on if nothing ever came of music. Now my back is worn out from bricklaying so I can’t perform my trade anymore. I have always considered myself a protester so to speak and a lot of my songs cover things from the environment to love songs and good old fashioned rock n roll. I am now 42 years of age and because of the tools widely available today I can record at home and on computer, digitally. I can now show my stuff to the world wow what an audience. No better stage than the internet. Now we can have a recording studio in our back pockets guys & girls. My influences have been the best stuff:Moody Blues, Dooby Brothers, Supertramp, Matt Finish, The beatles Pink Floyd stuff like that. Hi I’m Paul the bass player, I remember being school captain in primary school and also playing football, I loved music and would play all my sisters pop music, and sing along with my best buddy at the time, it wasn’t until high school about fifteen that I got my first guitar, brought by my mum and sister and started learning and teaching myself, it was a troublesome time in my home, and being sent to a catholic school away from all my mates, didn’t help. After yr ten, I started to rebel and hang out with another group who were right into punk music scene from the UK and America, it was only just starting in Australia, I played in two bands, Anti-Hierarchy and Itchy Rat, that only lasted about four to five yrs and took away many of my friends from the scene, then my interests started to change to more rock n roll and pub bands. I also worked as a carpenter, and would jam on the weekends, but never really get anywhere with it, slowly my music interests started to change again as I met Grahame and began to explore his original music and this is where I picked up bass, which I wasn’t to keen on at the time I might add, this went on for the next twenty yrs or so jamming in his bedroom and occasionally doing a gig and playing with other musicians. Next we both came into some money and got ourselves some recording equipment and were finally able to here our music digitally recorded on CD, during this time just grahame and myself stuck together and I started to record all my own original ideas, this was also a time of spirituality and exploring myself. I am now forty two and have always believed in what we were playing and the quality of Grahame’s songwriting, so we’ve been a bit hot and cold with it over the yrs and now we are still in there having a go as we find it relevant to all that is going on in the world. Hi I'm Andrew, I guess you could call me a bit of a late bloomer, as I could actually play the drums when I was 7 years old (The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt, by the Shadows) but as no one encouraged me to follow it up I let it slip. 20 years later I'm on a short term missionary trip to Indonesia when the church worship team leader hears me sing and wants me on the team! After about a month or so of singing I'm eyeing off the drum kit telling God that I want to play the drums. Well, if you know God at all, the doors opened and I've never looked back. I still sing occasionally, sometimes while I'm drumming! No surprise then that I like Phil Collins' music! I'm also partial to Traveling Wilburys and also great singers like Roy Orbison and even Russell Watson. That guy can sing! Growing up in St Marys during the 80's I was a full on Midnight Oil fan but I've mellowed and matured a bit since then, got married and had 4 kids. Recently one of my drum student’s got into Weird Al Yankovic. I'm a big fan. Not only because I like to enjoy music but also because there are some great tunes but the original lyrics are, well, questionable for a young Christian family and Weird Al makes it possible for my kids to enjoy the music too. Not to mention his warped sense of humor which is like mine! I admire his drummer a lot as he has to play all sorts of styles from grunge to polkas. I really appreciate a drummer that can play almost anything. I can also appreciate good solid head banging stuff too like Power Station (remember them?) I have also absorbed my big brother's influence. He's had 35(gulp!) years on and off playing for various pub bands both here and in our native England. I would really like to be able to play half as good as people like Akira Jimbo, Vinnie Coleuta(I think that's how you spell it), Chad Smith, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Paul Lime ,Billy Ward. What I would really like to do though before I die is record a CD so I can show it off to my kids and their kids, not only to say I did it but so they can appreciate it and be inspired by it like I have been by other, far more talented people than me which includes my brother. Rock and Roll On a whole we are a progressive group and we use specialist guitarist and musoe's at times for different projects.