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Name:
Alan "NEE MONEY!!!" Hudson Instrument: Bass
guitar, acoustic/electric guitar and backing vocals sung with a Geordie accent! Age: A youthful 45 but you're
only as young as the woman you feel!! Previous Bands: Too
many to name them all. Notable mentions go to Hollywood, Crimes Of Passion and White Lies. Influences:
Geddy Lee, Pete Way, Spike Milligan, AOR, beer, beer and more beer!!! Oh, and Daffy Duck.... Favourite drink:
Well, you may have guessed but I'm a beer man! None of that girly lager stuff mind you, only the good, proper stuff! It must
be brown, not too cold, served in a pint glass at one of my favourite watering holes such as the Monkey Bar, the Monkey Bar
or the Market Lane (alias the Monkey Bar!). Oh, the beauty of it, the bliss of that first cool, lingering mouthful on a hot
Summer's day..... Fav Food: If I had to plump for
just one thing it would be my wife's home made broth with dumplings on a cold Winter's evening. It sticks to your ribs (we
noticed!!! - the lads!!), but I'm also partial to anything hot and spicy!! Fav Position: Pardon?! Oh you mean....I
was going to say lying on my back, however I wouldn't mind being at Wembley if the Toon ever won anything there!! Greatest Achievement: Learning my one times table before the age of 30!! However that's been eclipsed
by me becoming a dad for the first time and by the miracle of me still breathing after all these years! Biggest Embarrassment: Still
stuck on my two times table but the therapist assures me that if I keep taking the pills and carry on with my group sessions
and electric shock treatment I'll get there in the end. Describe Yourself in three adjectives: Hopeless,
Hapless and Clueless (and Honest - the lads!!) Current Ailments: Everything that
comes with advancing age, namely, dementia, decrepitude, delirium, etc...... Balding
does not bother me because: It's a bit late now as I'm already half way there!! Besides,
I'm an ugly bar-steward anyway and it's a sign of my rampant virility!! Or so I keep telling myself.... Love is: The
most exquisite pain known to man!! I do not (yet) have a star on Hollywood Boulevard
because: Nobody's asked me yet but then that's because they have yet to discover me
thanklessly suffering for my art to bring joy through ROCK to the poor down-trodden masses!! Anyway, America sucks.... The best thing about being in Borderland
is: ROCK!!! The worst thing about being in Borderland
is: Not enough ROCK!!! My ideal date with Betty Borderland would involve: Cocktails at sunset on a Caribbean beach with the last rays of the sun glistening on the warm
turquoise sea.....and 'she who must be obeyed but rarely is' not finding out!!!!
Name:
Mark "Harry" Harrison Instrument: Vocals, vocals, vocals, whacking
a tambourine, and all round grease monkey. Birthday:
16th November - every year! Previous Bands:
Joker, Red Light Zone, Dead Mans Rattle, Dead Mans Raffle, Wicked Sensation, Wicked, Gicked, Nothing Sacred, Marmaglade, Flat
Back Four, Five Times Faster, Billy & Harrys Acoustic Smouschtic Influences:
Bad ones: the lads!! Good ones (musically): Daryl Hall / Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Howard Hewett, Lou Gramm,
Steve Perry, Rick Springfield, Michael Hutchence. Favourite drink:
I'm a clean living chap who firmly believes you should never pollute anything, therefore I never mix lager
with lime, cider with black, wine with soda etc...Am partial to most ales, particularly a good pint of Guinness and also dig
Four Roses and JD bourbons, plus tequila's good (Marguerita cocktails are go!), vodka Red Bull, Long Island Ice Teas,
South African, Australian and California reds.......how clean can a man be?! Fav Food:
Again being clean living I am highly partial to pizza (Calzone with Bolognese sauce!) as it contains all the main nutritional
food groups required to make the body 'flourish'. Particularly fat, saturated fat, salt, lard.... Fav Position:
At the front of the bar queue with someone elses money. Greatest Achievement: Winning a fancy dress competition when kitted out as Zorro. Aged 6. Biggest Embarrassment: Easy!
That'll be Gav after 4+ pints!! Alternatively, it would be the time I got sloshed at my mothers cheese and wine party and decided to tell all and sundry (neighbours,
friends, relatives etc.) about the dogs major flea problem resulting in much scratching of invisible itches
around the room as they all conjured up their excuses to leave. I was only about 11 at the time but had managed
to sneak more vino into my 'lemonade' than poor ma could possibly have imagined. Then after topping
it all off with a plethora of pickled onions, I awoke early next morning to find everywhere (pillow, quilt,
floor, my hair) coated in a 'beautiful' pile of pickled onion filled vomit!! Lovely... ma was so proud!! However my
friends, I learned a valuable lesson from that intoxicating experience, and I'm almost tearfully proud
to declare that I've now been 'clean' from the disease of eating pickled onions for 25 years.... Describe Yourself in three adjectives: Optimistic, Pessimistic, Confused.... Current Ailments:
Between Gav, Dave and myself we are the stuff of medical scientists nightmares. We are walking (or limping in Gav's case)
miracles and even Jesus wouldn't risk his reputation attempting to 'heal' us. Balding
does not bother me because: I am a part-time Hare Krishna. Love is: Like
Oxygen!! (great song!) I do not (yet) have a star on Hollywood Boulevard
because: she is a tart!!! The best thing about being in Borderland
is: having my own fan club, the Harrison Honeyz!! The worst thing about being in Borderland
is: looking like a potato on the Honeyz merchandise..... My ideal date with Betty Borderland would
involve: a coffee percolator, 3 beach towels, a
set of spanners, and a stuffed armadillo. Didn't we do well?!
Name: Gav "The
Sheriff" Dawson Instrument:
Lead guitar, lead & backing vocals Birthday: 9th
June Previous Bands:
White Lies, Rich, Crimes of Passion, Spook and the Privets(them were the days),
one or 2 others that my lager addled mind cannot remember. Influences: ROCK MUSIC with good melodies, harmonies and guitarists.i.e. Journey, Y&T,
Night Ranger..... so many great bands! Most other popular music is shit! Favourite drink:
Lager, with a bit of lager, thats draft lager. However, if no draft lager it will be bottled lager. Either of which with vodka
and orange chaser or vodka red bull chaser. Or Jack Daniels, who am I kidding.....................as in bands, so many great
drinks, I'll have the lot! Fav Food:
Has to be Indian food, Rogan, Danzak, Madras, The Last Days of Raj up the Fell do a great Tikka Malai which combines hot spices
with a mild yoghurt base - very tasty, especially with tomato pilau and a garlic and coriander nan, ah but who am I kidding.........as
in bands and drink, so many great currys, I'll have the lot! Fav Position:
Sitting on the settee listening to Journey with a bottle of Bud, waiting for my Tikka Malai to arrive. In fact there is a
good plan for tonight! Greatest Achievement: Musically: learned
to sing and play the guitar a bit having been tone deaf in my teens, still loads to learn so ongoing. Biggest Embarrassment:
I could write War and Peace here but this one sticks - many, many years ago waking up after a party at Rigsbys house
for the lads to discover I had had a toilet accident in my strides, after the laughing stopped I persuaded the lads not to
mention it to anyone, then went to the local that lunch time to be greeted by all and sundry with my new nick name "Sheriff
Cactus Pants". Describe Yourself in three adjectives: Quiet. Loud. Quiet. Current
Alements: I have Corona, Bud and Fosters in the Fridge!! Balding does not bother me because: I have seven wigs Love is:
a 4 letter word I do not (yet) have a star on Hollywood Boulevard
because: I have done nothing to warrant it, though everyone laughs at the Sheriff
Cactus story more than some films they have seen. The best thing about being in Borderland: Its a good laugh, and great to get out and blast some ROCK ! The worst thing about being in Borderland
is: Playing music that is not ROCK! but we are getting there. My ideal date with Betty Borderland would
involve: A Journey gig with lager and a curry.
Previous Bands: Folktion, FBI,
Denim DVO, Company B, Deep Freeze, (Almost), Band With No Name Influences: Da Blues!!, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, David
Bowie, Mick Ronson, Lou Reed, Rick James, Wishbone Ash Favourite drink: Red wine when eating, lager at weekends Fav Food: Mousaka Fav Position: Standing, between drums and keyboards! Greatest Achievement: Reaching the 21st Century relatively
unscathed Biggest Embarrassment: Going to a wedding reception
only to realise after a couple of pints it was the wrong one! Describe Yourself in three adjectives: Cool, Enigmatic,
Incomprehensible Current Ailments: SPS (Subdued Passion Syndrome)!! Balding does not bother me because: I have generous amounts
of hair elsewhere. Love is: Spoilt when sex raises its ugly head. I do not (yet) have a star on Hollywood Boulevard because:
I think Tinseltown sucks (I haven't been....). The best thing about being in Borderland is: not having
to spend months thinking up a band name The worst thing about being in Borderland is: I don't
like the name! My ideal date with Betty Borderland would involve: Sharing
a post gig kebab with chili sauce and salad. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN..... Previous band members:
Instrument: Keyboards, lead and backing vocals Instrument: Acoustic & electric guitar
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