Band Members: 

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John Thompson: Lead Vocals and Drums

 

Alex Hall: Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals                    

Ben Glover: Rhythm Guitar                   

 

Jem Whitehead: Bass Guitar                

 

 

 

                                             

 

 

                                              

 

About 'The Feedback'

 

 

The Feedback was formed back in early 2005 with Smithy, Stead and John. Armed with one song, Green Cross Code, created in RE lessons in Addingham Primary, the band set out with a Casio keyboard, bongos and Rory. Rory soon disbanded to further different interests such as cricket while John and Smith got down to business and wrote 'Walking'. John got a drumkit from a some guy off Antiques Roadshow called Nigel and a half decent keyboard was invested in. Soon though Smithy was asked leave the band on a mutual agreement, due to many a complex reason. With an empty place in the band and with one of the founding members gone we dived into enlisting J Debney on bass; which was the second biggest mistake the band have ever made. Even though with him we wrote 'Addicted', a fairly good song, he was soon removed from the band because no one liked him except Alex. A boy called Simon (D Willox) shortly followed Debney and was unfortunately removed just as quickly. His musical interests were much more hardcore than ours and he prefered drama to guitars. Our path was seperate to his and we had to let him go. As hard, sad and painful as it would be

 

Then Ben joined with a guitar and The Feedback was born. 'Fright' and 'Quit' were soon added to the setlist but after realising that these sounded crap we decided to add Alex to the band. We hopefully improved with both rhythm and lead guitar parts added to songs.

 

But after several months without a bassist we decided we could probably do with one and asked a quality fella called Jem. Unfortunately, he sold us out for an other band and we were distraught. However, Scene Theory (an emo band) would not stop us there and we asked Jem to join us. We commandeared him via an msn chin wag and ,thanks to the help of Sam, he is now the great bassist of the Feedback. 

 

Since Jem's first gig at Scott's party (June 2008) the band entered the Musician's Centre Battle of the Bands and we became the band we are now, after adding 'The' to our name. We sucessfully came joint 3rd in the final- to our suprise and this helped to get our name out there.  After playing several other gigs following the competition, the band got to work and wrote several new songs.

 

The Feedback went to Calder Recording in late February 2009 and recorded the four songs you can hear on this site. We are currently ready to play any gig and are distributing our debut EP.  Although we've technically been going for a while, our setlist now is fairly young , plus the old song Waterproof Smile. We're tring to play as many gigs as possible and are going to the studio again very soon.....

 

Thanks for reading this over dramatic and rather pointless biography.