In 1992 the divide started life in its original format. The original members were, in no particular order:

Elliot - Bass guitar, left to go to university, works in some 9-5 job in the lakes now.
GizMo - Drums, left for a medical procedure which lets say ... changed his gender!
Terry - Rhythm guitar and keyboards, now in tele sales!
Billy - Vocals, Rhythm guitar - recently deceased, drug related he was 34 and my brother in law!
Paul - Vocals, song writer and lead guitar - Yours truly and the only member remaining from the ordinal line up.

We originally played rock/blues covers, but a couple of the guys in the band had heard a couple of my songs and suggested we try those as well. I brought along a couple of songs, played them for the rest of the band most of whom liked them. From then on we played more and more of the songs I had wrote. Billy had a couple of good songs, and used to help me write the lyrics for mine, he had his own songs but never felt they were good enough. I disagreed, but he would prefer me not to let the band play them, so I didn't. I will record one of his songs one day before I forget it, he never recorded any and so only my memory of them remains.

In and around 1996 we had gone through various line-ups and settled down to a solid 5 these were in no particular order

John - Bass guitar, current bass player
'little' Paul - Drums, drummer and still the same gender, with apparently no wish to change.
Terry - Rhythm guitar and keyboards
Billy - Vocals and rhythm guitar
Paul - Vocals and guitar, yours truly

With this line we played several gigs around our local area, and built up quite a following, people would come make noise and listen to us play, some great gigs were had, some fun times. Then in 1997 Paul and John had to go to uni for three years. This put the band on hold, Billy was getting heavily into drugs, and Terry really wasn't that interested any more. I sat around played at home and wrote a couple of songs, but generally took a break from music.

Anyway once Paul an John returned from uni around 1999 they called me up to ask if I would be interested in reforming and playing again. I wasn't at all sure but I decided I would start again, this time without Billy and Terry. John's girlfriend Sue came along and we decided that we could use her vocals on some of the songs, and she was prepared to play a little keyboard, so we are now a four piece band, this line up currently is as follows:

Paul - John - 'little' Paul - Sue

It took a while to get back into things, and nearly two years later I am fully enjoying playing the guitar and writing songs again. It is my intention to record as many songs as I can over the winter, and then once the weather gets a little warmer we will gig again in the summer time.

- Paul