TREV VANSTONE - drums

After watching the late great Cozy Powell doing dance with the devil on Top of the Pops Trev wanted to play drums
he kept on nagging the old man to get him a kit. Sure enough on his 15th birthday there it was! With the conditon that he took lessons!
After a couple of years of being taught how to read drum music by jazz tutor Albert Cooper during which time he felt playing along to
Cozy Powell tracks on headphones more helpful (don't give up the one and a two and a kids) it was time to get out there.
His first band a school band called THE AMOEBA played a few local gigs culminating in an apperance at the joiners arms! Being still underage a big thing at the time.
Always free to practice at full volume at home Trev kept at it until the inevitable interuption of a woman and the subsequent arrival of twins put his rock star plans on hold.Not for long though the itch had to be scratched and he joined original material band WHITECHAPEL who gave it a serious go up and down the country in a beat up tranny van playing the likes of the royal standard walthamstow but we soon reliased it was'nt happening so after the removal of the big hair (daddy your a man!) said daughter . That was that.
So next PUB ROCK and Trev played in the Gerry Herne Band with a certain Mr Dave Marshall on bass with a residency in local venue the swan every sunday.Great
practice ( and loads of money NOT )but not really happening.So onto INDECENT PROPOSAL formed with Trev's old school mate who could actually sing John Baker we went on to play anywhere and everywhere ( pay toilets with our own change ) but it had to burn out in the end.
NV came next with Trev and John still on board and Dave giving it a kick in the right direction but after a couple of years Trev decided to knock it on the head
BAD MOVE!! Shortly after CREEP were formed with the addition of Gary Webb on guitar and for the first time Trev got to go and watch the guys he'd played with as apposed to sitting behind them and realised just how good they were!
Trev has now been given the oportunity to play with Creep and for those of you who think it's NV with a different guitar player YOUR WRONG it's CREEP with a new drummer who's revitalised and believes this is the best band he's ever been in

DAVID MARSHALL - bass guitar

David first started playing bass at the age of 14, and immediately joined a schoolboy band, The Pulsators, who played various local youth clubs and staged gigs in their school hall for their fellow pupils, with a set made up primarily of Status Quo and Sex Pistol numbers, along with some original material. At 15 he joined Crossfire, who were playing the pub circuit along the south coast. This band played a set which was made up of 50% rock covers and 50% original songs, which gave him the opportunity to develop his writing skills with both music and lyrics. At 19 he joined Southampton based band Berlin, who were playing mainly original material, gigging at various venues in Southern England and Wales. They had interest from various management and publishing companies, but ultimately nothing materialised and the band finally broke up. After this he went on to join London based band Kingfishers Catch Fire, which featured two founding members of Big Country, Clive Parker and Alan Wishart. This band played original material, gigging in and around London at venues such as Dingwalls in Camden, and the Mean Fiddler in Harlesdon, and received some favourable reviews from the national music press for both live performances and a self-produced EP. In 1989 David was invited to audition for Black Sabbath and was on a short list of three to be the bassist on the Headless Cross world tour, but the job went to Cosy Powell's friend, who was the drummer for Sabbath at the time, Neil Murray of Whitesnake. Immediately after this he joined Jagged Edge, who were managed by Sanctuary Music. They spent three weeks living and rehearsing in Ritz Studios, East Putney, in readiness for a prearranged showcase for the top brass of EMI. When EMI decided not to sign the band he, along with Al Jackman of The Outfield, took up an offer to join up-and-coming rock band After Hours, managed by Mike Oldfield's former drummer Mike Frye, and included amongst its line-up Andy Nye, former keyboard player with the Michael Schenker Group. With this new line-up in place the band flew out to Germany to begin recording the second album at Arco Studios, Munich, with later sessions taking place at Chipping Norton Studios in Oxfordshire. Despite favourable press from the national rock publications and the second album selling very well in Japan the band finally folded. After a short spell with former Ian Gillan keyboardist, Mark Buckle's band Transmit This and some recording work with the then current UFO guitarist Laurence Archer, formerly a member of Phil Lynott's Grand Slam Band, he finally decided on a career change, going back to art college to study graphic design, and now works as a senior graphic designer. However, his love of music has kept him involved in the local music scene, which eventually led to him putting together the band NV, following a mutual respect conversation at a party with well respected frontman/vocalist, John Baker, who at the time was fronting the popular local band Indecent Proposal. After six years the two of them decided it was time to do something new, and so with the opportune timing of guitarist Gary Webb becoming available CREEP was born...