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Formed in early summer 2001 by myself (ross) and riley, the band was originally going to be a four-piece punk rock combo, with our friend James, who would sing and play rhythm guitar, and a drummer, who we were struggling to find. At this stage we were called where's chucky? however, james soon dropped out, due to the fact that he was too scared to sing, and was not really committed to the band. so we were left drummerless and singerless. we soon found a saxophone player by the name of warren, who also introduced us to his then girlfriend, hannah, who became our first drummer, and so we metamorphosed into my friend deryck, a skapunk band heavily driven by riley’s clinical need to play ska every 5-10 minutes. we were singerless for a time, and made little or no progress with song writing. We then acquired beth as a second sax player, we found our first singer in the form of jaymini, a friend of mine and riley’s. however, she did not stay in the band for long, as a serious lack of commitment, and being more interested in having sex with her boyfriend rick, meant that she only turned up to a few practices. we dropped her in the nicest possible way, and were once again singer less. We had reached a dead end, and after 6 or so months, still had no songs of any quality written. my friend deryck split up in october 2001...

however, the next day, I announced to riley that I was going to start a new band from the ashes of my friend, along with beth and a random guy called pacey who showed up with a guitar and a stooped grin one day. He was plenty eager to join, and so we ditched warren and hannah (who are two of the least punk rock people you could ever meet, although still pretty cool) without actually informing them of the fact. We still haven't told them to this day. So we were drummer less and singer less again. pacey's versatility meant that he easily took up sticks behind the drum kit (still not sure how he learnt to play drums on the cruddy kit we had and with xylophone sticks) but we were still short a singer. kind of a vital component missing. then in steps beth’s schoolmate sharpey. Having heard him sing for just a few short seconds, myself and riley were glad that we had decided not to make me sing. sharpey joined us, and so half inch heroes was born. with the writing of our first song, "second opinion", we firmly established our direction. lovelorn but never sentimental. punk rock, but never forgetting melody. how the ataris would be if kris roe had grown up in dartford.

then after a few months of playing and shouting obscenities (mostly pacey doing the shouting) in steps a friend of me and riley’s, “goc” with her amazing jinja ninjaness and an addiction to ska almost to rival riley’s (i must press that these two combined create an unnatural love for ska) as well as bringing probably the worst guitar ever to destroy songs she kicked our ass in gear and lined up a gig, (thus made the band poo themselves in realisation that we were indeed appalling by any standards) then pacey dragged in a smoking sax player who went by the name of mike. And everything kinda fell into place, (you must realise that up until now Beth had only made one toot on her sax since she joined!) hiding behind mike, beth had the confidence to play (thankgod)

And so along with a few “skank support” mates (lovely, sexy and amazingly wikimungo girls that are generous enough to feed us jelly tots and skank when it is necessary at practise with us) a comic friendship was built based on moosik!! But mostly bundles!!

Half Inch Heroes are now an 7-piece ska band who are ready to get the masses skanking.

ross and pacey, may 2002

"groupie of the month"

!!!charley barney!!!

barney has been with us from the start! (anyone who was at the t.wells gig in tuesday will know her,as she got pulled up on stage) shes a garrenteed skank starter.. twisted skank starter she has been to "almost" all our gigs and "almost" all our practises. so a hooge biggitup! for charley barney! we would have a pic but shes too damn camera shy!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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