Intro

Opium Toad are a band based in Radcliffe-on-Trent, a large village just outside Nottingham. When exactly we formed is up for debate, sometime in 2006 is a decent estimate but we only really took on the name Opium Toad in early 2008. What we play could generally be described as Rock but we are big fans of other genres which we like to incorporate into our music. Usually when a band says something like that they mean that they are gonna just play some pop punk stuff which they like to pass off as rock, rest assured that is not what we do. All we can really say at this point is that we play what we come up with that sounds good and all come from a background of mixed rock and metal which will show as influencing our music as we write and record more songs.

Line Up

Full Name: Lawrence Lucas
Nickname: Lozz(ypop-pie)
Instrument: Drums
Other Skills: A bit of Flash animation, much confidence
Unofficial Skills: Overactive Fail Gland, Good at guitar hero (we're waiting for someone to destroy him at it)
Mini Bio: Started playing drums all on his own, slowly followed by the other members of the band. Seems to fall over a lot.

Full Name: Krischan Newell-Büll
Nickname: Sharny
Instrument: Rhythm Guitar
Other Skills: Web site stuff
Unofficial Skills:
Mini Bio: Picked up learning to play guitar around half a year after Lawrence's voyage into learning the drums. Despite this, he doesn't practice enough (self admitted) and so is behind his former understudy in terms of guitar skills.

Full Name: Kieren Douglas
Nickname: Tubb/Tubbster/Tubby
Instrument: Lead Guitar
Other Skills: None, just very good at guitar
Unofficial Skills: Grumpiness
Mini Bio: Decided to play guitar half a year after Sharny but through a combination of a much higher level of dedication and probably more inate talent quickly overtook Sharny in terms of guitar skills. Luckily he's not good at anything else otherwise he'd make the rest of us feel bad.

Full Name: Nicholas Holmes
Nickname: Nick
Instrument: Bass
Other Skills: Photoshop/Art/Design Stuff
Unofficial Skills: Not looking after his picks
Mini Bio: Started playing bass because we needed a bassist. Yes, literally. Despite this rocky start he is well on his way to bass grooviness.

Full Name: Sam Taylor
Nickname: Taylor/Talyor the Adventurer
Instrument: Vocals/Keyboards
Other Skills: Musical Theory
Unofficial Skills: Rape, mostly of men. He's trying to drop the gay image though. It's not working
Mini Bio: Roped in to sing for us he turned out to fit right in as part of the Opium Toad group. Known for molestation of other band members and people.

Full Name: Sam Toplis
Nickname: Sam (Sammy T)
Instrument: Additional Guitars/Red Hoodie /Backing Vocals/Random Shit
Other Skills: Well, he does enough already by the looks of that list. Also, his dad can make us T shirts, now that's a good reason to have a band member!
Unofficial Skills: Rampant Racism with his dad and gay lover Tubb
Mini Bio: The latest addition to Opium Toad, drafted in as a replacement for Sharny during his trek to the USA it looks like Sam may have more to offer. Who knows?!

History

A long time ago, in a Bedroom on the outskirts of Radcliffe. The first member learnt to play the drums. Soon followed by the second member, Krischan, who started learning guitar. Soon his abode was filled with the sound of out of beat drums and the piercing sound of feedback. After Lawrence and Krischan jammed a few times Tubb decided to pick up a guitar and joined in with the jamming sessions. They soon "asked" Nick to join them. By that we mean that we forced him to start playing Bass. After a long while of random practising lacking a vocalist Lawrence recruited Harrison Ball to do some vocals. A few practices later we realised that this arrangement wasn't the best for either of us so we parted ways with Harrison. A short while later we grabbed Talyor (the adventurer) to do our vocals and haven't looked back. Since then we have played live a couple of times and once everyone's exams are finished will be looking to finish writing the songs we have in the works and playing lots more gigs.