Valley Forge & The Weary Band

Valley Forge started sometime in the last century with Tim and Alex recording songs on a 4-track cassette player. In early 2001 Phil joined on drums, and for a while they played with Aron on bass. When Aron left he was replaced by Matt Modget, who within a week of joining was playing onstage with the 'Forge in Paris. The band still have this show on video tape - all the songs were played at illegally fast speeds - the tempo cops chased them through the streets that night - but they never caught them.

A year, and a few gigs passed when Matt decided, like his predecessor that 6-strings good 4-strings bad, so the band auditioned again, only to choose a friend - Tom, who played with the band for the 2003/04 season, where The Weary Band were introduced in order to play some more of Tims' 200+ back catalogue of songs. They often supported themselves at gigs, playing a greedy total of more than 24 songs a night. The duality was met with appreciation by audiences and even journalists - yet the A&R men who had descended upon the band like "a veritable smog" were mightily confused.

Late in 2004 Tom left due to "musical indifferences", and the band continued as a 3-piece and finished recording an debut album themselves (half weary, half valley) that was to be released on an independent label just before summer 2005, with a preceding single "Sunshine & Gold" - but the record company turned out to be wolves in sheeps' clothing (the sharp teeth should have given it away) and nothing happened.

The band enjoyed a brief stint as a five (and sometime 6) piece band with the fiddle/flute/piano/'cello playing of the Porter sisters - Hannah and Beth, and the newly recruited Andy on bass - but eventually streamlined down to Tim, Alex, Phil and Andy.

Valley Forge / The Weary Band are now recording an EP/album at Liverpools' Ranch studios, it should be released in early 2007.