Andrew has been part of Mainland since it crawled out of the marsh in the late 80's and is widely regarded as the "folkie" of the band. Going through various musical "periods", including violent swings from Latin pop through to a rather questionable Gregorian miserable chant type of period.
Also taking in mainstream pop and the classics, his current fad lies somewhere in a Northern Highland bog with Gaelic gouls and tartans as influences!
He describes his guitar role as textural and complimentary to the band's big sweeping sounds and hopes to explore guitar synthesizers soon.

David is the "Blues bod" of the band and writes a new song every nineteen years in the face of great traumatic anguish and pain which everybody laughs at. But do not underestimate this lad: he is the very foundation of the Mainlandsound. Supply the band a huge P.A. system and you will hear the massive keyboard building bricks that will knock you over!
Davids main aim, however, is to collect dust on his equipment and to own as many broken stands, mikes, cases and bits of wire as possible.
David is quite strange, and therefore it is logical that he is a teacher. Ask him the capital of Scunpipier...

Tim is the undisputed mother of Mainland. As well as being creative on the skins, he irons a mean shirt and is always tidying the Mainland shed. He insists on cooking all the food when the others decide on a band tuck-in...
...Unfortunately, all of this is untrue apart from the drum bit!
Tim, in effect, founded Mainland and is the driving force behind its activities. The drums are big and the sound is big, but obviously with a fully dimensional sound such as the band has, a pipsqueak hitting a tin is hardly the ticket!
Tim drives a hard bargain, but is a deary on the dance floor!

Jeanette, like Paul, is a new bit of Mainland. After considering lucrative offers from other bands and ensembles, she decided it was time to not earn any money, be at the mercy of critics and generally begin a life of misery, pain and personal strife... but as it happens she and Tim get on well!
Much material was obviously written before Jeanette joined, but with her powerful and creative style some songs have been reinvented and the others are all agreed that the vocal end of the band has never been so strong. Jeanette is also keen to provide input for new compositions and lyrics which, again, has given a new angle to the band.
Jan... keep those bellows blasting. She's always the last at the bar on Mainlandreal ale binges - slightly bonkers but alwasys the first to get the beers in. Cheers love, mines a pint of lager - again!

Paul joined the band in '98 and is now fully involved with writing and arrangements. Gradually slotting in with Tim's drums, his own interpretations of older Mainland compositions has given the band a solid and powerful drive with an inventive texture which in the past was sometimes lacking.
Now the Bass is a creative force in itself... clever bugger!
One very important aspect of Pauls contribution to Mainland is that he understands all manner of things that happen under the bonnet of a car. This makes David very happy, who has no concept of this area at all.
Good old Paul, he is of the smouldering eyelash (lock up the vicar's daughter), a decent type of chap who will often be pushed to the front og queues when confronted by marauding undesirables. A lovely boy... please check the old distributer and remember... everything starts in 'A'.