Band Profile

INTRAVERSE as we know and love it today arose from the ashes of AXIS and The HAIZE, Tim Pears on drums, Mikey Hurst on bass, Wayne Brummer on guitar, and Max Pepe on vox.

As an outfit the journey started in February of 2000. We went by the name FLEXIBLE - this was mainly because we all loved so many different areas and genres of music we felt we were, yup, you've guessed it...'Flexible'! (genius at work!..I mean really!!) We began, as most bands do, by playing (and perhaps ruining) covers by all of our bestest bands!! Which at this early stage tended to revolve around the likes of Creed, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the odd dose of Korn and James Brown thrown in for laughs >

......through learning these covers we began to grow together quite nicely as a band, and for our age and status we were pretty well respected - or at least we like to think so. We were asked to play at numerous college functions and events, and then eventually started playing regularly at those ex-public lavatories we now know as The Forum! (unfortunately this is of course the Tunbridge Wells Forum, not the London one...shame!)

Since we were getting more and more gigs and growing more and more as musicians, we inevitably started writing our own material, as we began to discover we had the potential to go far with this band (however, only fair to tell you that most of us thought the journey from Crowborough to T.Wells was far at this stage, so maybe not quite as optimistic as initially perceived!!)
As is common throughout the development stage of most bands, our very early material was mostly an exploitation of what we did best, which for us at this time was most definately gratuitous guitar solos, power riffs and a garnish of melodic shouting!!
More gigs proceeded at new venues, mainly local pubs and clubs - like The White Hart in Wadhurst - but none the less, exposure is exposure in whatever form in presents itself, and these early venues have supported all the way and as consequence we still play there today!!
Then, in October 2000 our first bit of luck presents itself... one of the bands in the annual 'Forum Battle of the Bands' dropped out of the final. As we all seperately had a history in the competition we were posted straight into the final, without having to put ourselves through any of the gruelling heats!!
So, we went, we played......and as surprising to us and as sickening to the other bands as it was.....we won!! Beating highly acclaimed acts such as Chunky, Agent Orange, and Me - Hmmmm.

This of course had great benefits; we won three days recording at The Granary Studios along with the production skills of Guy Denning and Nayler! It was at this stage that most bands would snap up the opportunity and get straight into the studio to record some decent material.

However we swiftly discovered that we were certainly not 'most bands' and decided to take the chilled rock & roll approach and not actually book the studio time until November 2001!! - Some things never change!
This did however prove to be a blessing in disguise as it gave us time to write/perfect some of our better early material like 'Witness' and 'People's Paralysis' etc. and recorded five tracks.

We now had lots of gigs under our belts, lots of original material and a CD that swiftly needed a cover design. We felt it was time for a change. The transition from boy to man had begun, no longer would we march through this world under a name that sounded more like the title of a men's health workout suppliment than a band name.

Thus we made the brave decision to enter into 2002 with a new title. We were now to be known as........INTRAVERSE!
The next year or so saw us really start to find ourselves. We decided we wanted to make every song we wrote a mini-masterpiece. We got rid of all the usual conventions associated with songwriting and arragement. We just wanted to fuse all of our passions within music to form the 'Intraverse sound'. Each band member comes from a very different musical background and all have differing musical influences that we bring to the group and inevitably wear off on each member. What began to come out was a hybrid fusion of two predominant genres......Funk and Rock.
By 2003 we had written and recorded a new nine track EP, namely ' Confessions'. We decided to record it at home. This was mainly due to the fact we wanted to sustain complete control over the production and musical interpretation of the album as a concept....ok....who are we kidding...we were SKINT!!
Luckily however through years of home recording and minor training we were able to create a fairly competent effort.

With the strength of this EP pushing us along, our name began to rapidly grow throughout local areas and we started to play at slightly better venues such as Concorde II Brighton, BIMM, Lion in Folkstone etc.

One of the highlights of 2003 at this stage was definately our prime slot at MMM Festival in July, where we played open air in 30 degree heat to over 3,000 punters! That was some gooooood shit! Following this we were approached by numerous managers and Industry people who showed great interest in us.

This has catapulted us up and up. We now play regularly at prestigious London venues such as Hope & Anchor, Dublin Castle, The Garage, The Underworld etc. and have spread our wings as south as Brighton & Hastings, and as north as Leicester & Lancaster.

This detailed history however, is just the beginning. What will truly be INTRAVERSE history is in the making as we speak.
Watch this space.....cause we're gonna take over the world - Cue evil world domination laugh: MU HAHAHAHA MUUU HAHAHAHAHA..........
MAX | WAYNE | TIM | MIKEY
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