The Piglet Biters
From day one, the 'Piggies' formed with the intention of playing some great music and having some serious fun around the pubs and clubs of London and the Home Counties. We’re proud that for several years back in the 80s, we not only had a fantastic time... we like to think that our audiences did too! On our night we could certainly 'burn' with the rest of them... something we truly intend to replicate at ‘an evening for Amy’.
July 11th is a very special reunion for us... and each and every one of the band members were keen to be involved in such a wonderful charity. Nobody needed to be asked twice – we’re looking forward to the event immensely! 
Wayne Gevaux: lead vocals
Wayne is definitely the 'smooth operator' of the outfit!! Cool calm and collected, quiet but confident. Never known to get into a flap about anything. Has a knack for showin' up the rest of the boys with his fashion statements including a rather natty pair of 'Sergio Taccini' shorts when the rest of the chaps were in their 'Matalan' end of run specials!! Now resides in sunny Australia which I believe is even further than Margate. It matters not a jot though as 'Sergio' is returning for our gig at the Fairfield Halls!! Fast cars and beer are Wayne’s thing so we will have a Lada limousine and a tin of Carling waiting for him at 'Eafrow for when he arrives HOME!! I know we are spoiling him but hey! He's worth it!! Without Waynes effort to come home though, this show would not be happening so we are all eternally grateful to him and his family.
Jonny Wilks: Lead Guitar
Most bands have a gobby self centred guitarist somewhere in their midst and this band is no exception. IT consultant by day and guitarist by night, Jonny has been plank spanking for more than 30 years. Although a resident of Hampshire, he grew up and went to school in the Croydon area and even worked at the Fairfield Halls as a spotlight operator during his late teens. The 80s saw him playing an various progressive rock bands at a time when they were seriously out of fashion. It was during this time that he met Pete, Phil and Wayne and and the Piglets were born.
Phil Mitchell: bass guitar
Phil ‘The Worrier’ Mitchell plays the one with the thick strings (except the thickest one). Phil won his title ‘The Worrier’ for good reason. He was the one who was normally involved in the sound and equipment and in those days we could ill afford anything of quality or indeed reliability! Most of it ended up in the Thames. He was the one who normally got stressed about it too!! Very un-rock’n’roll. He was also the one who had to get the money at the end of the night!! Always very proud of the guys he played with in the ‘Piggies’, he is eternally grateful to all the lads and crew for wanting to be inolved in this event. Phil considered himself the least talented in the band and when asked the best way to get into a band, Phil would reply ‘Get a Van!, that should guarantee a bass playing spot anyway!’ As his son David (13) is currently in remission from his second term of Acute Myloid Leukaemia, Phil is passionately involved in this event and dreams of our night being a huge success for all concerned. He is deeply grateful for all the help and advice the band have received so far and for all the support that has materialised along the way.
Ian Osborne: keyboards
That old thought that keyboard players were the quiet reserved types stops right here!! Welcome to the bands residential 'nutter'!! Brutally honest Ian will cut you to peices with his wit and charm. If you have as much as a pimple, you are going too 'get it' from our Ian. His futile behaviour undermines his obvious intelligence and talent but that comes a very distant second to his life of being the bands 'lunatic' Never ever get into any kind of slanging match with him as you will lose! Guarenteed!! Quaffs 'Stella' like it's going out of fashion and gets much worse and the night lingers on. Not one for 'prima donna's' or ego merchants, Ian will bring you back down to earth in seconds if you so much as even think your good enough. If you need him though, he will be there for his mates.
Leo ‘Crispy’ Brown: drums
The 'youngster' of the band, 'Crispy' as he known to the lads, is, like our Jonny, one of the bands gentlemen. An talented 'tub thumper', he now resides in sunny Devon running his recording studios 'Mojo Studios' but would not dare let the 'Piglet Biters' anywhere near it!! Solid and reliable timekeeper is our Leo! We'll have to get him out of his 'West Country' mode for this one though! Like Wayne, not easily flustered and takes things in his stride. The only fault that we can find with Leo is his support of his beloved QPR!! With three Palace fans and a Millwall keyboard 'erbert to contend with, he stands his ground very well!!
Pete Davis
Peter was born a hapless child of a one television channel family and the unlikely result of a liaison between the Bearded Lady and a dog juggling Dwarf from Chippendales circus [very poor performers but beautiful seating] a kind of freak accidental birth. His formative years were spent living in Bromley's notorious Deep South being fed a range of Quiches and learning over a 100 recipes for Butternut Squash. Took his first steps into the Business that we call Show as second Triangle in the fledgling Sooty Show-Band, but Ousted along with all the other so called subversives in the Free Jazz Octet when the bear wanted, under the instruction of his on stage partner, to clean up the act and go more mainstream in what is still spoken about hushed tones as "The Night of the Clean Sweep". He first met Phil, when the latter had his own small timber business, and Peter stopped to buy a box of matches from him. At that time Peter's ambitions to make it as an international monopoly champion were sadly thwarted when he missed out on a £200 prize and a lengthy period in jail ensued, upon release a series of dead-end jobs first at a Gas-works and then with an electric company neither ignited or illuminated a worthwhile career path. Faith was restored via frequent visits to a spiritual centre in SE 25 and things began to look up. Impressed by his joint abilities to drink close to his own body weight [as it was then rather than as it is now] in pints of Wythenshawe Nut Rotting Peculiar Old Home Brew and carry heavy objects between a van and a pub and back again a few disappointing hours later whilst dropping very few of them, Phil offered Peter the "opportunity " to be a casual roadie, a deal that was sealed when his unique ability the "Spin It In " was revealed in Brixton Car-Park. From a short list of candidates (no else was interested) Peter found himself acting as a sometime knob twiddling (un)sound Man in a variety of quality venues around Sarf East London with occasional visits to the Home Shires. Famous for his honest appraisals of the Band's talents Peter would often be heard advising music loving punters to relocate to a different venue to protect their own sensibilities although he himself could sometimes be seen almost enjoying the 2nd half of the show, perhaps the effect of the Wythenshawe's was kicking in, or maybe it was the realisation that the aural torture would soon cease, who can tell but an arthritic representation of Michael Philip Jagger's Circa 1965 dance has been witnessed on more than one occasion. During the period whilst the band have been enjoying a sojourn, a hiatus and extended break or have been doing bugger all, Peter has busied himself with further visits to his spiritual home studying closely the teachings the elders of the community and learning from the Highs Lows and Subterranean troughs. He stronger, wiser and certainly older and finally ready to enter the Maelstrom of uncertainty will undoubtedly feature as a part of the return of the Piglet Biters.
Steve Osborne: crew
Oz the Allnighter is a worn out, 60 year old groupie, mind like a razor, body of a God (Budha), soul of a stamp collector, need I say more......................
