Dyax 2 the band
When Dyax Mk1 ceased to be, it left Tony and I with nothing else better to do and so we decided to continue to write music together amongst other projects. I continued to flit from one band to another trying desperately to recapture the stage. I hooked up with a talented young lad called John Jo who went on to form a band and win the Scunthorpe Rock open, he's now a DJ working in Saudi. We wrote a few songs together but nothing more became of it. I saw another young band practicing one day and thought they might be able to use my experience and so it was that I joined them. I wrote several songs for this again high energy band. We called ourselves SMART which was made up from the first initial of our christian names. We recorded a dozen or so tunes in the singer's lounge but they are not suitable for putting on this site. We had one gig at Doncaster College and then split. So it was that Tony and I reunited and recruited a bass/keyboard player and a young 15 year old singer for our next project that was to become Dyax2. Later we got a drummer to complete the line up for live work. This whole project was going to be complicated from the outset as Tony and I had already written a lot of songs but it was going to be very tricky to get our orchestrated songs into a format suitable for live performances. But we managed it. The recordings you will hear below were done before the drummer joined but we did manage with remarkable skill to gig these songs and many more with complicated keyboard parts. We practiced for a nearly 2 years before we gigged. But the problem was that both the girls were at college and buggered off to university not long after we started gigging. I never had the opportunity to record a live gig which remains a great shame as these recordings here only hint at the enormous sound we achieved.
Guitars - Mark and Tony
Vocals - Emma, Tony and Mark
Keyboards - Jaime
Bass Guitar - Jaime and Tony
Drums - Chris
Music and lyrics for all the compositions below were written my myself except Space Oditty which is a David Bowie composition
Acoustic version
We opened gigs with this
Very dodgy recording
