The Also Eden story goes back to 1993, when vocalist Huw Lloyd-Jones moved from his native South Wales to Cheltenham and — looking for like minded people to hang out with — answered a ‘singer wanted’ ad in the local paper.
With nearly an album’s worth of material written, the two started to think about playing live and recruited local musicians to form an actual band, ‘Eden’.
The band started searching for a replacement and recruited Rich Harding as their new vocalist, quickly moving forward with the EP ‘Differences As Light’.
It’s to his eternal credit that Rich not only survived a life-threatening crash but actually managed to record an album, ‘Think of the Children!’, for release in 2011, as well as perform live while still recovering.
During this period Also Eden’s revolving door continued to spin with both Dave and Steve leaving in 2012, replaced by Lee Nicholas and Graham Lane.
With Simon as the principal creative force, album number four, ‘Redacted’, followed Ian’s departure, with keyboard duties being handled by Andy Davies and Howard Sinclair (who also played live with the band).
Dave, though now based in The Netherlands, was keen as was Steve Dunn, though he was forced to pull out due to work commitments and Graham from the latest, latent lineup was recruited.