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I nicked this from their website - don't understand a word myself but you've got to stay current?

flash : composer, percussion & drums

1966 - 2104

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the longest surviving member of the band 'ist', Mark 'Flash' Haynes carried the torch for his band's particular brand of blackly-humorous, deeply intelligent music for the best part of a century. On joining ist in 2001, he was already a drummer and sexual athlete of some experience, often referred to as the 'Freddie Mercury' of drummers, exuding an animal magnetism that men, women and, often, inanimate objects found hard to resist.

He was at heart, however, a simple man with simple tastes. He claimed to have inherited his innate sense of rhythm from his father, also a life-long drummer and his tolerance for all humankind save insurance salesmen and idiots from his mother.

He was a man of contradictions: a happy family man with ten children, who campaigned fearlessly for Gay Rights and a drummer who read books.

Flash was knighted in 2047 for services to drummers.

After the death of his band mates he continued to work in music for the rest of his life and was on his seventieth subsequent band when he died, of extreme annoyance, in 2104.

LOGO (Internation Music Magazine) April 2004
Reviewed by Michael Ornadet (3.5 Star Rating) : "Though it’s currently de rigeur - almost, in fact, compulsory - for bands to tap into the spirit of the sixties, the touchstones rarely stray from the Byrds/Hollies/Summer of Love template, or Big Star/Beatles power-pop. Far more interesting would be a foundation built on the ever-expanding consciousness of Jimi Hendrix, or the slowly collapsing outlook of Syd Barrett, and it is the latter that Leicester’s ist most closely resemble. It’s not that they’re wilfully obtuse or overtly psychedelic, more a feeling that they could have been standing in the shadows, taking notes at the UFO club in ’67. Though it’s played straight, opener ‘This Is Where We Came In’ seems to swirl in lysergic mist, thanks to Jack Bomb’s keening guitar jangle and a voice that comes from the right then taps you on your left. It’s a trick they repeat across each of these twelve tracks, massaging classic Brit-pop and clichéd power-pop into shapes that would look equally ridiculous in either leather or a kaftan. Think instead where popular music might have gone had The Beatles given George Harrison his head and drafted Syd in for inspiration."

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