band... and found an old ad of Chandy's on the net somewhere.

For a while it was the four of us, then I met Goshi in a Weatherspoons in Cambridge (2002ish). My mates failure at trying to impress a pretty girl who was sitting on Goshi's lap with my new found knowledge of indian music got Goshi and I trading numbers ... Chemise had played in rockbands with mel when he was 18 in his hometown of Dunnmow... he joined when he moved to Cambridge (2002) and hit it off with me (at first we were writing acuostic duets together)... Scott joined recently through another band Mel was playing in in Cambridge....also Goshi left us in 2003 to study for five years in Edinburgh, when he returned we werethe Victorian era—brings these two worlds together and has created a vibrant community of articulate, imaginative and open minded people—a hotbed for new ideas.

At the moment Steampunk draws heavily on the Victorian age founded on colonialism and the wealth of the empire. This is a period full of inconsistencies and contradictions for me. I grew up trying to make sense of tales of the heroic feats of the Duke of Wellington on the one hand and on the other, of the suffering and cruelty inflicted on Tipu Sultan. So for me it is important to reconcile two sides of a story and to understand and actually celebrate the shared heritage of Britain and India. Steampunk offers a new way of looking at this period.

What do you consider the