Band Members

Phil

After joining his first band "Oasis" in 1999, Phil spent his time on the road doing tours and gigs until 2002 when he decided to leave and join "The Red Hot Chilli peppers" which Phil described as a weird experience. After only 6 months Phil then again jumped ship and decided to form his own band "The Libertines". After 2 successful albums Phil decided that enough was enough after getting into serious fights with his band mate Pete Docherty. Although still friends the question on "will the libertines reform" remains a mystery. Phil then decided to work on some solo projects with Simon Crowell only to then form the almighty "Arctic monkeys". In August 2007 Phil then decided that "Guttersnipe" was the band he has always yearned for, and guttersnipe is going strong.

Matt (Buddy)

Buddy Colic (real name Les Miserable), best known for collaborating with his backing band The Rickets, was born in London sometime in the 1850s. Although the exact details of his birth remain a mystery he recounts his earliest memory as being found as a toddler wandering through the streets nearLeicester Square carrying a placard saying “Please look after this little guttersnipe.” Already the seeds of destiny had been sown.

Buddy was immediately placed at the infamous Phonics School for Apathy & Underachievement where he excelled as a model student. On leaving Phonics School Buddy spent a brief period as Nobby Neat’s babysitter before forming a creative and romantic partnership with singer/songwriter Cynthia Roebuck. Cynthia, best known for her 1976 hit ‘The Shoddy Bop’, had a profound effect on Buddy’s creativity and together they penned such classics as ‘After the Rash Has Gone’, ‘Unchain My Ankles’ and the seminal ‘Light My Fart’. Alas the partnership was destined not to last and Cynthia left Buddy accusing him of reasonable behaviour.

It was at this low point of his career that Buddy formed the commercially & critically unrecognised, but nonetheless hugely influential union with The Rickets, one that both reflected and influenced social and political attitudes of the time with such tracks as ‘That’ll Be The Day-Glo’ and ‘Peggy Sued Her Granny’. Indeed Buddy’s influence has been such that he is now considered by many to be the man who put the Les into Beatles.

Despite such accolades his career fell into further decline, which looked terminal until he received a call from his old pal Nobby Neat asking him if he’d like to play bass with Telford punksters Guttersnipe; at last his destiny was sealed.

Nobby

Born in 1863 Nobby is officially the oldest person on the planet still to be involved in live rock and roll. Despite his considerable age Nobby is still capable of hammering out a mean rhythm drummers many years his junior can only dream of emulating. Unhampered by senility, hair loss & colour and a non-existent sense of humour, Nobby continues to perform at the highest level. During the past 121 years Nobby has featured in many bands – too many to mention here, so why exactly did Nobby agree to join Guttersnipe?

When interviewed recently his response was as follows: “…there is only so much bingo a geezer my age can endure so when Pete invited me to join Guttersnipe I jumped at the chance to play drums again. When it comes to knocking out 1977 punk classics no-one does it better than those young chaps from Guttersnipe – I felt honoured to be asked!!”

Brian

Brian was born in 1985 and is the son of legendary Brighton Centre Forward Peter Ward. His formative years were spent under the tutorship of FatBoy Slim in his Shoreham based nursery where the kids were encouraged to break dance, scratch records and get down with the hood.

At the age of 3 Brian wanted a new challenge with his life so moved toAmerica in search of that dream. A chance meeting with Sharon Osbourne in a malibu bar put him in touch with 'Back Street Boys' manager John Wayne Gacy. Impressed by Brian's cool moves and maturity beyond his years John decided to get Brian an audition. He stayed in the band for the next six years and became part of an outfit that had four platinum albums and 6 Top 10 singles in the US billboard charts.

For the next 7 years Brian lived the life of a recluse on a quail farm in the Shetland Isles, selling eggs to the locals to make ends meet. After a chance meeting with his old mate 'Bono' in an American/Irish bar in Lerwick Brian decided to form a new boyband. This was in August 07, the band are called 'Guttersnipe' and the rest they say is history...........

Sweeney

Sweeney was born on the planet Uranus in 1902. His early years were spent wandering around the ether collecting daisy cup petals for his butterfly collection. He was picked up by NASA on a training exercise and relocated to Earth for examination. It became very obvious that this particular specie of alien (lunaticis paininthearsis) bore an uncanny resemblance to neantherdal man.

During one of the many anal probes carried out by the scientists, Sweeney was inserted with the bouncing gene which was later patented by Nike and used in their ‘Air’ trainer design. The only side effect of this medication was a forgetfulness of people’s names which often resulted in calling people by other names or similar to the one they actually had. Once NASA got a new batch of single celled amoeba to examine, Sweeney was dispatched and joined a travelling funfair.

During this time Sean Williams took part in a hook a duck game and came second and thus winning Sweeney, the first prize being two goldfish and a clear plastic bag of water. He was then sold to Guttersnipe for 50 pence and the rest as they say is history.