Artist description Staff from Highfield School, Liphook (www.highfieldschool.org.uk)

Music Style Easy rock

Musical Influences Abba, Queen, Oasis, Robbie Williams etc.

Similar Artists Abba, Queen, Oasis, Robbie Williams etc.

Artist History Formed in 1998 after Ben (guitar) and Stephen (keyboards) agreed it "would be a laugh". Found a vocalist in Tim Goldman and did our first live gig at Highfield at the end of that Summer Term. The next two summers saw further gigs at school, as popular with the parents as with the children! Reluctantly the Fork Handles disbanded when all staff members went their separate ways to new schools. The name, incidentally, comes from that famous Two Ronnies sketch in the hardware shop....

Group Members Stephen Froggatt (keyboards, synth, bass guitar, backing vocals, drum machine programming, MIDI editor and recording engineer) Ben Dixon (Lead guitar, Acoustic guitar, Bass guitar, backing vocals, recording engineer) Tim Goldman (Vocals) Eddy Newton (Vocals after Tim had left) Baz, Kev and the Boyz backstage and of course the enigmatic Valerie....

Instruments Guitars: Acoustic, Lead, Bass; Keyboards (Yamaha / StudioLogic); Roland JV1080 synth; Alexis SR16 Drum machine

Albums 1-2-3-Fork Handles; Handles In The Wind; Music By Handlelight; Handlennium

Press Reviews Four candles? So why are there only three? And why candles? (Highfield School Magazine)

Location Ilford, Essex - United Kingdom

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