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Boy on a Dolphin
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from the website Sheffield, England. JOHN REILLY- Lead Vocals/ Acoustic Guitar/ Lyricist ANDY NEEDHAM - Bass Guitar PETE HILEY - Lead Spanish and Electric Guitars DARREN FORD - Drums JAMES JARWARDANA - Piano/Keys (Joined Oct 2005) “Songs! Songs! THE SONG! That’s all there is for me. I’m not interested in all the rest of the stuff.” Says Dolphin front man JOHN REILLY, who then goes on to quote Charlie Parker. “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out” He continues, “So it has to be real or it’s just spitting out nuts and bolts…….maybe that’s my excuse for being less than prolific. How do you describe BOY ON A DOLPHIN?.......Well now we have a problem that has dogged their whole career. Ok, mmm, acoustic based –yes. Melodic, er definitely. Warm, moving, intimate, personal, yes personal! They have an uncanny way of making you feel that a song is directed at you personally. My advice is to switch off your phone, sit in a dark room and listen to the track TRAPEZE from their new album BARKERS POOL to THUNDER BAY. You will leave the room deeply moved and aware in your own mind of whom and what BOY ON A DOLPHIN are. In the early nineties Reilly was training and riding Dolphins at the world renowned Tibshull Aquatic Centre and playing with Sheffield band Ministers of Inspiration, when together with Bassist ANDY NEEDHAM he decided to form a new band, adapting his own nickname, Dolphin boy to BOY ON A DOLPHIN and creating
