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Joff Winks Band
5+ albums
indierockProgressive rockinstrumentalFusion
about
Joff was born just as punk was becoming new wave and 'Star Wars' had been out for little under a year. He learnt stuff at school and found the film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' to be quite revelatory. By the age of six he had started guitar lessons, and thus followed much practice and the listening to of much that was fine in the way of rock, with Dylan, Neil Young, Bowie and Hendrix particularly high on the list. By his late teens Joff had begun writing, playing and gigging in his first fledgling bands. Following a trip to New York Joff's song writing went into overdrive and he began compiling songs onto a 4 track cassette recorder that eventually became a 3 track machine for reasons only it knows. This taught Joff a valuable lesson in economy. Even so, some of these early recordings would a few years later receive their radio debut on an Xfm unsigned session. Working at his home near Oxford Joff has developed a perspective from which to write, avoiding many of the clichés of current pap sorry, pop music. To this end some of the things that Joff has chosen to write about include: kite flying, train theft, and growing things in his garden. But songs need a band, and as lovely as a lone voice and guitar can be they are simply no substitute for bashing bass and drums, and he needed a keyboard player as well. Fortunately, sometime in the early 80's, in the Paddock's Playgroup somewhere near Oxford, just after milk time, probably in the sand pit, Joff met one. Howev
