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Late in 2001 The Evenings were formed by three young like-minded music enthusiasts, Mark Wilden, Tom Maitland and Mary Thomas. The three recorded the Let's Go album over the winter of 2001/2 with homemade instruments, primitive samplers and obsolete computers, and released it on their own Concourse Recordings label in a limited run of about twenty copies. The band probably would have stopped there, but for Wilden's increasing enthusiasm for live music in and around Oxford, UK - the proving ground for bands like The Rock of Travolta, Dive Dive, The Young Knives, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies and Fell City Girl - and an enthusiasm to see how far The Evenings could be pushed. Thomas and Maitland, having no interest in performing live, parted ways with The Evenings in the summer of 2002 just as Wilden performed the first Evenings show with nothing but a laptop, a microphone and a drum kit. It wasn't very good. Luckily for The Evenings, [aritst]Sexy Breakfast's Phil Oakley (bass guitar) and Sebastian Reynolds (keyboards) were watching the gig and realised immediately that the band would be much better if they joined. This quickly proved to be true. Suitable Case For Treatment's Jimmy Evil (guitar) and The Brickwork Lizards' [aritst]Bruce Douglas (percussion, drum machine) soon followed, and became semi-permanent fixtures in a fluid lineup that for several years never repeated itself for two consecutive performances. Other occasional additions included dancers The Uninvited Gue