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TOBY'S FIRST
MYSPACE BLOG
December 18th 2006
(As posted on MySpace Blog on
December 18th)
The Toby Jepson Story So Far
I was 20 years old when I was part of a British Band 'The Little Angels'. We
signed to Polydor records in the spring of 88 and spent nearly 10 years
making records together. We achieved 10 top forty hits in the UK and a
number one album in the British album charts. We toured with Van Halen, Guns
N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Bryan Adams, ZZ Top to name a few and worked
with some of the biggest names in the business at the time. That was then.
Now I am in my late thirties and fronting my own band. The music on this
site is a small selection of my work, but I feel it represents what I am as
an artist and where I am in my head. When I was a kid at school, I
gravitated towards rock n' roll and wrote songs from an early age, always
wanting to perform, and front a band. I won't pretend I was 'dragged up' and
that is what gave me the drive to create. No, my Dad was a teacher and my
Mum a house wife. I came from a small town on the east coast of England and
was heavily influenced by the fact that my parents were first generation
teenagers, kids of the 60's. My Dad played me Queen, The Who, Bread, and ELO
and introduced me to a wealth of music that slowly found its way in to my
consciousness. The one thing my parents did was encourage me, and I think
that belief is what got me through. To me the attraction was the energy and
it appealed to me on every level.
I eventually formed my first band when I was 12 and spent the next 6 years
in and out of one band or another searching for the right thing. I
eventually met the guys that were in the Angels at Sixth Form College in my
home town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire in the UK. As explained above the,
chemistry must have been right as we were a big success in the UK and got a
good name for ourselves around the globe also, becoming a chart band in
Japan, Germany and Portugal as well as touring extensively all over the
world.
The Band split over ten years ago now and since then I have made records and
toured periodically in-between raising a family, working in the film
industry and keeping my head above water.
I have returned to the scene quite recently with a fresh desire to get back
out there and create new music. I work with an amazing group of guys who I
feel complete me as a musician and they are more than my band, they are my
brothers and co creators. I could not do this without them. Roger Davis My
bass player has been with me for over 10 years now and Matt E my drummer
nearly as long. I have worked with a succession of guitar players, but have
recently begun working with Dean Howard who has also been a close friend of
mine for many years. Dean brings his own pedigree to this thing having
played and composed with T'Pau in the late 8o's and more recently with Ian
Gillan.
The trouble with being an artist is that it controls you and not the other
way round and so I really have no choice, I love music and what it does to
us. I feel blessed to be able to create it in the first place let alone have
people turn up to the shows and buy my music. I don't take anything for
granted but I know this is what I am, for good or bad. I live in Yorkshire
still and have no desire to leave, but every desire to play the globe again.
I am currently writing music for new releases and have an amazing team
around me to help make the journey easier. Bottom line is this: if you like
Rock and Roll driven by passion and energy, songs about life and loss, then
perhaps I will appeal. I sincerely hope so.
Kind regards
Toby Jepson.
Scarborough, N.Yorkshire. December 2006
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