G2 are, Collectively...
Chris Cawte - Guitars, Vocals
Chris has (like all of us) has played in many bands. Most notably, he and Jeff Walker were with the Gutter Brothers, a band that busked and played hundreds of gigs around the world. Their version of "Summer in the City" featured in the "Only Fools and Horses - Miami Christmas Special" and they were the first live band on MTV Europe. Chris composes full and incidental music for Advertising, TV Themes and Film Scores. As if one tribute isn't enough he also performs in the excellent Letz Zep, highly recommended if you are feeling Led Zeppelin deficient! Chris is the calming influence in the team, but sometimes we are not sure if he hasn't just fallen asleep!
Colin Davies - Manager
Colin is the newest member of G2 and a very welcome addition! G2 had been struggling for years without a manager when Colin responded to our cries for help! When he isn't completely overrun with the demands of the G2 machine Colin runs a very successful coaching, training and consultancy business that specialises in mentoring... leadership, management, sales, confidence, communication and presentation skills to businesses and individuals, so they can achieve their full potential ...just what G2 needed! If you are interested you can visit Colin's Successzone web site here for more information. Colin is a huge Chelsea fan and insists that John Terry is a very, very good footballer.
Dave Austin - Presentation, Atmospherics, Lighting
Dave was introduced to the band by yet another Dave (Dave Grove, whose details are just below but never underneath). As a former BBC sound engineer Dave brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the team. The early lighting for the project was never adequate enough to evoke the memories of forty-eight aircraft landing lights burning through a wall of silver smoke! Dave's impetuous folly was to go out and buy a major lighting rig & stage effects system. Any who have seen us live can testify to that! Couple this with his sense and understanding for the music and you truly get a Genesis lit experience. He is the mood maker of the team, always upbeat but objective, enthused but realistic.
Dave Grove - Visuals, Shade, Lighting
Dave Grove first introduced Dave Austin to G2 at the Amersham Arms in New Cross in October 2000. So much has happened since then. Clearly life long friends, the "Two Dave's" or "Double D's", as we call them work together on delivering a critically important element of the G2 show. Dave actually attended the Seconds Out concerts as a photographer and he brings that professional strength and quality to the lighting desk, thus creating beautiful images which complement the subtlety and excitement of the music to perfection. Dave is the emotionalist in the team, caring and sensitive, he makes us realise the value of what we are doing in keeping Genesis from terminal Revelation.
Dave Wilk - Bass, Guitar, Pedals, Vocals
Dave is the great under achiever (well he likes to project himself as a victim even though he knows its not true #:o) He has had many opportunities to be successful in music and played & performed with various bands & musicians, but chose to work with computers instead! So... "it paid the mortgage off early but it ain't Rock'n'Roll" - but then again, it paid the mortgage. He is the hot headed, hot tempered, hot under the collar element in the team - pretty hot if you need somewhere to fry an egg! He barks louder than he bites and tends to drive the team, (or tries) by growling from the back.
Jeff Walker - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Jeff has performed live at Midem, The Brit Awards and several times on Top of the Pops for name artistes. He linked up with Chris for the first time in 1987. Chris's analysis of Jeff speaks volumes, "When I first met him he had acquired his grandad's banana-yellow Hillman Hunter. In the Gutter Brothers, he played a hilarious assortment of soda siphons, Chinese dinner gongs, llamas toenails and broken bits of metal, whilst balancing on one leg and singing backing vocals - backwards. A truly talented man, he hears in colour, sleeps one inch off the mattress and can hit all the drums in front of him whilst barely moving a muscle. Just don't ask him what day it is." Jeff is the qualifier and controller of tolerance in the team, he maintains the status quo and we don't want any Quo gags!
Paolo Picone - Sound, Dynamics, Recording
Paolo can be described as the longest running member of G2 having originally formed its early birth in Kudos. An accomplished musician, sound engineer and producer he is also a founder member of About Eight, an unsigned band from East London who write, perform and produce their own songs in their own definitive style. Thankfully Paolo continues to bring his skills to the project when he can. He is the original master of the G2 live sound, the clear headed pragmatist in the team. If you need a reality check coupled with a positive direction he has the book.
Piers de Lavison - Keyboards
Piers first ran into Kudos (before it mutated into G2) at the New Cross Inn, some time in late 1998, blissfully unaware that he would start playing in another homage to Genesis within a matter of weeks. Prior to that he'd been doing an odd selection of sessions and playing Jazz in a Yugoslavian Goth Metal band (yes, honestly!). It wasn't long before countless sleepless nights spent watching old footage of Tony Banks led to probably the most authentic combination of head nodding and scowling the live music circuit has ever experienced! After initial concerns about what he was letting himself in for by embracing another Genesis project, he was soon after heard to say "That Dave Wilk, he's just a teddy bear really". [DW: I have other names, but this is a family web site.] Piers is the analyst of everything, he puts sugar on his breakfast cereal one granule at a time.
Terry Day - Lead Vocals, Percussion
Terry came to G2 by chance and a very fortunate chance for G2. His friend saw the G2 advertisement for a singer and phoned up for him. We pull his leg about this occasionally, but not too much as he used to be a pretty handy boxer. Anyhow he still has a good pedigree, (he was a boxer remember, woof-woof). He is a vocalist of note and that helps when you are a singer 'cause singing flat isn't a good alternative! Terry describes himself as a bit of a journeyman, having played as many as five hundred performances. He has even performed in Wandsworth Prison, we all went very quiet when he told us that! He is the contemplative influence in the team, a sound head on sound shoulders and worth sounding out to.
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