User:AlisterMalcolm/sandbox

SleepMud were a psychedelic and doom metal band from the small town of Bideford in North Devon, England. They had 4 active members throughout their lifespan, Crosby Dunkley: lead singer and guitarist, Dan Powe: drummer, Louis Woodward: guitarist and Alister Malcolm: bassist and backing vocalist.

The band formed in the middle of September 2015, derived from Radioactive Boyscout and The 6th Degree (formally known as Backwash). Radioactive Boyscout was a two member band featuring Dan Powe and Crosby Dunkley, playing live they used two guitars with no vocals and performed covers, they also recorded a YouTube album of their own tracks alongside studying music technology. The tracks on this album were a very experimental time for the two musicians and including a whole range of instruments. The 6th Degree was a 4 piece band consisting of Alister on bass and lead vocals, Louis on lead guitar, Ollie Chavasse on drums and Sophie Littlejohns as vocalist and rhythm guitar, they played a range of covers and also wrote their own, occasionally live Alister and Ollie would swap positions and play each others instruments.

The first time the four musicians were seen playing together was at a College concert, Alister and Louis had made an arrangement of the cover Feeling Good by Muse, with Louis on piano and Alister on vocals, getting together briefly after college they played alongside Dan (on drums) and Crosby (on bass) and felt the song flowed far better with a full band set up. Crosby (on guitar and vocals) and Dan (on drums) also had an arrangement of the song Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac that Alister (on bass) and Louis (on guitar) played on too. This was the start of playing together for the four piece and was a last minute change before the concert, causing quite the upset as programmes has already been printed and arrangements made. Then after they met up after college at Dan's grandparents house in Westward Ho! where he kept his drum kit. In the small confined space of a spare bedroom, they then wrote their songs then after.

Before Alister and Louis, Crosby and Dan wrote the song "", which was then shown to Alister and Louis at a band practice session, who both agreed it was a brilliant start and quickly created their own parts, playing together the band found that naturally they would change and develop the original parts to be far more interesting. At the beginning of their time practising together they played through their amplifier's line outs into a panned headphone feed with so they could hear the vocals and everything balanced.