User:Almthomson

Alistair Thomson
A music graduate born in Boston, England in 1971. His family moved to the Isle of Man when he was 3 and he grew up and was educated there. He went back over to England to study music at Huddersfield University (Polytechnic when he started) then got a place in Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London to do a year as a post graduate. He specialized in Violin/orchestral training here and spent the year also finishing his technique.

Whilst at school he met Arron Clague and together with Bobby Williams they formed 'Reel to Real' - an early incarnation of their synth-pop beginnings. Alistair moved school to study music with a new teacher which opened up some opportunities to play some small sets at school events. During this time they changed the bands name to 'Eight to Infinity' (8inf) and this name stuck. By 1988 they had produced their first album. The album was rough and ready being recorded on a cheap 4 track recorder.

Through the 1990s as PC technologies caught up and became cheap they developed their style and were able to produce more complete recordings. By 2006 they had been joined by Sophie Scott, a young singer and were ready to do their next album 'Aether'.

Alistair Continued to perform in London with Singer/songwriter Karimah Kelly in the K2 outfit until 2009. Alistair and Arron refined their music producton during the noughty's and then 8inf progressed to videos by the end of 2012. Christmas single in 2012 and then the more advanced Skyfalling in 2013 entertained many people. Following skyfalling, In December 2013 8inf released 'There's nothing very interesting to say about snow' using what they'd learning in the previous videos to create a more finished result. 16th Feb 2014 8inf released Blisszone V2 (following V1 11/02/2014 which needed some changes) - done with 'white screen' hence the bleedthrough effect on the video.