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Steve Young born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent on 11th November 1964. Steve started playing piano aged 5 and learnt classical piano until the age of 14. During his time at Mayfield College in Sussex through the late 1970's he also learnt the Bass Guitar and Drums. During the late 1970's was involved in several local punk bands in Tunbridge Wells, and actually auditioned for Bass Player with the Anti Nowhere League. Then in 1979 to1980 he formed a band Compacta Italic playing keyboards and drums which featured Gary Sanctuary ( of Aztec Camera ) Farrah Bryon and Mark Edwards ( film actor and Director ) who played for about 2 years becoming runners up in a battle of the bands in Dulwich in London. After moving to Eastbourne in Sussex during the late 1980s Steve joined a local band Lost Without Trace, playing keyboards and performing original material in and around Sussex with Andy Taylor , Dave Maynard and Dean West. Following the break up of the band Steve formed the infamous psychedelic rock band " More Mushrooms Vicar ? " with rock and blues guitarist John Kitcher from Haisham East Sussex,writing all original material. The band consisted of Duncan Pope ( vocals, saxophone and harmonica ) John Kitcher ( guitars / vocals ), Sacha Holloway ( now of Sunfish ) ( guitar) Rodney Brown ( bass guitar ) Steve Young ( keyboards and programming ) The late Paul Ray ( drums ). The Mushrooms had several other musicians come and go throughout their time. The band were a huge success in Sussex and were voted Radio 1s number 1 unsigned band of the year around 1993. Following a good run of success Steve left the band and took up with Sacha Holloway to move to Devon and start writing new material. It was then in 2003 that they met Jon Kerry and became keyboardist and guitarist for the live Psychedelic Trance act Sunfish.