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Mimesis
Mimesis is a newly formed Alternative Rock Band from a small sea-side town called Weston-Super-Mare. The group consisted originally Of:Lead Vocalist, Guitarist and Keyboard player, Luke Griffiths. Bassist and Back up Vocalist Jake Sampson. and Drums/Precussion (Formally) Joshua Simmonds,(Currently) Matthew Crocker.

Influences
Mimesis were inspired manly by Muse and have assumed many of their technuiqes. However in a local press interview Jake mentioned many more influential bands including: Radiohead Queen The Beatles The White stripes David Bowie

Early Days
Luke, Jake and Josh met in 2004 at Secondary school; Priory Community School The Band Originated in mid 2009 as a "Joke" and wasn't a serious group -until- The group we're told of their potential; this forced the group into a frenzy of practice and began writing songs. The First Song was written by Bassist and back up vocalist; Jake Sampson. The two driving forces in the band is Luke's use of Musical Knowledge and sheer musical Talent, and Jake's Use of Severe and deep effected bass riffs which carry their songs forward while the drummer and guitarist are then able to "float" over the riff. With these methods combined, the group are able to play unique musical sounds. The band were originally called "M.A.B (Muse appreciation band)" and intended to be a cover band, but when they began to grow they realised that they could go their own route.

Luke Griffiths
Luke Griffiths was -from a young age- encoraged into music, as a child luke learnt and played the piano and keyboard. It is speaculated that his infuence for then learning guitar was his father Mark Giffiths who played guitar. With these skills Luke was able to then write and improvise his own methods and musical structure. Luke's knowledge of music allows him to create and recreate His own musical style.

The guitars that Luke uses are simple and easy to work with e.g.the Encore P29B-MO2. Luke uses minimal effect pedals as he is said to preffere cleaner and higher tone sounds. an example of some of the effects luke uses Berhinger WAH Pedal and Standard Overdrive.

Instruments
Luke plays a wide range of instruments Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar Bass Guitar Drums Keyboard Piano Organ

Jake Sampson
Jake Sampson was raised with a background of Grunge and Punk Rock music; such as Nirvana and Radiohead which heavily influenced both his taste and style of playing. Jake's Father played 12 string guitar which eased him into music further. It wasnt until Jake was 11 years old until he purchased and starting learning bass guitar, it is unknown why Jake Chose Bass guitar. As soon as he began to play Bass guitar he realised the potential of the "Bass" in a song, and began to pick the bass riffs out of songs and then analyse them. When Jake was 14 Years old he was introduced to the Alternative rock band Muse this was the pinnical moment, where Jake realised the effect created from Bass Effects. Jake Began researching Chris Wolstenholme (The Muse Bassist). This was how he discovered Effect Pedals, Jake looked up to Chris Wolstenholme for everthing from, effect pedals to his style of play. Jake has strongly remarked that Chris Wolstenholme Was he soul infulence to his playing. Jake uses many Bass guitars They list as follows: Crafter 34" Bass Guitar, Harley Benton Acoustic bass guitar and the Yamaha RBX374 Active Bass Guitar. The effect pedals that Jake uses are listed as follows: Berhinger UZ400 Ultra Fuzz and the Behringer BASS SYNTHESIZER BSY600.

Instruments
Here is the exstent of Jake's instruments

Acoustic guitar Electric guitar Bass Guitar Keyboard Drums

Jakes Theory Of Bass Effects
Jake follows somthing he likes to call "Jakes Bass Effect Theory". his theory is stated as follows "My theory of bass effects is; If i can create a tone or a sound on a Bass guitar that can 'Carry its own' weight in a song using effects and make it sound like a song on its own, then it allows the other band members to then layer their own riffs an drum fills on top off it. That's how i like to make music, and I try to keep to that theory as much as possible" An examaple of how Jake puts that theory into play is with he "Strong" deep and pentitrating Bass sounds which he uses to carry the song.

Joshua Simmonds
Joshua was born in The US in california, from a young age he was exsposed to all forms of media, from Video games to music and movies, this greatly inspired him to appreciate and understand how media tends to operate, Josh had previously never played any musical instrument. in a breif local press interview, the band stated that josh became the drummer out of necessity; "Me and Luke were just messing around on the bass and guitar, and we thought it was missing somthing, thats when we asked Josh to use the bongo's and tamberine to drum along to Smells like teen spirit, when he pulled it off, 1 our jaws dropped, 2 we new wew had a band" (Jake Sampson) Imediately after Luke decided to buy Josh a drum kit. In the space of a few months Josh was playing to an acceptable standard, how ever due to family decisions Josh was forced to move back to the US in late 2010, this left the band both saddend and without a drummer. it seemed as if Mimesis was not going to continue after all, until they found Mattew Crocker.

Instruments
Josh Focus's mostly on drums but does occasionally play Acoustic Guitar.