Dale Taylor - guitars and vocals
Dale often wandered around as a child listening to his mum's Delicate Sound Of Thunder, The Wall and Division Bell CDs. He received his first guitar when he was ten and, while he was initially self-taught, we should probably be grateful that someone then forced him to undergo numerous years of guitar lessons.
Throughout his teenage years, he was obsessed with playing and singing, gigging in several groups until he left school to pursue his dream. He has always been most heavily influenced by David Gilmour and Pink Floyd and, despite his mum's obvious leanings toward the later Pink Floyd albums, he found himself captivated with Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Meddle.
Now an experienced frontman, Dale brings a huge experience of touring and performing to The Floyd Effect, but still finds time for other projects. He has released two albums as Woodley Taylor - a studio debut and a 'Live In The Studio' album - and is planning to write and release a third in the near future.
Meanwhile, he says that, "I have waited years for an opening in a Pink Floyd show. It has always been my dream to play and sing their timeless works on this scale, and I couldn't ask for a better group of musicians than The Floyd Effect to make it come true".
John Lovegrove - guitars and vocals
A talented player and singer, John started playing guitar at the tender age of eight, and in addition to Pink Floyd claims that he also counts Genesis and George Formby among his influences. This suggests that, whenever staring out upon six saintly shrouded men, he at least has the luxury of doing so through clean windows.
Not one to be serious for more than a split second, when asked about his decision to join The Floyd Effect he says, "Unlike most bands who only offer digestives, TFE offer chocolate hobnobs at auditions. It’s a small point, but tells you a lot about their approach to music and the care that they take to make sure that everything is right. I was really delighted to join the band."
John has toured as a lighting and sound engineer with artists including David Bowie, Janet Jackson and Bryan Adams.
Gordon Reid - keyboards
Having started piano lessons at the tender age of four, Gordon's bought his first electronic keyboards during the early days of progressive rock, so it's no surprise that he spent much of the 1970s trying to play ELP, Genesis and Pink Floyd tracks on cheap monosynths, electric pianos, organs and string synths. Then he went to university, spent his grant on more keyboards and started a band. Mirage was a real throwback to the heyday of prog, and in the 1980s metamorphosed into the aptly (indeed, too aptly) named Deja-Vu.
Today, having worked in the audio industry for more years than he cares to admit, his diverse activities have included writing theme music for BBC Radio, composing a (very minor) award-winning documentary soundtrack, restoring audio material for several record labels, contributing to the legendary Mellotron album, and working with Keith Emerson and his band in the UK and the USA. He has created factory sounds for a number of synthesiser manufacturers (most recently for Moog Music), has written synthesiser manuals, and also wrote the series of technical articles (Synth Secrets) that comprise the course text on synthesis at establishments such as USC (the University of Southern California) and others in the UK and the USA.
In 2007, he met Kerry and joined the band that would then become The Floyd Effect. So here he is, playing Pink Floyd again, just as he did in the early 1970s. The difference is, he's now doing it with other people, and they know how to do it properly. It took him 40 years, but he got there in the end.
Garry Tyrrell - bass
Garry started by playing the violin and, after a left turn into the woodwind section of the local county youth orchestra, he discovered the Rolling Stones. Leaping around his bedroom with a six-string guitar one evening, he was discovered by his parents, who decided it was high time that he "learned to play the ***** thing". His classical studies were duly consigned to the back burner and, with just a few chords under his belt, he was asked to stand in on bass in the school band. He had found his true home.
His professional break came with the reggae band, Steppin’ Out and, with the subsequent record deal, years of recording and touring ensued. Apparently, there was a lot of fun, a lot of travelling, and very little money but, during this time, he worked with artists and bands such as The Pointer Sisters, Dr. Feelgood, The Mighty Diamonds, Desmond Dekker, and Paul Young. Nonetheless, his classical roots (which had led to a 1st class honours degree in music) still came in handy from time to time.
More recently, Garry has been involved with projects such as the development and production of a Cole Porter Jazz Revue, a number of pit sessions, playing the bass with a Europe-based Abba tribute show, and most recently taking on the schizophrenic role of performing on bass for The Floyd Effect, where he claims to be 50% Waters and 50% Pratt, although the rest of the band suggest other proportions.
Kerry Howes - drums
The drums and percussion are the engine room of any band; the foundations upon which everything else is built. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the music of Pink Floyd, and a genuine tribute to Pink Floyd requires a drummer who can adapt to a wide range of styles covering more than three decades over the course of a three-hour set.
Kerry started his musical career playing with a Motown band and various function bands. A bass player and talented vocalist as well as a drummer, he was initially influenced heavily by David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, and 1980s American rock bands such as Journey. He discovered Pink Floyd quite late - around 1994, when their double-CD live album 'Pulse' first appeared - and was immediately hooked. He started playing Pink Floyd’s music and was soon involved in several tribute projects.
“Like a lot of drummers, John Bonham is my musical hero”, he says, “but I never tire of listening to Pink Floyd, and the love of playing their music will never go away. I’ve been doing it since 1997, and I still haven’t mastered it to the standards that I set myself. Will I? Probably not, but I’m still going to try!”
Tiffany Lovegrove - vocals
Having started singing in clubs across the UK at the age of eight, Tiffany joined the National Youth Music Theatre as a teenager and performed in major shows such as The Ragged Child, The Threepenny Opera and Bodyworks, treading the boards on Broadway as well as in the UK at the Royal Albert Hall, numerous West End theatres and the Edinburgh Festival. At the age of 20 she headed to France to study singing at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, where she helped to support herself by singing in an English pub! Deciding to move into rock and blues, she then formed a band and travelled around the South of France before returning home to Cambridge to join up with local musicians with whom she sang everything from blues and jazz, to disco, Motown and soul music.
It wasn't long before she was spotted by renowned London producer, Replay Heaven, and became a session artist singing on works by Ezio, Estelle, Chicane feat. Tom Jones, Uniting Nations, Kraak and Smaak, Medcab, Cabin Crew and Cassius. Following this, she toured globally with The Young Punx, performing to crowds of more than 12,000 fans in Japan, America, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. She has since performed at the Glastonbury Festival and even in Trafalgar Square.
Tiffany joined The Floyd Effect in 2011 and says, "I’ve loved Pink Floyd's music since I was very young, but I never thought that I would have the chance to perform it as we’re now doing. It’s not just the wonderful music - like all singers, I relish the challenge of performing The Great Gig In The Sky - but the effort the band makes to recreate the complete Pink Floyd experience, including the dual projections, light show, and lasers. Headlining festivals and performing the whole of Dark Side Of The Moon in front of thousands of people is a rare privilege for all of us".