Lime Shark, are a five piece guitar driven rock band based in Lincolnshire and consist of founder member Tony Bodimead on vocals and guitar, Paul ‘Wizbat’ Watson on Bass and vocals, Tim Myers on rhythm guitar, Matt Cope on drums and Martin Howells on keyboards.
They play an interesting mixture of original rock using guitars with samples and keyboards triggered with bass pedals and sequencers, and are reminiscent of bands such as Rush, Muse, Audioslave and Pink Floyd.
The band has been gigging around the UK for five years and is steadily building a fan base.
Aside from that and through the powers of the World Wide Web they are also establishing fans in Brazil, Germany, Austria, Belgium and the USA, where their music and videos are creating a lot of interestThey also have a fan base in Italy and Australia.
The history of the band goes back about six years when Tony moved from London to Lincolnshire and met up with Nick Moon and the pair began writing songs together. As the band started to develop their own sound there were various line-up changes, especially in the drummer department, and with recent addition of Matt Cope, the band are continuing to gather momentum and this line-up is now making waves on the gig circuit.
Tony Bodimead: Original member and founder of Lime Shark he has had vast experience from an early age, touring and playing in prog/rock to commercial pop acts in the UK and around Europe. He has also been signed to major labels where he gained recording and touring experience opening as support to bands like Heart, Vow Wow, Iron Maiden, Wishbone Ash, Brian May, Hawkwind, The Edgar Broughton Band, Ruby Turner, Iggy Pop, Hanoi Rocks, The Blow Monkeys, Randy California, Slade, Classix Nouveaux, Robin Hitchcock and Steeleye Span. He is the main singer/songwriter for the band and shows a strong creative and emotional side that comes through in his lyrics. Tony spends much of his time in his home studio where the bands demos are made.
Paul Watson: Has been playing since his early teens and has had experience in touring with several bands and has worked as a sound engineer and guitar tech to members of Motorhead and Big Audio Dynamite.
Paul has an extensive range of basses, including four, five, six and seven string instruments plus two identical looking hand crafted six string basses which resemble the famous Rickenbacker RM1999 belonging to Chris Squire! His style emulates this brilliant bassist of Yes who was one of his earliest influences along with Geddy Lee and John Entwhistle.
Tony's musical tastes are varied and include King Crimson, Rush, Placebo, Muse, Nirvana, Genesis, Yes, Saga, Neil Young, The Blue Nile and John Martin.
Tony's influences are Jeff Beck, Alex Lifeson, Dave Gilmour, John Barry, Brian May, Adrian Belew and Jimi Hendrix to name but a few!
Paul's musical taste consists of Progressive Rock bands Yes, Rush, Genesis through to Asia, Muse, Porcupine Tree and the Foo Fighters.
