During a history lesson a couple of years ago, moonshine was mentioned. The 'i' was later replaced with a 'Y'

RockCafe 2000 in Stourbridge. Special Moment? Black Country Battle of the Bands Final at the town hall

Yes

It all began in the summer of 2003, when Harvey and Stu started to play guitar together in Harvey’s bedroom, strumming out simple 3 chord songs from an old book they had lying around. This continued for a short while until they decided it would be worth taking it a step further and pull together a band. Band members came and went and nothing seemed to stay the same from week to week.

Then at the beginning of 2004, they heard that school friend Sam Farmer, was getting a drum kit, and they quickly pounced on the opportunity, to which Sam happily obliged. Harvey moved to bass and the setup remained for about a year, before they recruited long time friend Chris Machin on vocals.

However, after about a year of work the line up didn’t work out and Machin and MoonshYne went their separate ways After struggling for a while, it was decided that Harvey and Stu should share vocals and that a keys player was needed. It took four months to find one, but when Luke Dalton was recommended by another band at a charity gig, the final line up was complete. After 3 and a half years the line up was complete.

The Beatles,
The Who,
T.Rex,
David Bowie,
Marc Bolan,
Rick Wakeman,
Yes,
Emerson, Lake and Palmer,
ELO,
Queen,
ABBA,
John Denver,
Danny Elfman,
The Police,
Led Zeppelin,
John Blackwell,
Miles Davis