Paul Draper - Songwriter, Vocals & Guitar
Dominic Chad - Lead Guitar
Stove King - Bass
Andy Rathbone - Drums

History behind the band:

• The band were formed early 1995 as a five piece, they came from Chester, (about 15 miles South of Manchester). The original line up was Chad, Paul, Mark, Hib and Stove.
• Their 16-year-old samples fella, Mark, left the band following a paranoid fit on the eve of their Bratbus performance in January 1996. He failed to turn up for the gig and in the end couldn't take the hedonistic excess of his rock'n'roll lifestyle.
• Original drummer, Hib, quit the band after throwing a pineapple at Chad's head during the summer of 1996. It was the culmination of a lot of bitter disputes within the band and so he was kicked out and replaced by ex-Kinky Machiner Julian Fenton.
• Julian Fenton was replaced in October 1996 by drummer Andy Rathbone.

Facts about the band members:

• Chad and Paul live in Handbridge.
• When Chad came to Chester he found work at the Fat Cat Cafe on Watergate Street. He no longer works there (naturally!) but they still play Mansun in there.
• Dominic Chad went to Bangor University and came to live in Chester after leaving the course.

Facts about the music:

• Take It Easy Chicken - Released Sept 95 - Label Sci-Fi HiFi -(This was a label specially set up by the band themselves to put out their first two singles) - It was a limited edition release of 500 copies and the band's name was accidentally written as Manson instead of Mansun.
• Skin Up Pin Up - (B-side Flourella) - Released on Sci-Fi HiFi again, a run of about 6000 copies, I think. (November 1995)
• They did intend to release `She Makes My Nose Bleed' in Feb 96, but plans to do so were scrapped and it was replaced by `Egg Shaped Fred'
• The vinyls for One EP and Two EP have all the b-sides from the CD single on them.
• `She Makes My Nose Bleed',`Naked Twister' and `The Chad Who Loved Me' were all played on the BBC Radio 1 sessions, long before being released.
• 'The Chad Who Loved Me' was a pastiche on a bond theme.
• At 8am 17th April 1997 there were some antics concerning a Liverpool Street Station, a large number of businessman commuters, 25,000 pounds worth of fivers and a video camera.
  Out of the blue, an anonymous bloke came on to one of the platforms just as the commuters were getting of a train and threw 25,000 pounds at them. The resulting carnage (apparently including one old woman being virtually decked by a lunging stockbroker) as people desparately scrambled around after it was secretly filmed with the idea of using it as a promo for "Taxloss". Something to do with greed...
  
  Read an article about it from the Daily Telegraph.