John Milne - Bands

Big Vern 'n' The Shootahs
		Big Vern 'n' The Shootahs are a nine piece soul/funk band who are known as one of the finest live bands in Scotland. Visit the myspace site... and the Big Vern home site by clicking on the logo on the left.
Twist To Open
Twist to Open are a Glasgow based band fronted by Nicola and Nkuli. A prototype Flash Gallery is available here.
	Nkuli Zikalala - vocals Nicola Lyon - vocals John Milne - Guitars, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Trombone & Trumpet Ian Matheson - Keyboards, Twelve String Guitar, Assorted Bangy, Shaky Things Alistair McDonald/Colin McGibbon - Drums
Twisted	The clip of Twisted comes from the Twist To Open debut recording. Twisted has been featured on a number of local and national radio stations. Look out for the imminent completion of "Miss America ".


The Groove Brothers
		The Groove Brothers specialise in absailing events and Cheese festivals and appear here minus Dr Substance, a teacher by day and a practitioner of groove on the keyboards by night. Although the CD recording features his last performance with the Groove Brothers, his talent is immortalised in the title : "Dr Substance Gets His Jotters".
Click above and enjoy Heavy Groove, inspired by carrying large amounts of classic James Brown and Jimi Hendrix vinyl between flats.

Lewana
Lewana are a brazilian percussion group which I joined just over a year ago after recording their CD at Odd Shoe. They manage to overlay an incredible variety of rhythms and texture between the three percussionists (using all available limbs on some amazing instruments) on traditional and experimental patterns. They have played on The Jools Holland show and have recorded and performed with the Pet Shop Boys. I mostly play bass, and as far as percussion goes, have only been permitted to play the Sordu part ("hit the big drum not very often")