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Through many different line ups throughout the bands history, we come to (hopefully) the final incarnation. Formerly known as Lunar trans-action, I am spartacus are a four piece from Dorset UK. We are made up of Nick (guitars), Clive (bass and backing vocals), Jez (drums), and our newest addition Aaron (Vocals). We have recently released an E.P, "Every Superhero Needs a Trusty Sidekick", which was written, recorded, produced, performed, designed, pressed and marketed entirely by ourselves. It is on sale at certain independant record stores around the dorset area, including bournemouth, yeovil and salisbury. We're working on getting gigs in the local area, and beyond, so when we do, we'll let you all know, so that you can come and check us out.
Read further down for individual Bios.

AJ - Vocals

OK well as I'm writing this myself I'm not sure what to write. My first main intrest musically was Ska i.e. bands such as Less than Jake, and other bands that I started to hear such as Greenday (thanks to an American kid) and Lost Prophets. As I moved school I was intrested in music and due to a girlfriend, became determined to develop into music. So I started playing guitar on an old acoustic which I soon gave up as I naturally play leftie and couldnt get round to sorting it out.
A friend called Angus and I soon began to mess about with the idea of forming a band with Clive but it never took off.
I then sang for the ohh so legendary (in their minds anyway) Sense of 16. This didnt last long as my room mate soon took my place. Thanks Mike.
After this I was asked to sing a single gig with another band due to lack of a vocalist. This experiance is why I am where I am today due to the audience reaction to the music we were playing.
Finally seen as I had been hanging around with Clive and Jez via our Drama class who had been going through multiple vocalists as Lunar trans Action, and currently had Clive singing I ended up screaming as backing on the original recording of Born to lose though I'm sure it was never used in the final version. Then due to Clives inability to multi task I was asked to join the band as vocalist to which I obliged.
Thanks to all the people I mentioned for getting me where I am now.

Nirvana, Alexisonfire, Funeral for a friend, Fall out boy, Panic at the Disco, Kasabian, Senses fail, Taking Back Sunday, Rise against, Blood Brothers, MCR, Billy Talent, Brand new, Dallas Green, Test Icicles, Finch, Captain everything, Aiden, Lost Prophets, At the drive in, Arctic monkeys, YCNI:M, Head Automatica, Glassjaw, The dead 60's Foos, Story of the year, Coheed and Cambria, Muse, The mars volta, Less than Jake, Incubus, A.F.I, Sense of 16, Alkaline Trio, Madness, Bayside, Hawthorne heights, Steel Drum Corps, Angels and Airwaves, Dogs die in hot cars, Echo and the bunnymen, From first to last, Hell is for heroes, INME, Amen, Harry, Jimmy eat world, MC Lars,The wombles (a wombeling christmas) , Pezz, Placebo, This is menace, Rufio, Saves the day, The bronx, Killradio, The ordinary boys, The stranglers, Violent delight, more than athousand, Hiding with girls, the mascara story, Shadows or Glory.

Nick (Fradge) - Guitars/random noise samples!!!!

I was originaly born in yugaslavia, but moved to dorset when i was nine. unbelieviably as it may seem i was actualy born with my guitar in my hand. As i grew up it grew with me until i bought a new one. Its called luciel. Seriasly i started playing guitar when i was about 13 and was a huge chillis fan. After playing for a while with jez, clive joined then aaron came along, and here we are. At the ripe old age of sixty three and after severel sex changes i came to clayesmore school. I love original guitarists like hendrix, tom morrello and johnny greenwood.

Radiohead, chilli peppers, bloc party, the velvet underground, hendrix, nirvana, bright eyes, rage against the machine, death from above 1979, john Renbourn, Arctic monkeys, Herbie Hancock, dave navaro, Bert janche, Django Rhienhardt, polaris, Jack Johnson, Giant Drag, Be your own pet, The Mars Volta, The White Stripes, Wolfmother......

Clive - Bass + Vocals

I remember, when i was about 11 years old, sitting on a minubus, going to a school trip, and in the cassette player, was the Offspring album Americana. It was something i'd never heard before. Fast, energetic, and chaotic. Noise with a meaning. Thats where it all began.
Progressively i became more and more interested in music. I remember tagging along with the whole pop punk/nu metal scenes, and progressively finding better bands. I took up guitar when i was 13. Started playing my mum's old acoustic guitar, got some chord books, and decided to give it a go. I got an electric guitar, a shitty encore for my 14th birthday, which was probably the best present that i ever got.
Later that year, Jez and Nick were practicing, a two man band, playing chili peppers covers in the drum hut at school. They needed a bassist, i was desperate to play in a band (previous attempts at forming bands hadn't really worked). So i bought myself a bass, thinking it would be a hell of a lot easier than guitar (greatly mistaken) and its been that way ever since. I did have a brief stint at vocals when the band was still known as Lunar Trans-Action, and there are a couple of old recordings that exist with me at vocals.
I got a haircut.

Rage Against the Machine, Biffy Clyro, Refused, Rise Against, Panic! at the Disco, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Clash, The Jam, Nofx, Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold, Finch, System of a Down, the bronx, Queens of the Stone Age, Jimi Hendrix, Incubus, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Amen, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, A.F.I, Alkaline Trio, pezz, Bad Religion, Billy Talent, Black Sabbath, Blood Brothers, Girls aloud, Madness, Bullet For My Valentine, placebo, Radiohead, Death from above 1979, Descendants, Circle Jerks, Devo, Gang of Four, Head Automatica, Killradio, Misfits, Metallica, Mondo Generator, Muse, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Pixies, Queen Adreena, Rancid, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, X, Ray-Spex, Micheal Jackson (NOT A PEADO), The Bravery, The Coral, The Dead 60s, The Mars Volta, Thrice, Bob Dylan, Velvet Revolver, Yourcodenameis : Milo, [spunge], Farse, Reel big fish, whitmore, The Dead Kennedy's, audioslave, Test Icicles, Glassjaw, coheed and cambria, Dogs die in hot cars, echo and the bunnymen, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Public Enemy, Black flag, The Beatles, Aaron Copland, Camille Saint-Seans, Men women & children, Paramore, Taint, The Automatic, Antioch Arrow, Tom Waits, Head wound city

Hello, i am the talented drummer from I Am Spartacus. I've been playing drums for about 6 years. Me and Fradge were the founding memebers of I Am Spartacus, so you can thank us for our brilliant music, and mindblowingness.
I first decided to learn the drums when i was into LIMP BIZKIT!!!! yes, i was into limpbizkit, just cos of john otto is a kick ass drummer. But now i have moved on from that era, and am into other amazing bands.
YOU ARE A WHORE FROM WHORE ISLAND, AND A SMELLY PIRATE HOOKER. LOL.

Piczo