The Band
Emma Gale - Vocals
Emma Gale has been singing since she can remember. She began her singing career as a backing singer/lead vocals in Cover me Bad based in Cambridge and they played all over the Home Counties and London. Notable gigs included support for Katrina and the Waves, Wilco Johnson and Chaz and Dave. Emma moved to Weymouth in 2001 where she set up the Vending Machine Repairmen and they had a 10 year long run. When Emma met Pete and they began Galeforce 2, the duo they were asked to perform their original material at the Weymouth and Portland Opening Ceremony for the Summer Olympics in 2012. Galeforce 2 also play regularly at Hugh Fernley Whittingstall's River Cottage and have regular bookings for Xmas at Roots in Egypt. Emma is currently studying a masters in songwriting at Bath Spa University and is due to complete this in September 2015.
Peter Kirkbride - Guitar
Pete is a professional classical and contemporary guitarist based in Weymouth. Pete studied guitar with Graham Wade at the City of Leeds College of Music and went on to further his studies with John Mills at the Royal Welsh College of Music and drama. With over 30 years of experience, Pete is an accomplished classical guitarist and has performed many concerts as a soloist and as part of an ensemble. His styles range from classical to blues, pop and rock. Pete has been playing with Galeforce for 2 years now.
Ady Millward - Drums
Ady Millward is a fine drummer. Ady's primary role is as Ben Water's drummer and has toured all over the UK, Europe, United States and Middle East.
Remi - Bass
It was sunrise at the beginning of time that Remi hung some wires on a plank and started to twang. This continued for thousands of years through several ice ages, famines, floods and on through the dark ages. And then in the eighties, things started to get interesting.
In this decade, several deals and publishing scams came and went but more importantly, a huge range of styles were investigated including country, post-punk, jazz (and all expansions), rock, art-rock (one album), pop, new romantic, bhangra (one album), experimental ambient electronic and of course, a substantial amount of 'cabaret nausea' for financial reasons.
Remi's philosophy is 'Live young, die fast'. The plank is now made of carbon-fibre and has five wires.
His favourite colour is orange and he doesn't live in Kent.
Remi has also recently returned to the band after having a stint with various local bands. Remi always comes back!