A Band

The A Band
The A Band at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2009. Back row: Pete Herring, Karl Waugh, Stewart Greenwood. Middle:Stewart Keith, Seth Cooke, Gardyloo SPeW. Front: Andrew Fletcher, Greta Pistaceci.
Background information
Origin	Nottingham, England
Genres	Free improvisation
Years active	1990–1999; 2007–present
Members	Regular members: Stream Angel Stuart Arnot Stanley Bad Martin Bizarro Andie Brown Seth Cooke Gaving Christy Andrea Fletcher Andrew Fletcher Megan Fletcher-Cutts Pete Herring Stewart Keith Simon Morris Simon Murphy Richard Thomas Chloe Wallace Karl Waugh Gardyloo SPeW Calum F Kerr Jonas Golland Dolly Dollycore Emu Extraordinare Tim Drage "Bonkers" Kev Nickells Max Leonard Hitchings David Shewry Andrew Locke Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly Carlos Ferrao Lara Pearl Lydia Morgan Dan Spicer (in denial) Dunrobin Dobbin Matthew Lee Knowles Zali Krishna Megan Alodon Phillip Raymond Goodman Tim Flitcroft Charlie Wheatley James Wise Tina Hibbins Lisa McKendric James shearman
Past members	Andy Anderson, John Aziz, Tim Barker, Neil Campbell, Michael Canning, Gavin Christy, Sophie Cooper, Jean-Emmanuel Dubois, Vince Earimal, Sticky Foster, Ginge Attridge, Stewart Greenwood, Dave Higginson, John Hedley, Mick Horton, Billy MacLennan Irvine, Joincey, Julie Kjær, David Large, Dr Neil Lent (a/k/a Lenty), Niggle, Verity Spott, Rafe Ozimek, Neal Pates, Greta Pistaceci, Jim Plaistow, Barry Rothery, Sarah Attridge, Matt Scott, Isabel Scum-Plotter, Geoffrey Sick, Phil Todd, Richard Thomas, Dave Walters, Simon Wickham-Smith, Michael Gillham, Mike Vest, Murray Ward, Andrew Williams, Richard Youngs

The A Band are a British musical collective formed in Nottingham in the late 1980s. In 2005, The Wire compared the band's importance to that of AMM and SME, and noted their lack of musical training.^[1]

The line-up of the group has never been fixed. New members are always invited to join the band.