Hailing from Exeter, Reading and Stockholm, the band claim to create a sound that they call ‘odd pop’, a sound combining a number of musical genres. The band members cite their influences as The Cure, Jeff Buckley, The Flaming Lips and XTC.

Encouraged by their chemistry teacher, Alfonso and Irwin spent some time in the United States in an attempt to broaden their horizons. The pair won themselves a football scholarship at the University of Indianapolis despite a reputed claim to be 'allergic to running'.

Having gathered enough material to compile an album, Alfonso and Irwin returned to London where they met Martin Skarendahl, a Swedish ex-fireman who was then working as a recording studio engineer.

The trio signed to RCA and have recorded an album together (working title 'Trick To Life', provisional release date 10th September[2]), and have recently performed on the BBC Radio 2 Music Club. 

GRACE

Grace was formed from a partial merger of two bands. In 1999, while a first-year music student at Clare College, Cambridge, Sam Swallow collaborated with friends to produce a seven-song album, released privately as The Moon EP (after the album's title song, The Matthew Moon Song, dedicated to a certain Matthew Moon). Following the popularity of this album, Swallow consolidated a four-piece band called Weedmeter, whose musical style was an eclectic and adventurous mix of rock, funk and other highly individual elements. Weedmeter released a single called Ben in March 2001, which is preserved online despite the fact that Weedmeter is now defunct. The album's cover picture (by Timothy Moore) reveals that the eponymous Ben, subject of the title song (a mock-epic), is Ben Lumsden, who was a contemporary of the Weedmeter members at Clare College and a close friend. Lumsden was the partner of JP Jones in a farcical acoustic duo called Front Man, a name which was soon abandoned in favour of Morocco. Weedmeter and Morocco regularly appeared together, often in the fabled "Cellars" at Clare College, Cambridge, a venue that had nurtured the career of - among many others - Pete Atkin. Morocco subsequently expanded to include electric guitarist Tony Paul, and both groups experimented with guest musicians, most commonly violinist Tam Healey, violist Chris Brown, and timpanist Attah Ocholi. In 2001 Swallow and Lumsden independently moved to Shepherd's Bush, where they both secured positions as Anglican church organists, despite a lack of formal training. Swallow joined Morocco, and Weedmeter was disbanded. Morocco went electric, acquired a drummer and replaced its second guitarist Paul with Patrick Murdoch, also of Big Linda, and changed its name to Grace. After further personnel shifts (Murdoch was replaced by Hayto) it is now established as a mainstream rock band with a saccharine tooth.

Grace's début single, Stand Still, was released on 6th November 2006 on the Angel/EMI label. The song has been pre-released in a YouTube video posted on the band's MySpace page, along with a preview of the lyrics of three more songs, which, according to that website, will appear with it on a forthcoming album, Detours, due for release in 2007 on Gracious Records (an imprint of Angel/EMI).