The Dodo Fightback personnel

Eifion

Eifion Rees takes music, like his fear of spiders, very seriously. What happens when the two come together? No one knows. No one wants to, least of all him. His fear of sharks is almost as powerful a driving force in his life. His greatest concern is that science will one day achieve its stated aim and create the great white tarantula – and that it will be better than him on the bass.

Cree

In the guitar business for a long time – too long if you believe his grandchildren – Christopher Smith is the midwife of the band: he always delivers. His technical skill is matched only by his mastery of the Excel spreadsheet. He is wanted in three countries for his killer harmonies. And GBH.

Jamie

Following a botched job experience, James Lister Clark spent his formative years in a Young Offenders Institute. A decade later, he emerged from his North London cell: older, wiser, harder, faster, more proficient on the tuba, marginally less so on the drums. He was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar long before the Human League made it fashionable.

Pete

The Dodo Fightback coalesced into its current form in April 2007 with the arrival on the scene of Pete Jacobs. Guitar hanging from the saddle, he rode into town on the back of a funny-looking horse with unresolved issues and a limp, raised on three-parts oats, two-parts maize and a nosebag full of Sonic Youth.