Billy Nomates was formed by Tristan Lambeth 15 years ago.
They went through a variety of names,including
Mohican Wu Wu,The E Numbers and The Handbags.
Billy play a variety of music from old traditional rock songs
through punk to modern day.
Whilst writing their own material they take time to ensure that the songs they cover lose
none of the vitality of the originals. With various personnel changes during the years, the long time line up was Tristan
on vocals and rhythm guitar, Lesley-Ann New on drums ,Darren Wingate on lead guitar, Steve Bradford on bass and Sarah Cooper
on keyboards and backing vocals.
This changed when Steve left to join local blues based band "Alive on Arrival"
and Darren and Sarah left to spend more time with their families. Nigel Godden, who also played with Horsham based band Kodie,
joined on bass and Bob Farrell who played in various European bands, joined on lead guitar.
November 2000 saw Lesley Ann leave and be replaced by Carl Brooker who gave the band a much heavier sound.
After a slight lull the band resurfaced in 2002 with Darren back on lead guitar,John Hiles from Alive on Arrival on drums,and
Alan Wise from various Guildford based bands such as The Revivals, and The Flying Tigers on bass.In August 2004 The band flew
to Boston in the U.S.to undertake a ten day American tour.
In September 2009 the band, in their current line
up,did their 300th gig together.
Bob and Tristan continue to write songs together.
2009 has seen Billy do more weddings and parties than before,whilst still managing to capture the essence of being a pub
rock band whenever possible.
Credits
"Billy Nomates",a
song written by Tristan,featured in the Kenneth Branagh film "Theory of Flight".
"Mystics",
a film set in Ireland is another film to feature some of Tristan's songs, it was released in the Spring of 2003, and included
"Billy Nomates" and another song called "Dallas"written about an American girlfriend,which was co-produced
by Nomates's ex-guitarist Bob Farrell.
A song,"Sold As Seen" featured in the Linda
La Plante detective series "The Commander".
The TV series,"William and Mary",
with Martin Clunes,was another TV play which featured some of Tristan's music, this time a song called "Green Side
Up"again produced with Bob.
A recent film, aired again on September 20th 2005 ,
called " Floating " again featuring Green Side Up,to see credits follow the link below:
