The History of FiD
Forever In December started when Martin started learning guitar in the summer of 2001 and after about a month thinking he was the tits wanted to start forming a band. The start was a slow one... possible the slowest in history... actually I'm doubting it. Anyway, Alec Crosby was the first to join him in this band on drums. The band was called 'Dumb Dillusions', a sad time for us all and we were looking to be another pop-punk band. Looking for a bassist they met Reuben who joined soon afterwards. Reuben was a bit up himself and soon appointed himself as the lead singer, recruiting two other guitarists Alex Macnair and some other dude we hadn't met. Reuben decided the band was going to play Radiohead songs and that we would be called 'Paranoid Android'. Martin and Crosby decided he nicest way to get rid of Reuben would be to tell him they were leaving the band rather than saying 'you're out!'. Anyway... where was I ...Oh yeah! Anyway, by this point the band had undergone two line-up changes and two names and still they hadn't gigged, in fact they hadn't even practiced! It soon became clear that Crosby was bullshitting when he said he could play the drums when it turned out he didn't and never had owned a drumkit. By this point Griff was starting to get into rock music and decided he was going to play bass much to the grief of Martin and Crosby. He started learning bass around the summer of 2002 and was now their bass player. Oliver Lambert ex-'C.H.R.I.S.' joined because the band vaguely knew him and he could play drums. At this point we were called 'Narcoleptic'.

The band was together now and Crosby was now on rythm guitar. We recruited Davros (drummer of 'Honest Johnny) for vocals but he never turned up to a practice. Then Griff found Deano, the Frank Sinatra of the punk world, (or maybe just the shit singer of the punk world?) on vocals. The first practice under our new name 'Centrefold' was humerous. Martin, Griff and Crosby running through practice amps, Lambert paying drums as hard and loud as usuall, and Deano singing through a Fisherprice Karaoke machine! We played our first gig as 'Centrefold' at Ranworth village hall with support from local ska band 'Emma's Dilema' (now split up). This gig was awful! No offence to Deano but he's the worst singer I've heard! The band then played a party, probably our best ever gig but still Deano was on vocals... Centrefold being the cowards they are got Lucy to chuck Deano out of the band and they then re-formed as 'Something About Sam'. Crosby became the vocalist, dropping the giutar and the line-up hasn't changed since then. They had one of their own songs by now titled 'Cheesy Ken' a cover of a Grimreaper Warlords song... it's shit. 'Something About Sam' were actually pretty good and were the transition between punk band to emo band. SAS played one gig co-headlining with the mighty 'Parrafinalien' at O'Grady's on January 2nd 2004. Later on they entered the 'Battle of the Bands' competition as their new name 'B-Movie Heroes'. They soon realised that two high profile acts already had this name and changed teir name to 'Forever In December'. And that's where we are now.