The Ramshackle Music Collective

Tom Fassnidge has been playing guitar for over three decades, although this is not apparent at first glance as he has spent most of that time not practising. He initially wanted to be Paul McCartney, then decided in his teens that he would prefer to be Paul Weller. Now that he has mostly given up singing, he would be perfectly content to be a hybrid of J Mascis and Nile Rodgers.

Tom was born in the West Country and grew up in West London, where he met a pre-Kingsley Beat Kingley Beat. They accidentally went to the same university and formed a three-piece band, which decreased the likelihood that they would outnumber the audience at the small number of shows they played. He has now been playing with Kingsley Beat and the RMC on and off for more than 20 years.

Victoria Coren Mitchell thinks that Tom looks like Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock

Steve Harrison is a man of few words but believe us he is an excellent musician. When he's not playing with the RMC he has his own side project, Steve Harrison and Friends Music.  You definitely should check his music out on all the usual digital platforms.  

He also has physical copies that you can buy so next time you see him stop him and buy one, he would be absolutely delighted

Steve's influences include:

Randy Newman

Loudin Wainwright

Jake Thackery

Belle and Sebastien

Dave Graham has been playing the drums with Kingsley Beat and Tom F since 1995 when they met at University and formed a three-piece band called Diamond.

He has been in loads of bands over the years and his Influences are varied. Right now he has been revisiting a lot of the Cure (David says Boris Williams was an amazing drummer for them) and also Thomas Wydler from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 

Chris Hampson is a multi instrumentalist, music teacher and producer, with a wealth of

varied musical experience in live music and in a studio setting. He began taking piano

lessons at age 8, eventually studying under acclaimed virtuoso Polina Gerasimenko, giving

him a direct musical lineage back to Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. At age 12 he began

to teach himself other instruments, and now plays and teaches bass guitar, upright bass,

piano, and guitar.

His first performance was at age 13 and he has since played, recorded and toured

internationally with a wide variety of bands and artists, ranging in genre from jazz quintets

and folk bands to extreme metal bands and gaana fusion projects. 

Over the past few years

he has worked with renowned tabla player Sanju Sahai, Devon-based band Dystopian

Wrath, Doors tribute band The Doors Of Perception, award-winning folk rock trio Elias

Martell, London singer/songwriter Kingsley Beat, and countless others.

Robbie Gordon is the conga and percussion maestro.  He has the biggest smile and always makes you feel good.  He also hasn't submitted anything in his own words but we're hoping he might add a line or two about himself once of these days (hint hint Robbie)

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Twickenham-based vocalist Shelle Luscombe is a purveyor of all things voice. When she’s not warbling her favourite covers in function bands, she’s collaborating on an exciting chillout music project or providing backing vocals for a wide variety of independent artists. Aside from that, she’s a voiceover artist, presenter and event MC. She also runs open mic and live music showcase nights, and curates the music for festivals and events.

Having long been a fan of Kingsley Beat’s music and with passion for harmonies, Shelle very much enjoyed sprinkling vocal fairy dust on several tracks

Shelle has recently taken on her own show on www.tfsradio.co.uk and can be heard on Saturdays between 4.00pm and 7.00pm