WildFire

Brendan 'Basha' O'Regan

Favourite Artists/Influences include: The Police. The RH Factor, Sting, RATM, Common, The Roots, Nathanial Townsley Trio, Stevie Wonder, Lee Morgan, Soulive, Branford Marsalis, Four Tops, Richard Bona - any quality jazz/motown/funk/rock/reggae.....but is really getting into jazz lately.

Carol 'Ace-Bass' O'Regan

After her degree she played in the National Symphony Orchestra, and taught cello and piano.  A chance conversation ended with a "bee in her bonnet" to come to London to train in Music Therapy.  She met Denis at college and the rest is History!  Carol still considers herself truly Irish!  Nowadays she is a full-time Mum-of-three, who helps her husband run his business as Comapny Secretary.

The Bass guitar, given to her by Denis at Christmas '99 was the "spark" that caused the "Wildfire"!!  Favourite artists include: David Bowie, Bjork, Sting, Donal Lunny, Afro Celt Sound System, The Verve, George Michael and anything that is creative and unusual!

Hazel 'Nutz' Westwood

As she has not sent me anything for the website, I might as well tell you that she is a complete nutter - and has been known to 'moon' against the window of our Gig Mobile!

Besides that she has a talented voice that can vary from 'gutsy to lyrical'

Ron 'Fender-Bender' Martin

Retired from bands in 1986 shortly before moving to the South of England.  Loves to play old Robby Williams and revamp old Tamla Motown music.  At age 50+, Ron is the 'old man' of the band as he is thirty five years older than the youngest member - however when it comes to his music he is as young as he feels - fifty-something!!!

Way back in the seventies, Ron played lead guitar and fronted a band called The Martin Brothers and among the line up was a sax player called Ian Kirkham.  Ian is now the sax player with Simply Red.

Sheila 'Saxcat' Winterburn

A keen hockey player in her youth, Sheila began playing tenor sax with Bishop’s Stortford Hockey Club’s Chairman’s Blues Band.  Unlike Ron, she can’t claim to have played with anyone even slightly famous, but once touched knuckles with Courtney Pine, and hopes a small fraction of his talent rubbed off.

Likes going to gigs, and listening to Radiohead, John Martyn, Lamb, Steve Winwood and Ella Fitzgerald.  Luckily, Sheila also has broader tastes, as we don’t do any of theirs!