

Lead vocals. Sue is the newest member of the band, having joined in March 2007, and has enjoyed learning all the great songs which were already in the band’s repertoire, as well as adding some of her own favourites. She has always loved singing, and having at various times in the past attempted to play the piano, guitar and saxophone, eventually realised that a) she lacks the patience to learn an instrument, and b) it would probably be quite dangerous to practice any of the aforementioned whilst driving. Sue also enjoys amateur dramatics, but tries not to indulge in any at band rehearsals.

Lead guitar, backing vocals. Simon is old enough and grey enough to know better. Previous bands include Chorleywood's finest Nuclear Rouge, High Wycombe-based Vermin and, in the mid 1980s, Harry and the Jump Jets. None of these bands did anything of great note; Nuclear Rouge were once mentioned in the NME as "managing to prove that with maximum effort, they were capable of the minimum." Harry and the Jumps Jets briefly supported Howard Jones in 1984/85. They went on to play in Amersham, Jones to play Live Aid. Go figure. Simon then got his priorities straight and ramped up the day job. Until 2002. He was contacted by a couple of the Rouge who decided to make a two show reunion. Sure he was no longer a rockaholic Simon agreed - and realised when the shows went really well that he was still hooked. Two years later he put a desperate little ad on a musician website, and after a few false starts helped to gather the individuals that are now collectively the Crisis.

Drums (and webmaster). Stewart moved to South Northants with his family in 1997, having been impressed by the music the area had to offer. At the time, this was mostly for the benefit of his three children who have all grown to be talented musicians. In 2001, no longer satisfied with living vicariously through his children's musical achievements, Stewart decided to jump on the musical bandwagon and avoided the easily portable choices (harmonica, piccolo, vibraslap) to take up the biggest, most unwieldy instrument in the band. Which makes him an idiot. Since that time, Stewart has taken every opportunity to inveigle himself into the company of anyone who wants things hit with sticks in a more or less rhythmic fashion.