About Mohair
Mohair are an English rock band, formed in 1998 in Watford, Hertfordshire. The band is composed of drummer Pete Baker, vocalist/guitarist Tom Billington, keyboardist Alex Lee-Richards and bassist Tim Slade. The members of Mohair had played in various bands since their early teens.
The band initially split in 2007, but in January 2019 they announced they would be reforming for a one-off show at London's Borderline club in the June of that year.
Tom Billington is quoted in an early press release about the band's formation:
"We were all in bands, together and separately, from the age of about 12. Pete and I went to the same primary school and he met Tim at 'big' school when they started their first blues band. I had a band with my brother and sister playing covers stuff, while Alex was lurking away the other side of the county playing classical concerts and in the church choir!
Tim joined my band when we were about 15 then Pete came in on trumpet. I met Alex at a musical theatre show we were both involved in a year or so later. This evolved into a 10-piece soul band until I left school and went traveling in India for a year – where I started to write songs.
When I got back, it was just the 4 of us left. Everyone else had gone to university or got jobs…and that was it really...it all started from there. And that's when we knew there was no other way for us to live."
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