Ian Alec Harvey Dench

Born: August 7, 1964 (Leo) in Cheltenham.

Parents: Mother Jackie is a secretary, father Harold is a postman.

Brothers: Alan who is a mechanical engineer and Paul who is an electronics engineer.

Son: Teo

Hair: Dirty blonde

Eyes: Blue

Former band: Apple Mosaic

Favorite bands: Robby Kreiger of The Doors, Eric Clapton.

Self dislike: "I'm a really heavy sleeper so I always wake up dribbling and stuff. I thought I was quite good looking, but the rest of the band are a lot hunkier."

I’ve been writing songs with Amanda Ghost for almost 10 years now. I still love playing live although a cup of tea and a biscuit after a gig is as wild as I get these days. I do all sorts of projects with Amanda; TV music (The Wright Stuff on Five) songs for films (A cover of Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain Of Sand” for M Night Shalayman’s Lady in The Water) a song for Beyonce (Beautiful Liar for her B-day Album) and we’re developing a couple of acts, Hugo Chakrabongse a Thai prince who sounds like Crosby Stills and Nash, and an amazing singer songwriter called Scott Macmanan.

Spain has become a second home cause my partner Virginia is from Madrid and we have a son Teo who already understands more Spanish than I do... well almost (he’s 2).