Lee Kelleher › Tremor

Backstory

During 1999 and 2000, I was part of a rock band called Tremor (Liverpool, UK).

Previously, I'd been playing around with the bass guitar for a couple of years, but never really got my act together to join a band until I met Jeff Moore. Jeff invited me around to Paul Hagan's house for jam-session - which turned out to be an audition! We went for a pint afterwards, and asked me to the bassist.

Paul's current band, Keegan, was starting to disband, so we ended up inviting Graeme Bourque to play drums.

We spent a solid six-months song-writing and rehearsing, we wanted to be as tight as possible. By early-2000 we were ready to gig!

During our rehearsal period, there were personal tensions between Jeff and Paul, (unbeknownst to me), leading Paul deciding to leave the band. Leaving us without a rhythm-guitarist. Luckily, Jeff knew of a young demon guitarist, Ian Dunn (who I also knew of via my sister). The band was back on track!

After a few gigs, we started to get calls from promotional agents for demo CDs and even had an offer to support a touring band. However timings weren't great, I was in the middle of my final year at Uni; Jeff had a few personal things going on; we decided to call time on the mighty Tremor!

Although we only got to play 4 live gigs, we somehow managed to headline all of them. Ticking off my Liverpool venue wishlist: The Picket (twice); The LoMAX and The Cavern Club

Tremor were: Jeff Moore, Graeme Bourque, Lee Kelleher, Ian Dunn and Paul Hagan.