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[Apollo Four Forty:]

	"Noko" Norman Fisher-Jones "Frederick Pasquan" "William Brel"	Guitar, Lyrics Vocals, Electronics	(The Legend Of Frederick Pasquan & the E-Z Drum & Bass Orchestra & The Noko Shrine [for utter craziness]) "Fender/Ovation wielding reincarnation of himself." (1997 site) Birthdate: Unknown! Birthplace: Liverpool, UK (I'm assuming this) Stuff photos don't say (personality, random info): Sarcastic chap. In firm belief he is the reincarnation of Zaius from Return To The Planet Of The Apes (a cartoon based on POTA; yea right). Admires Devoto, Van Halen, Sweet Exorcist, Jean Baudrillard and various other people, but listing them would not help anyone understand Noko any more - though he knows what creativity is, and when he finds something, he clings to it {Well, till he figures phrases like "The most important man alive" don't catch}. Obsessed with "the next step in man's evolution" and immortality. Can be fascinated with the most trivial things, i.e. the length of corridors in old buildings. Gesticulates like mad. Habit of chewing air and bobbing his head like a bird. Chirp. Studied psychology - like all insane people. Seems to like Japan (See name). Has a thing for architecture. Kinda forgot about www.noko440.com once and the registration expired - forgot to pay or forgot to renew? Has a new hairstyle since the 24th of March (it's black again, though). Was in class together with H (& in school with H & T-Bone). Lives in E5, Hackney, London, UK (for the uninitiated: Not the best place to hang out. Website owner still doesn't know why on earth he'd choose to live there.). Favorite GHOYOS track: High On Your Own Supply. Shared the basketball team with Hunter in his school days. And OMG LOLZ0R. L00k @ hs absolute sw33333tly <3 gorgeous Self && OMG LOLZ0r!, hes in a band called franKenStein And ROFLLOL they made THse h3re lyircs!. ....More information will be aquired in this section, and if I have to kill to get it. *crazed look* former band: Luxuria/Adultery, The Cure (....)
	"H" Howard Gray "Hunter" "Howie G"	Engineering / Mixing	"Midnight-cowboy." (1997 site) Birthdate: Unknown! Birthplace: Sydney, Australia (or the whereabouts) Personality & Info: Silent, reserving, speaks when absolutely feeling the need to and otherwise not. Actually takes his job seriously. Gasp. 'Morbid'. (That's quoting MTV's Simone.) "I like big girls." Continue sentance, then add 'and fetish clubs'. Was in the same class as Noko in school (and in school with both him and T-Bone). Played basketball together with Noko (same team) in his school days. Don't look at me like that, I don't know anything else.
	"T-Bone" Trevor Gray	Keyboards	"Ex-champion pit-bull breeder. / Qualified New Age therapist." (1997 site) Birthdate: Unknown! Birthplace: Liverpool, UK (I assume) Personality: Soccer obsessed, probably robbed of the childhood dream of playing in Liverpool FC by joining the band (he must so regret it *evil grin*) - every second sentance is bound to have a referrance to football. Listening to him you get the idea he may've been better not as a player of soccer, but a commentator. Charming smile, hopelessly overused however. Childish, playful, capable of driving people insane simply by smiling. Despite that, there was actually a person able to bear him that tought him classic piano playing. Other things remain a mystery

[Band Members:]

	"MaryMary" Ian Garfield Hoxley "Mary Byker" "Mary Magdelite"	Vocals, Lyrics	Birthdate: Unknown! Birthplace: Leicester Personality: The sane anchor attatched to the above trio. Still quite queer, but can actually speak like a normal person, even if the name of his former band (Gaye Bykers On Acid) may lead to believe otherwise. Has a friend in the Camden shop insane - the irony. [Yo!rg disagrees with me on his sanity.] He likes cycling (as if the GHOYOS CD-Extra wasn't the proof of that). (quoting:) Married to a brazilian woman. Likes snowboarding. Has been arrested several times for being drunk and disorderly. "One time in Leicester I was detained in the cells for smashing the windows of the polytechnic." Considers the best advice he was ever given "Live each day as it comes." Can cook pie. His hero is Eddy Merkx. (quoting:) "tiny, affable, gregarious" . Needed a place to hang out, @440 obliged ["They kept me locked in the gimp box!"]. Noko: "Mary's like a box - he's got these buttons marked 'rap' and you push them and he makes up a rhyme and we stick a tune behind it."
	Cliff Hewitt "Sly Diva"	Dangerous drums, Drums	Birthdate: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown. Personality: "People who say drums aren't melodic instruments should be shot!". Extremist of creativity. 'nuff said. Well, maybe not. I quote the Shrine's number one enemy (and the official number one fan): >>Cliff: smart/intelligent - gentle - likes 'Krautrock' (CAN, Neu!, etc)<< Is about to release his solo album under the 'Sly Diva' alias.
	Paul Kodish	Drums	Birthdate: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown. Personality: Yo!rg sez: >> - smart/clever - polite - drives old Volkswagen Microbus<< More is just un-fricken-known.
	Harry K	Vinyl	Birthdate: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown. Personality: Yo!rg threw in my direction that he's actually a qualified hairdresser. Um. Right. Er. Onwards. He likes playing playstation, according to the 'Maximum Roach' site. What are you looking at? I don't know more, and I don't like it!
	Rej	Bass	Birthdate: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown. Personality: Void. I dunno.
	Kenny Cougar	Bass, Melodica	Birthdate: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown. Personality: Whilst my guess is 'meow' about fits it, no, I don't know.

[Contributors / Former Band Members:]

		Current or Last Band
	"Howard Devoto" Howard Trafford	2002: ShelleyDevoto	Magazine fanpage Did the lyrics of Film Me And Finish Me Off, aswell as Pain Is A Close-Up Birthdate: Unknown! Birthplace: Manchester, UK < assumption Personality: Very egocentric, although (in my opinion) he still underestimates himself half as much as most people around him .... at least he does now, in his times with Buzzcocks, Magazine, as Solo and with Luxuria he could start heated debates about details such as why "Luxuria" is the perfect band name. *smirk* Plays the role of an intellectual, also is one, but if you prod him a little you figure there are some layers of his being that just didn't grow up. Apparently thinks like Noko. Also is paranoid about losing the values he grew up with to himself. Excellent lyricist, gothic soul despite his punk-rock orientation and the recent swing over to electronic music via Pete Shelley (of ShelleyDevoto). Really doesn't want to have anything to do with music anymore, lingered in musical silence for over 11 years, now came out to do a test prod at the charts. Failed miserably at that. Lesson the last 11 years taught him? Be modest.
	James E. Garner	Till 1995: Apollo 440	Founded the band with Noko, H and T-Bone, then left the band after Millennium Fever. Personality: More silent than H, that's for sure. He taught music at a university in New Zealand (Auckland?). He, too, was born in Liverpool (1962). Biography page, more information than you'll ever need.
	Billy MacKenzie	Till 1997: The Associates	Vocalist in 'Pain In Any Language'. Commited suicide early 1997, soon after completion of the song and before the release of Electro Glide In Blue.