sarandon formed in 2003 in south london.
they wanted to make exciting, snappy, itchy, uncontrollable pop music and so they do.
meeting up in the drummer's front room, the band wrote seven songs, rehearsed once, played their first show and released a seven track EP.
that EP, "the miniest album", got a bunch of great reviews, radio play on the john peel show, and turned everett true into a fan.

after the second EP, "the big flame" - named after crayola's favourite band of all time - the members of sarandon took up residence in different parts of the country making their already irregular rehearsals even less frequent.
with a subtle change of personnel and huge enthusiasm from wrath records, sarandon recorded two further seven track EPs, "the feminist third" and "the june bride", recorded two live sessions for the BBC and then went to sleep for a while.

now it's 2007, joe the bass player is going to live in the USA and so in a very weird turn of fate former bIG fLAME frontman turned sarandon fan, alan brown, has taken the position of bass player, stephen gilchrist, having helped out for a few months has gotten too busy for his own good and so drum basher extraordinaire tom greenhalgh has joined up.

sarandon - still your favourite group

the line-up:

crayola: guitar / singing
formerly of 80's nobodies the colgates, crayola formed sarandon from his record collection - a blend of bogshed, bIG fLAME, wolfhounds, june brides, wire and status quo.

alan: bass / singing
founder member of bIG fLAME, sometime drummer in a witness, one man band with the great leap forward.

tom: drums
can also be found making a racket as percussionist with the immaculate andrew plummer.

sarandon in the past:

joe: bass (2003 - 2007)
founder member of sarandon and always part of the gang, joe was also in the reverse before chucking it all in to live in the USA after having a bit of a wander about.

james: drums (2003 - 2005)
founder member of sarandon, james was also in the mighty (but sadly all too short lived) HOST.

simon: drums (2005 - 2006)
simon is now a lecturer in cultural theory and beard grooming.

stephen: drums (2006 - 2007)
stephen can be found making a din as drummer with graham coxon, charlotte hatherley, and with his own band stuffy/the fuses.

also involved:

anthony chapman: production
formerly of pregnant neck & collapsed lung, anthony is a super producer and an honorary member of sarandon.

andrew plummer: horns
multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire. blows the horns for sarandon when he's not doing his own frighteningly great thing.

alex bonney: horns
everything you need to know about alex is here.

jon clayton: producer
he plays bass in the fuses, he makes a row with chris tt, he produces and mixes and continues to be a very nice man.