This Town Needs Guns

This Town Needs Guns (now known as TTNG) are a British math rock band from Oxford, formed in 2002. Following numerous departures, the band went from being a four-piece to a trio, featuring Henry Tremain on bass and lead vocals, Tim Collis on guitar and his brother Chris Collis on drums. Their debut full-length album, Animals, was released in the UK via Big Scary Monsters Recording Company in October 2008 and shortly after in the US via Sargent House Records. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

This Town Needs Guns (now known as TTNG) are a British math rock band from Oxford, formed in 2002. Following numerous departures, the band went from being a four-piece to a trio, featuring Henry Tremain on bass and lead vocals, Tim Collis on guitar and his brother Chris Collis on drums. Their debut full-length album, Animals, was released in the UK via Big Scary Monsters Recording Company in October 2008 and shortly after in the US via Sargent House Records. The original lineup consisted of Stuart Smith on rhythm guitar and vocals, Tim Collis on lead guitar, Simon Thompson on drums and Ian Lewis on bass. Thompson and Lewis left the band in 2005, to be replaced by Dan Adams on bass (replaced by Jamie Cooper after the recording of Animals in 2008) and Matt Bennington on drums (replaced by Chris Collis, brother of guitarist Tim, in 2006). In their earlier careers, bassist Jamie Cooper had worked as a graphic designer, drummer Chris Collis had been a librarian at the University of Oxford, guitarist Tim Collis was a primary school teacher, and lead vocalist Stuart Smith worked building websites for a publisher. On 11 May 2011, it was announced on This Town Needs Guns' website that lead singer Stuart Smith would be leaving the band to start a family, and that he would be replaced by Pennines' singer and guitarist Henry Tremain. Bassist Jamie Cooper also left the band in late 2011 to focus on a career in graphic design. Tremain has since taken over on bass guitar duties, converting the band into a power trio. Name change: With the release of their second album 13.0.0.0.0, the band announced that they would be calling themselves TTNG. They stated that the name was ironic because guns are hardly present in their hometown of Oxford, and the UK in general. As the band became more known around the world, the name was no longer clearly ironic. The band also felt uncomfortable with their name due to the issues of gun violence worldwide and in particular the United States, and wanted to distance themselves from those associations. Current members: Tim Collis – guitar (2002–present)Chris Collis – drums, percussion (2006–present)Henry Tremain – lead vocals (2011–2018, 2019–present), bass (2012–present), guitar (2011–2012, 2016–2018), backing vocals (2018–2019) Former members: Simon Thompson – drums (2002–2005)Ian Lewis – bass (2002–2005)Matt Bennington – drums (2005–2006)Stuart Smith – lead vocals, guitar (2002–2011, 2018–2019)Dan Adams – bass, trumpet (2005–2008)Jody Prewett – piano, guitar, backing vocals (2007–2008)Jamie Cooper – bass, backing vocals (2008–2011) Former touring musicians: Chris Baker – bass, guitar (2012)Henry Kohen – bass (2016–2018)Garrett Karp – trumpet, piano, additional percussion (2018–2019) See also: TTNG Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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