Biography

Band Biography
Tweek were born in the late summer of 1998 with the original line-up consisting of Dave McKenna(vocals), Jared McGivern(drums),Tim Collis(guitar), Mark Turner(guitar) and myself, Gareth Casey(bass).
For sometime Dave and Tim had been playing together and initially formed a band featuring Tim on guitar, Dave reluctantly playing bass, Jared on drums and Ali MacMillan on vocals. They were then soon joined by Mark playing second guitar. With this line-up achieving little, Dave took on the role of vocalist and I was invited to play bass by Tim (who I knew through playing hockey with him). With our early practises taking place in Jared's Garage, we were soon playing lots of very bad covers of the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and Deftones.
By Christmas, however, we faced the loss of Mark to health problems. Not perturbed, we took a radical change in direction towards that of funk and started to write our own songs with Dave now playing second guitar. In early January, our first ever song, called Funkmaster 5, was created and it still remains a favourite to this day.
We were soon on our way towards having enough material for a CD so in mid May we booked studio time for late June 1999. Come a week before the recording session, however, only seven songs were complete with a number still incomplete. Luckily, we were just about able to get them all wrapped up in time (although Dave was still writing lyrics on the way to the studio). Having recorded our target of ten tracks, we then decided to spontaneously throw a bonus track together. On that very morning, Tim and myself had busied ourselves (while Dave and Jared were writing lyrics for Ruthless) on a little ditty which was soon to become New Guy Dude Fiend. Having spent about 20 minutes writing it, we had two distinct parts but that was it. Dave had no lyrics, only Tim knew what he was going to play and we only had one take. The album was then hastely mixed (infact a couple of tracks weren't even mixed because we ran out of time) and Counterfeit was born.
By late Autumn, we had written a further five songs but unable to wait to have a complete album, returned to the studio to record a five track EP (although a sixth bonus track was a late addition). This CD, however, took a heavier, darker direction to its predecessor (with the noteable exception of I've Seen George) but was more of a snapshot of where we were at that point in time than anything else.
All that was left was to play a gig and come Spring 2000, we finally achieved what we had always aimed towards and played two gigs. The second gig being particularly enjoyable as it was with our old rivals(?), the Retards and Farlow.The atmosphere and support was nothing short of amazing and all three bands played their socks off. It was absolutely awesome. That gig also saw Chris Collis (Tim's Bro) join us on stage to do some DJing which was very cool.
Since then things have been relatively quiet with various members persuing projects outside of Tweek. Jared became a member of Ten Men Jen, Tim featured on the Datura album but subsequently left and I had a brief stint filling in on bass for the now defunct Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
2001 promises to be an eventful year with more gigs, the possibility of a live album and a new studio album
Cheers for taking the time to read this, Casey