Icarus Sister formed in the late part of 1998, after founder members Jonny de Mallet Morgan and Joe Davey had scouted Bass player Karlos Bandito and after they had been put in touch with drummer Ben Hylands by a mutual friend.

The band spent very little time together before early February 1999, with only a couple of chance rehearsals and musical discussions at the Hove Lagoon public house prior to that.

It didn't take long however, for them to start writing songs in the hope of recording quite quickly, so that they could send the tapes to venues and play live shows.

The bands first gig came in early march of that year, supporting the Sussex Pistols at The Air Balloon, in Portsmouth. This show was not the best , but served as a good warm up for a gig the next day at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne supporting Spunge and The Skangers.

At this time the band went from the name Jedmm to Icarus.

With their first recording just being completed at Lumen studios in Brighton, it was a good time for them to adopt an original name. They called the demo "Descending" after a chapter in the book "The man who fell to earth". This also included a recording of the song "Mind", which has since become the bands anthem.

In late may of 99 Icarus played their first gig in London at the Verge in Camden town. This proved to be a success and friends of friends quickly became fans, always waiting for their next chance to see them play.

After a spell of home recording in Seaford over summer and playing live shows in London or Brighton in between, they got their first chance to record in a proper studio.

An old music school friend of jonny's who was studying sound recording at Guildford uni, needed a band to help with one of his projects.

After turning up and setting up all the equipment, they recorded without many breaks until 5.00am the next day, making themselves ill in the process . Then they tried to mix the recorded material.

A strange noise had found its way on to one of the guitar tracks and the semi pro students just sat there babbling about random noises, not really knowing what to do.

With the weekend a dead loss, Icarus decided to finish writing some new material they had started before that, and to go to a good studio that Bandito had used with a different band when he lived in Yorkshire. They went to Sunnybank studios in early December and spent a long and tiring weekend recording the largest part of the self produced album to be released in February 2000 titled "Taboo 3 even fools".

After playing a gig at Battle Abbey for the millennium celebrations, they found out that they had to change their name, as there were two other signed bands of the same name.

After a bit of deliberation the name Icarus sister was chosen and they settled into rehearsing and preparing for the release of "Taboo 3 even fools", and the party that would coincide with it at the Sound republic in Leicester Square, London.

The album sold out 500 hundred copies very quickly and the show at the Sound Republic was also a huge success, drawing a near capacity crowd to the capitol.

However, the band found it all too easy to rest on the success of the night and spent the next few months waiting for something good to happen instead of keeping up the good work , they didn't play too many shows and also didn't do much writing in this time.

After realising their mistake they settled in to writing more material and also managed to sign with small independent label "Holier than thou", who until that moment had usually dealt with true rock and metal more than any other type of music.

At the end of summer, 2000 shortly after the deal with Holier than thou was finalised, Icarus wrote some of their best material to date. The song now entitled "Six/Eight", was written in late September, although the lyrics stayed unfinished until they were driving north for some gigs in Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield.

It was the 11th of November, and surprisingly the words ended up having a great reference to World War 2, with the van being silent for two minutes of remembrance- apart from the sound of the engine and jonny scribbling words onto paper.

Icarus sister took a long winter break and moved into new rehearsal space at the beginning of February 2001, just prior to going to play repeat performances in Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield.

The space was at the Pressure Point in Brighton, [where they still rehearse.] Ben at this time was booking bands for a tuesday rock and metal night at the P.P. , and quickly managed to grab the interest of club owner Dan Wilson, and divert it towards becoming an investor in Icarus sister. after a couple of months of discussion and agreement of terms, Icarus sister signed the investment deal that would change their lives for the near future.

After spending a month polishing up some songs that had just been written, they disappeared to Outhouse studio in Reading to record the single that was part of this deal. Five days of being cooped up in the same room nearly got the better of them, but as the time progressed they realised that it was going to be special.

Ghost became the name of the single and Icarus sister returned tired but happy at the reward for their efforts through that difficult few days. Part of the contract meant that they no longer had to work to pay rent as they were paid to work for the band instead of doing a normal job. This was great although the first couple of months were spent getting pissed instead of really working, but after successful shows with Proud Mary, Kid Galahad and The Electric Soft Parade, they got down to arranging the release party for "Ghost".

The party, which was held at the Pressure Point on the 27th of September 2001 was a sell-out and a massive success for Icarus sister who gave their definitive performance that night.

To get hold of a copy of "Ghost", visit the contacts page or E-Mail at icarussister@hotmail.com.

Apart from the obvious like, having their pictures taken by Harrison funk , who just knows everyone famous, to gaining some amazing business contacts to help with the business thing.

And For the future? Hopefully good things. Watch this space.