Dino Randhawa guitar.

"Music and life are all about style".
Miles Davis.

Thoughts;
"It's so exciting to be in such a diverse band with a family of musicians from such a wide ranging and eclectic variety of musical backgrounds".
Dino.

Currently listening to:
Gil Scott Heron – ‘Spirits’
Incubus – ‘Light Grenades’
Lauren Hill – ‘MTV Unplugged’.

DINO RANDHAWA BIOG
Dino first picked up a guitar when he was ten
years old after ditching the clarinet and confesses
that it was his Dad who first encouraged him to
play:
"Dad was always playing Hendrix and the
Beatles around the house and I used to just jam
along to tunes like 'Wild Thing' and 'Hey Joe' on a
budget, forty quid nylon acoustic that he bought me,
just soloing over the top of songs, nothing too
complicated".

Dino soon took up guitar lessons with local guitar
player Noel Martin who introduced the ten year
old to music from Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa.
After a couple of years, Noel started taking his
young apprentice to attend weekly blues jams
in the back room of a pub near to Dino's home
in Palmers Green, North London:
"One or two of the musicians that went to those
nights (including Noel) were inspirational for me.
They not only helped me to improve my playing
and develop my own style, but they introduced me
to the sounds of other guitarists, namely Stevie
Ray Vaughan and Robert Johnson, with licks that
stimulated my desire to play and improve".

When the "Electric Blues Club" jam sessions shut
down, Dino, now playing a Japanese Strat, started
writing his own music and lyrics. Still only in his
mid teens Dino joined and played in a number of
different rock and funk bands, but cites his most
influential band as being the six piece funk band
Snach:
"Being around such competent musicians
taught me loads about music and about being in a
band environment. We played all over London
from the Jazz café to the Verge in Camden, it was
a quality experience".

After finishing his A levels and being accepted at
Sussex University, (now graduated) Dino
admits that his guitar playing was neglected for
about a year, he says:
"I wasn't having lessons anymore and I felt like I
lacked direction, but that's not to say that I
stopped istening to new music. I was broadening
my musical palette to incorporate stuff like
Shostakovich and Schubert".
It wasn't until he discovered that housemate James
also played guitar that Dino started practising again:
"James played me his EP Scrap Paper and we
started jamming together and then writing some
original material of our own. Then James
introduced me to Rob. The pair of them got me
along to record my guitar parts for the Melodious
Star EP and that's when Two Spot Gobi
happened for me".