RON HOLMES
Founder member of MOTL in 1992, Ron learned his trade on the Warwickshire Working Men's Club curcuit during the Seventies, playing with Phil Dipple in The CLR Band and the legendary Warwickshire band Velvet Mist. He helped form the rock band Thud And Blunder in the late Eighties, a band which brought Ron, Al, Phil D and Paul Johnston together on stage for the first time, along with renowned Stratford fret-botherer Tom Crockett.

Ron's life-long love of folk music inspired him to start a folk act, and his deep knowledge of the music of acts like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Donovan and Melanie was the starting point for the road MOTL was to take.

ALLEN MASLEN
Like Ron, Al earned his stripes playing the Working Men's Club curcuit, blagging a plum gig as guitarist/keyboard player with top Coventry band Easy Street when he was just 21. For a number of years he scraped a living as a full-time musician, juggling numerous residencies in hotel bars and Greek restaurants. A mutual friend - Will Kenton - introduced him to Ron, who was playing in Velvet Mist at the time, and together they took part in occasional scratch band sessions at Ron's local, The Montgomery of Alamein, just outside Warwick. Eventually someone had the bright idea of forming a proper band, and Thud And Blunder was born, from whence came the side-project which was to become Meet On The Ledge. These days Al also writes and produces music for TV shopping channels. Check out the Jewellery Maker Channel on UK Freeview Channel 655 for a sample!

PHIL DIPPLE
Phil has enjoyed a gigging career spanning six decades, starting out with his brother, Roger, in a band called Solid State during the Sixties. He quickly built a reputation as one of the most solid, reliable and uncomplicated bass players in the business and this, combined with his natural sense of showmanship, has made him one of the most popular and admired musicians in his field. (Can someone please show him the way out of that field? Ed.)

He first hooked up with Ron in the 70s and they have played together in various projects for nearly 30 years, accumulating a huge fund of amusing stories about their various triumphs and scrapes during three decades of gigging together.

PHIL VICKERS
Phil has built a reputation  - and an impressive CV - as one of the finest session drummers/percussionists in the Midlands, a fact that was borne out by his selection for a series of gigs in Rick Wakeman's band in Eastern Europe shortly before he joined MOTL (Phil, not Rick Wakeman). He came up through the local ranks with Missing Morris in the seventies, Orphan at the turn of the eighties, and more latterly Murph and the Magitones, Alias and the Earl Gray Band. He also played with the late, great Clifford T Ward, and toured the UK with 70s chart-toppers Badfinger. Also a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Phil has released an album of his own material entitled 'Seeming Randomly Placed at First Glance'.