Here’s a question for you – what happens when five of the world’s best session musicians find themselves with time to spare during lockdown? Well, they form a band and go and write and record an album, obviously! BIG HORIZON are Mike Stevens, Iain Hornall, Donovan Hepburn, Jo Webb & Lee Pomeroy. They have been the backbone of Jeff Lynne’s ELO since 2013 and Take That’s band since 2006 (longer for some!). As Mike explains ‘Big Horizon’ has been around for a lifetime in our minds! The band represents a group of friends and musicians bringing together their musical loves in one place’ Those friends have played for Take That, ELO, Annie Lennox, Adele, 10cc, Yes and they were the house band for the Queens Golden Jubilee concert in 2012. But when the UK & Europe leg of the ELO tour was cancelled due to Covid in 2020 the guys finally started to make the band a reality. ‘We definitely live in that Yacht Rock world thanks to our singer Iain’ says guitarist Jo, ‘and even a bit of prog thanks to bassist Lee but overall, we are trying to write catchy classic pop songs that everyone can relate to’. ‘We’ve got four vocalists in the band’ points out drummer Donovan ‘which means we can have a lot of fun with harmonies and with Mike on sax we can return to the days of Steely Dan and Earth Wind & Fire when nobody was afraid of a horn section!’ As part of the recording process for the album the band decamped to the legendary Rockfield Studios in South Wales. ‘To be able to record in the same studio where Queen recorded Bohemian Rhapsody was just an amazing experience’ explains bassist Lee, ‘the tape machine they used is still there!’ You can see a few videos that the band recorded at Rockfield on their You Tube channel. With two singles released so far ‘In The Beginning’ and ‘From The Inside Out’ BIG HORIZON are set to release their debut album on November 8th. ‘Although it’s our debut album it feels like we’ve been making it all our lives!’ says Iain.