(Please note that your author has split up this chapter into individual profiles of the members of this band, this is for more ease)
The casual reader will not of heard of this very obscure 1990s band that go by the name "household"
Indeed this band could be described as a niche but I would say it's more of an avant- gaurd type of music, their music has a very art house influence with a mesmerising appeal. They very rarely did live performances and when they did it was to a megre crowd of onlookers who were probably unfamiliar with there brand of acoustic guitar coupled to a hefty drum kit.
But what is behind the shroud curtain of this mysterious group, as your author I shall do my best to bring you a story about this musical quartet. A story of intrig and shrouded secrets
Carrie porter
In the gloomy city of Manchester around 1968 , married couple John Adams and Mary Adams brought a child up in this industrial gloom, their child was named Christine Adams, an adopted child who as a baby was found in an old landfill near Liverpool.
Christine was a peculiar child, very much a loner at her school and she had no siblings, she was brought up in ruslehome, an area In Manchester.
This area was made up of flats and old terraced houses and was a brick and concreate utopia, the sorta place that the common person wouldn't want to go walking after dark. As a child Christine never went outside due to fear of "stalkers and night men" this fear would become serious, when she was 13 she didn't go outside for 2 months due to servre anxiety, and depression. When she was around 14, Christine was diagnosed with autism, and it took a toll out on her.
She had no friends, no brothers or sisters and a turbulent family relationship- her family was falling apart by the foundations and as a result, in 1983 she moved out of her parents house and left her old life behind her.
Christine renamed herself to Carrie porter, around the time she was 17 and lonley, shy as can be. She spend most of her time in a youth hostels and hotels around Manchester and eventually, she ended up in the mining town of bikershaw, in south Lancashire.
Carrie liked this place, it was home to one of the biggest coal mines in England, she particularly loved the steam locomotives which used to haul long trains of coal around the mine railway.
In 1985 Carrie met a man by the name of Clint west, a coal minor. they eventually fell in love but ultimately left each other, the relationship wore out its welcome. However Clint was very interested in music, he would spend hours listening to bands such as genisis, rush, pink floyd and the Dave Brubeck quartet.
He was also incredibly interested in gutairs and owned a staggering 13 bass gutairs and about 5 acoustic gutairs, keeping them in a garage he rented for this purpose.
By this time Carey had became Intrested in music, and she thus learned how to play an acoustic gutair with skill.
She would often play at bars and of the like, to much pleasure, this however would lead to her meeting one of the key members of household.
Wes Lesley
Wes was in a Lancashire bar when he met Carrie, in 1986, this was very much a critical event for the band.
Wes played drums and was the same age as Carrie, but unlike carrie, he came from an upper class background.
Born in 1968, Wes lived an exotic life and quite often went on trips around Scotland with his parents and family.
This lifestyle was enjoyable, very much to Wesley's satisfaction.
However when he was 15, his mother was diagnosed with heart disease, a traumatic event for the Lesley household.
His mother died of a heart attach in 1980,aged just 37.
Wes moved out when he left school, with about 1000 pounds in his bank account, coming from his deceased mothers will.
He lived in a flat by himself, occasionally drinking with old school freinds at a local bar.
And on one such occasion he met Carrie and they found out they had very much in common- they loved the doors and other such 60s Music and Wes could play the drums with excellence. They didn't realise it at the time but there relationship was blossoming like a patch of daffodils in springtime.
Bill and Rosie Johnson
Bill was born in 1965 and Rosie was born in 1967, they were born to the Johnson family household.
Not much is known about their childhood other than his dad was in the royal engineers and his mother was a nurse at a local hospital.
However what is known is that they were very close. Bill had to care for Rosie from an
Early age as they were by themselves quite often. They both moved out of there household around when bill was 18 and Rosie 16, each going separate ways. However once a week they would visit each other, as they were the only family they knew. Bill was Wes's best friend and Rosie was friends with Wes too.
The significance of bill and Rosie was quite simple- bill played piano and Rosie was a keen guitarist, very significant to an up and coming band.
It wasn't long before all 4 members of the band met each other, after all they all loved music, and so they started on a musical quest of virtue.