Andrea Bongers
Barely legal, Andrea has graced us with her extraordinary voice while in between coveted music programs at Berkeley and McGill. Although trained in jazz she is in rock and pop heaven with Force Majeure. Her mom went to school with Gary and her pops used to sail with Paul. She brings the average age of the band way down, for which we thank her. We try to convince her that getting to our age and still rockin’ isn’t so bad but we can see the fear in her eyes.

Jim Dale
Jimmy’s got an awesome studio in his basement that his wife, Lisa, lets us rehearse in sometimes (thanks Lisa!). He says he has a day job but nobody knows what it is and we think all he does is play in bands. A multi-talented musician and vocalist, it can be a challenge to lock him down to only 1 instrument. Following extensive negotiation, we agreed on keys, a little acoustic guitar sprinkled with some stellar vocals.

Mark Masur
Mark plays drums and wants to be in as many bands as Jim. He has a day job selling routers (magic boxes) or something like that.  He knows the words to every song ever written, which would be useful if he was singing most of our songs, but he’s not because we have Heela and Andrea who can actually sing, so mostly it’s just annoying. Thinks the band is named after him but was misspelled.

Gary Mattan
As the newly anointed head of International M&A for BMO, Gary officially calls London home these days. He bounces back and forth across the pond so frequently that he doesn’t know what time it is and naps between songs. Not liking to be in the same city for more than 5 consecutive days, our International Man of Mystery has somehow managed to make most of our band practices in a semi-conscious state. You might spot him at an airport near you, wearing a KISS t-shirt with guitar always in tow.

Paul Morris
Paul is our resident Brit who resides in TO. Laced with a real British accent, Paul spends his working hours customizing charts for the band and practicing his guitar licks until they are perfect. He has a cheeky British comeback  for every scenario possible, which is why we won’t be letting him say anything at the gig. The rest of the band has fun saying ‘charts’ with a British accent but Paul is unaware that we are doing it. He thinks it’s normal.

Anil Puri
Easily the sweetest member of the band, Anil smiles a lot and plays a mean bass. We feel it is only a short time before he tells us what he really thinks of us. He is also the band snack mascot, reliably keeping our bellies full of Twizzlers when we jam. Anil keeps busy doing important work on the Board of AUSUM CHARITY FOR AUTISM.  We like to play at his charity events too.

Heela Donsky Walker
Heela is a repeat offender at AIDSbeat, having appeared in various iterations of previous bands made-up of mostly the same musicians.  When she’s not practising Wills and Estates law at Robins Appleby LLP, she is vigorously training  her 3-year old on vocal mic technique in the hopes of bringing « fresh blood » onto the scene. Aiming for an AIDSbeat 2020 debut. Secret fact – Heela worked at an AIDSbeat some years ago before being recruited into a band. She will deny this if asked.