Iain Hornal

As an in-demand session musician Hornal has had the great fortune to work with some of the biggest artists of all time. He is a long-standing touring member of both art-pop giants 10cc and Jeff Lynne's ELO. He has toured with Yes (playing and singing the parts of the late Chris Squire), Take That, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Paul Young. Between extended periods of life on the road, Hornal flexes his creative muscles in the studio. The songs of his other band Big Horizon (featuring four other members of Jeff Lynne’s ELO) are mostly stories and character studies set to feel-good chord changes, inspired by Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers. By contrast, his solo songwriting comes from a more autobiographical place. Sitting somewhere between the crafted songsmithery of Tom Petty and Crowded House, and the widescreen art-pop of Brian Wilson and David Bowie.