Bryon Adamson-Woods

Bryon Adamson is a Scots-born multi-instrumentalist and artist, raised in the New Forest on the South coast of England. He played bass on all of the Restoration II material, additionally playing bass, keyboards and additional guitar on Revolution By Night's only full length release 1995's album "Breathe". He also played guitar, bass and piano on the band's cover version "Kingdom Come" which was released on the "Forevermore - A Tribute to The Mission" album in Germany. He co-composed every original Revolution By Night track, including the track "Selling Heaven" which was released on the "Dreams In The Witch House" compilation CD. When Revolution By Night progressed to a future-pop / electro / synth-pop format in 2000, he wrote mainly on keyboards and played keys live. In early live shows, he additionally played guitar, and for the band's live show at Leipzig's WGT (2000) he played entirely on guitar. Around the time of the release of the "Faithless" EP in 2003, Adamson dropped the double-barrelled surname. The band "rebranded" simply as "RBN" in 2006, and released the self-produced "Machine Code EP" in time for their UK tour with Swedish scene giants Covenant and Norway's Pride And Fall. Adamson also contributed co-lead vocals to RBN's remix of Straftanz's eponymous track, aptly named "Straftanz UK (featuring RBN)", which although not released officially, was made available on Straftaz's MySpace page and was performed live by RBN several times. It was also performed by both bands together twice in London. Adamson also did much of the work on remixes for other bands such System:FX, Reaper and Nachtmahr, credited as RBN. The exception to this was RBN's remix for Komor Kommando, on which he had no part and states that he was only aware of the project after it was completed. Adamson produced all the graphic material and logo design for all forms of the band up to, but not including, the official of the full-length album, "City Lights", which was released under the name of Stok:holm. In the months prior to the release of this album, the band and management took the decision to rename the band (in light of the more searchable Rock Band Network and advice from several European DJs in the scene). The decision was then taken to scrap Adamson's artwork and use different designers for the release artwork, which Adamson felt further increased problems with certain band personnel recognising his creative and organisational input to the band. Further, with the only live RBN date of 2011 having been performed after a single rehearsal, Adamson insisted that the only live date of 2013 for Stok:holm be cancelled, considering the band insufficiently prepared. However, with the band no longer on the bill, Stok:holm vocalist and DJ Steve Weeks kept the support slot and played a clearly pre-prepared electro-hard tech-noise set with a fellow DJ. With rehearsals not forthcoming and estrangement from other band members continuing to grow, Adamson decided to put his involvement with them on ice. He relocated to Scotland in early 2015, and at the time of this edit, no further music projects have been announced. The return of Stok:holm at some stage had seemed entirely possible until an attempt to reform the band without Adamson was attempted; something to which he strenuously objected.