The LPs: Biographies

Larry Van Kriedt      -     see what Wikipedia says.

Larry was born in San Francisco into a musical family. His father was the renowned jazz musician Dave Van Kriedt who composed, arranged played and recorded with such giants as Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond; Stan Kenton; and many more. All of Larry’s life has been around music, particularly jazz. He began playing the double bass at age 9, guitar at 12 years, and included saxophone and vocals to the list at 15. He studied jazz, harmony, composition and musical arrangement with his father, Dave.

In 1969 his family moved to Sydney, Australia. Here at an early age he started his professional career and his passion for recording music. One of his first studio sessions was as the bassist in the original line-up of AC/DC in 1972. He has played many different styles of music and has been involved with making many albums both as an artist and as a producer and to this day owns and operates his own recording studio.

He has written and recorded songs that have been successful in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the U.S., Europe, and North Africa.

Paul Agbakoba

Born and schooled in London where he studied photography and, later, audio visuals. Attended Bournemouth Film School in 1989. In 1993 Paul came to Sheffield to do his M/A in Film Production at the Northern Media School.

On arriving in Sheffield Paul began integrating with the local music scene eventually joining forces with Alex Young on the ‘Make It Funky’ night.
Paul, with Fitzroy Douglas and Steve Mckinley, formed the legendary Stepin Razor attracting the attention of several major record companies and many Blades supporters.

1996 to 1998 were spent touring the UK and Europe with Moloko., Paul’s television appearances with Moloko include The White room, Hotel Babylon, MTV, the French Canal+, as well as television broadcasts in Holland, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark.

One of the founders of Bok Studio, at Stag works in Sheffield, Paul works as a producer, engineer, and session musician.