About Lucid Dream

Lucid Dream consists of two friends, Darren Greaves and Graham Rennie, schoolfriends since age 12. Sharing musical tastes, they decided to write some songs together, just for fun.

Early performances of these songs included stints as such prestigious venues as Outside Darren's House, Sitting on Darren's Garden Wall etc, you get the idea. Anyhow, Graham moved away for a while, so they lost touch for a good few years, until one day, Graham moved back, and got back in touch with Darren. Finding out that they both still had an interest in music, they decided to meet up again, and just see what happened. Darren had put together a mini studio at home, and had been demoing songs (minus vocals, no-one needs to hear him sing!) for some time, and Graham had continued to write lyrics, sometimes with music, sometimes just poetry. The two skills still worked together, so they decided to put songs that had previously only been in their heads, down onto (virtual) tape.

The fruits of those first (alcohol laced) sessions was "What The Deuce..?" The name coming from American animated TV show "Family Guy." (What The Deuce?" is a favourite saying by Stewie Griffin, the show's baby character.) The album was a roaring success, selling almost 1 copy. You can now download that album in it’s entirety, as well as ALL of their CD’s including the latest, Surface Tension, FREE OF CHARGE from our DOWNLOADS page.

On that first CD, you can hear the nervousness and to an extent, the naivete. The production could be better, but for a first effort recorded in what effectively amounts to a spare room in Darren's house, it aint too bad.

Bouyed by the success of their debut, they released their second project, "Tell Roger He's Annoying." The name again taken from a favourite show of their's: "American Dad", made by the same makers of Family Guy.

This CD showed a lot more maturity. Production and song arrangements are better too. Stylistically, it ranges from the heavy rock opener "A Call to Arms" to mellower songs like "Same Old Sky," showing their more sentimental side, and the 15 minute epic, "Irrelevant Nightmares," a multi-segmented take on bad dreams, with sections covering guilt, falling, failure and regret.

With the release of their third CD, entitled “Trading Thoughts,” the guys are exploring even more new grouund. The title track was inspired by a trip by Darren, to the site of the World Trade Centre in New York, and seeing a poem of the same name in a church adjacent to the site. The album contains some Lucid Dream staples of catchy choruses and layered guitars, but introduces some unexpected twists, such as the opener, ”Got The T-Shirt.”

Now, their latest album, Surface Tension, which some people are already calling “their forth album so far” is more of a polished affair than the previous 3 put together. But we’ll let you hear that for yourself. Just head on over to the DOWNLOADS page, where you can get it for FREE!

Lucid Dream take their influences from a number of bands and artists, notably Queen, Marillion, Rush, Pink Floyd, Boston, Guns and Roses etc.

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