Photo © David Levine

Massive Ego was formed in 1996 with original band members Marc Massive and Andy JT. Fronting the band from the beginning ex model and dancer for Boy George’s 90’s band, Jesus Loves You, Marc went on to DJ and co-curate London's ACT ART events for several years. Massive Ego were originally at the centre of the short lived new romantic revival scene in London entitled Romo, which culminated in a glowing half page live review by journalist Simon Price in the UK music magazine, Melody Maker. Over the years, and many line-up changes Massive Ego have played the length and breadth of the UK, performing in nightclubs and festivals, including London’s Finsbury Park and Trafalgar Square as well as various venues across Europe. The band's seen several single and album releases in the UK (Klone/Public Disordar Records) Germany (ZYX) as well as releases in the USA (Ninthwave Recordings), Belgium (Black Leather Records), Japan (Avex Trax) and Australia (Pro-DJ). Massive Ego is well known for their experimental visuals and videos, which have seen heavy rotation in clubs, bars and malls across America through Club Vision, and have featured on well over 40 compilation albums, released by the above labels. In 2012 the band began working on new material with Irish electronic band Empire State Human with whom they released, Sound Of The Download on Massive Ego’s own independent label, Public DisordAr Records which went down a storm with an ecstatic crowd at the Summer Rites Festival 2012 in London's Shoreditich Park. A stand alone digital single release of Massive Ego’s, dark electronic gothic cover Hazel O’Connor's iconic 80’s track Eighth Day was released on Halloween 2012, and all profits were donated to an animal welfare charity. Known for their new wave pop sound, all that changed in 2013 when Marc Massive became more interested in the darker Ebm/industrial/goth scene and from this point forward all new material reflected this shift in direction. Early 2013 saw Marc put down lyrics and vocals on the track, Dead Silence, produced by Lia Organa & Electric Prince, and released through Belgian label Black Leather Records, which was accompanied by a unique video created by Polish filmmakers/artists Suka Off, alongside a remix package that includes mixes by The Horrorist and People Theatre. Followed by another collaborative release with Emprire State Human with their EP release, Low Life. In 2014 work began on a new EP entitled Noise In The Machine, with remixer and producer Lloyd Price involved in the production. With the track’s completed, Marc secured a remix from Daniel Graves (Aesthetic Perfection) and sent the EP off to a couple of labels, and Out Of Line Records based in Berlin, Germany signed the band in early 2015. The finishing touches have been added to the EP, with a new remix of thelead song, I Idolize You by the legendary Claus Larsen aka Leaether Strip completing the CD. 2015 also saw the final new line-up changes take place with Lloyd Price departing from his previous band, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and joining Massive Ego full time on keyboards and programming . On percussion Oliver Frost, who's been in the band since 2014, was joined by newest member Scot Collins after answering an advert on-line for a keyboard player. Scot’s live experience and grittier harder industrial sound moulded perfectly with the new Massive Ego sound and was hired immediately. Since then the bands  schedule has been hectic as they're working hard on their debut album, due to be released on Out Of Line records late 2015, following an EP release around July 2015. As a taster to the EP, the record label have just included I Idolize You on their hugely successful Electrostorm CD compilation series, which is now onto Vol 6, and was released on 22nd May 2015, and the video for the track reached over 16,000 views in a matter of weeks.

Photo: David Levine

Marc Massive's first taste of showbiz came in 1989 where he was asked to dance (vogue) for MC Kinky who was just about to release her drug rave anthem, Everything Starts With An E, upon an unsuspecting British public. Marc spent two years dancing for MC Kinky and label boss Boy George with his Jesus Loves You project. His eyes were opened. Marc then spent four years as a model with Storm Models in London, running catwalks for the likes of Paul Smith, D&G and John Richmond and appearing in many pop videos for various artists including Take That, Wet Wet Wet, Holly Johnson and Roxette to name a few,  and received editorial in magazines such as I.D, Dazed & Confused and Attitude magazine. Massive Ego's first gig took place in 1996 at the HQ club in Camden Lock, London, for a Romo (80‘s new romantic revival scene) night entitled, Club Skinny, and the rest is history.

Photo: Marc Massive

Oliver frost initially joined Massive Ego in 2004 as a synth player during live performances, however following the new band line up in 2015 he began to play percussion - drawing on his experience playing drums during the early 90‘s whilst training in contemporary dance. Prior to meeting Marc and coming on board with the band Oliver trained in various fields of art and design, including contemporary dance, performance, and fine art. He also set up and ran his own café in Clerkenwell, London for several years, alongside various nightclub promotions. Since completing his BA in Fine Art in 2013 he has designed and created several residential interiors, and curated the annual London based ACT ART event for 8 years, 6 of which we're co-curated with Marc Massive. In 2012 Oliver and Marc became vegan's and began campaigning for animal rights, in the same way that Oliver had during his teenage years whilst he was a vegetarian. In 2013 the pair went on to study on various printmaking, textiles and graphic design courses so that they could collaborate together in designing and making items for the printmaking venture they run alongside the band. Oliver is also a keen gardener, and enjoys up-cycling furniture, creating mosaics and expanding his visual interests. Although he fundamentally considers himself a visual artist, his practise in all fields of art, design and music means that each field benefits from his experience in multiple disciplines. oliverfrost.com

Photo: Simon Isaac

A true synth freak, Lloyd has been building up an arsenal of kit, which includes: ​

Lloyd Price first started dabbling around with music while during his school days. Armed with a cheap Casio SK200 sampler, he messed around putting basic ideas together, trying to emulate the sounds he’d heard around the neighbourhood which included Kraftwerk, Human League and being an Essex boy, and growing up in deepest Essex, Depeche Mode. Fast forward 14 years, and Lloyds first proper project was with the breakbeat/rock crossover group, Axcess. Initially just four guys getting together and putting out music that moved them. They released all their tracks as MP3 via the internet, which in 1998 was pretty unheard of. After a lengthy break from music Lloyd then started putting together mash up remixes of different tracks. The one that got noticed was Pink Pervert, a mix up of Pinks, Get this Party Started and Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Grooving with Mr. Pervert, which ex lead singer Martin Degville hears and got in touch. This lead to a 5 year partnership of releasing music under the name Sigue Sigue Sputnik Electronic. During this period Lloyd also started remixing and producing as the Fixionist. Returning back to his love of breakbeat music he released one EP, and a string of remixes for artists in the same genre. And in 2015 Lloyd joined the ranks of Massive Ego, and is responsible for the remix of I Idolize You, which has become the lead song on the bands upcoming EP, Noise in the Machine. Lloyd’s mix was the catalyst for the change in sound and direction of Massive Ego. 

Roland MC202
Roland TR707
Roland TR606
Roland TR8
Roland SH09
Roland G707 guitar synth
Boss DR-110
Korg MS20 mini

Photo: Marc Massive
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Scot's Collins very first keyboard was an old Casio with really small keys, although for a five year old it was perfect. He used to spend hours pressing all the buttons and driving his mum mad with the same noise time after time. During Secondary School, Scot discovered Cradle of Filth and was inspired to form a band. Martin Powell was his inspiration, so he was very disappointed when he left the band, causing him to look for other music inspirations, at which point he discovered Industrial. Nobody had heard of it, none of his friends liked it but Scot was instantly hooked. Scot then joined the School band and went on to perform  in several school productions using an old Korg Triton. Other bands were formed during this time and Scot’s first gig in an indie band, battle of the bands. Scot left the band he formed in School a year later as he wanted to be produce serious music, and over the coming years he appeared in several metal, and indie pop bands. During his years performing with live bands, Scot discovered Dance music. And it was the huge euphoric sounds that drew him in and off he went to a Hardcore Heaven rave. After this, Scot started learning how to produce dance music of his own. One of the things Scot loved to do live was put the keyboard (a Korg M3 at the time) through a guitar pedal and make it scream, whilst playing extremely fast noisy solos over the top. Whilst playing at the Barfly in Camden, London he noticed his fingers were actually bleeding during the gig, and on another occasion he caused the pitch bend stick to snap off. He sometimes refers to himself as a guitar player in a keyboard player’s body. Scot moved to a laptop setup after looking for something easier to carry around. He also wanted to create a heavy sound and tried to program guitar on Ableton Live but it just didn’t sound right, so he bought himself a Jackson guitar and learned some power chords to sample, which sounded so much better. After listening to the likes of Celldweller he became inspired to butcher and distort the clip of the guitar in unthinkable ways leading to some of the sounds he now creates with other instruments, such as snares. Scot has joined Massive Ego in 2015 where he can now make a lot of noise and turn it in to something amazing.
​scotcollins.com

Ableton Live
Macbook Pro
Novation SL 61 MK2
Novation Launchpad
Alesis Vortex Keytar
Jackson Guitar
Line 6 POD Guitar Pedal (For Keyboard Use)