Formed from the debris of various festival/ squat/ protest bands such as Triptych, Sunsnake, Headjam, Whip the Minister, East of Ealing and eurometalists Orpheus; Pnevma formed in the Autumn of 2002. Craig High on vocals and all manner of wind, brass, and stuff; John Pink on guitar, Chris Cosmos on drums and Kostas Marakis on bass. They quickly got a strong Space Metal set together & proceeded to play a select few venues. Apart from the normal benefit gigs (Mad Pride being favorite) they played support to Ghost of the Robot at The Garage in London & twice in The Scala (also in London) in 2003, GOTR are the music project of James Marsters (Spike from Buffy). A strange experience for everyone involved; we could easily get used to playing good venues, with good sound and light crews, packed with near hysterical women, but not used to corporate control. Craig managed to et thrown out of the last of these gigs, thankfully after the set. Apart from this brush with global notoriety Pnevma have played two parties in West Wales. The first was an all-night fortieth birthday party for Carrot of The 24 Carrot sound system in one of the organisation's marquees in 2003. The other was at The Blue Rock Free Festival in Llanfyrnach in 2004, at this festival they had Steve Baker {Triptych & Whip The Minister} guesting on guitar. Although gigging infrequently until 2006 Pnevma released a studio CD in 2003 the "black" album & a second one in 2006, the "Blue" album. Numerous live recordings exist & hours & hours of film archive has been caught. All the music is written by whoever has to play it, and the lyrics have been written by Craig, John & Kostas. 2006 also saw a brief project with Nick, a Theatrical Director of Greek origins, with a recording at Alchemea, resulting in the Too Many Greeks EP. The final line-up featured Leon on vocals and guitar, and only two recordings survived- "the Leon Intervention". Steve Baker, Jason Foster and John's alter ego the Headmaster took charge of mixing at various times.