(c’93-’98) Allan Broad (?), Jamie Legg (drums) Dee Coley (drums/bass) and Duncan Siggers (?).

Originally called The Hometown Boys the band rebranded to Eat the Sofa about the time that Coley, who’d previously been in His Wooden Fish, shifted from drums to bass and Legg, who’d previously been in Strange Cult, The Golden Age of Metro, Matrix, Ill At Ease, and Luxury Glass Town, joined the band. Broad fronted the various incarnations from ’93 until ’98. They were certainly playing the local circuit in ’93 through ’94, including regular appearances at The Cricketers, Westfield and appeared at the University of Surrey, Guildford as part of the Student Union’s All-Day Blues event on 19 November ’94, along with Sister Wendy, Wildwood, Winterfall, The Hamsters and The Bogus Brothers.

The band released two CD albums: “So Far So Good” and “Absolute Pondlife”. They played at the Guildford Folk & Blues Festival in Stoke Park, Guildford in ’94; and along with Vox Pop, they supported Manfred Mann (Manfreds at the time – due to a legal dispute!) at the Civic Hall, Guildford. In ’96 their track “Love My Life” appeared on “The Best Farnborough Groove in the World – Ever! Vol.6. Disbanding around ’98; three members of Eat The Sofa and Graham Firth formed Plenty, later becoming Panic, and then The True Deceivers.

Eat The Sofa reformed in 2004 playing a gig at Holloway Hill Sports Club, Godalming supported by Firth (also previously in His Wooden Fish ) and were gigging up to December 2006 when they played The Sun, Godalming supported by The Two Deceivers and Sigg & Si.

Coley moved on to Blazing Homesteads after Eat the Sofa and now lives in Wiltshire. He has since banded together with Legg and others in The True Deceivers. Broad got together with his brother Matthew, Lorraine Pankhurst and Stevie Ford in a local band project called Barefoot before relocating to Amsterdam in May ’99. In Amsterdam, Broad formed Broadsound with his brothers Matthew and Kevin, Daphne Broad, Rudy Kronfuss, and Derek Crump. He is still living and recording in Amsterdam and as a singer / songwriter has produced seven LPs with producer Rudy Kronfuss on Sirion Records. Unfortunately, Coley passed on 8 March ’22.

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29 August 1994: Eat The Sofa played Guildford Folk & Blues Festival in Stoke Park
Taken from University of Surrey Student Union, Bare Facts Newsletter Issue 800, 13 Jan 1994
Cover to Eat The Sofa’s CD “So FAr So Good”.
Bare Facts (Issue No.826, 18 Nov 1994) on the All Day Blues event held on 19 November 1994 featuring Sister Wendy, Wildwood, Winterfall, Eat The Sofa, The Hamsters and The Bogus Brothers.
In ’96 Ear The Sofa’s track “Love My Life” appeared on “The Best Farnborough Groove in the World – Ever! Vol. 6. Picture courtesy of Pete Cole.