(C’80) – Mr. Hutton (guitar/vocals), Andy Sharpe (bass/vocals), Ian White (guitar), John Byde (trumpet), and Ian Smith (drums)

Gap were a 5-piece student / teacher band that played at Highlands County Secondary School, Westfield in 1980. Mr. Hutton was a math teacher at the school and may have been the catalyst for the bands formation.

Sharpe was initially on trumpet, then switched to bass guitar, with Byde picking up the brass. Drummer Smith was also a trombonist in the school orchestra, The band are known to have performed “House of the Rising Sun” on which Sharpe took on lead vocals.

Gallery:

Gap performing at Highlands School. Westfield. Picture ‘courtesy’ of Russell Hutton