Barry Skeels

Became bassist for ZIOR in 1970, releasing 2 albums & 3 singles and  MONUMENT, 1 album. After leaving Zior, he ceased playing for a while and started a stage lighting company with a contract to the Radio Caroline Road Shows working around the southeast of England and with local music venues. He later formed a band called Mongrel, who had Steve Rosenthal, ex IF, band member on guitar and Chris Rose, from Drewett & Skeels early days also on guitar. Later the three went on to joined Southend blues band White Line Fever, when this band broke up, Chris & Barry went on to join Canvey Island punk rock outfit Gypsy Rock Squad, playing  the Oil City Festival on Canvey with locals Doctor Feelgood & Eddie & the Hot Rods. Barry went on to form yet another band Gypsy in Basildon playing in & around London & Essex before moving north.

He moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1984, and going full circle joined local blues band The BLUES BURGLARS, who’s members included Paul Lamb (harmonica) & Johnny Whitehill (guitar) they later went on to form Paul Lamb & the King Snakes. He stayed with the Burglars for a year when he left to become Venom’s bass tech. Barry later became tour manager for various bands like Venom, Skyclad, My Dying Bride, Count Raven & Anathema doing many European tours and Venom in the USA, he also worked along side bands like Yngwie Malmsteen, Saxon, Paradise Lost & Manowar & guitar teched for Rage, Love / Hate, Trouble, Rock Goddess & Samson (Bruce Dickinsons old band before joining Iron Maiden). In 2000 / 2001, Barry was A&R for Demolition Records home to Twisted Sister, WASP & Therapy and between 2002 / 2011 started his own management company Offbeat Management. During this time Barry managed Skyclad (Scarlet Records), Undergroove (President Records) & Lee Rogers (Zenith Cafe Records).

In 2003 his services were called for and he was asked to tour manage a short UK tour for Demolition Records, aptly named Demolition ‘Xmas’ Ball which had The Quireboys as headliners, special guests Skyclad and support from Antiproduct.  Barry, back on bass, more for the love of playing, later joined Newcastle based soul band The Soulutions, then an ambient funk band Ambience UK but now concentrates on his current rock band the ROAD RUNNERS and still resides in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Steven Drewett  

A few months after Iron Maiden disbanded in 1970, Steven Drewett secured a job at the Natural History Museum as a Modeller/Sculptor. It was while he was working at the Museum that various freelance opportunities – to make models for advertising and the movie industry – came his way, which sparked a new interest in film and TV production.  He began a part-time course in TV set design and, in 1974, he joined a training scheme in the BBC Television’s Visual Effects Department which was the beginning of a design career there lasting for eleven years. His Visual Effects Designer credits include The Day of the Triffids, Tripods, Dr Who, The Great Palace, Blake’s Seven (Second series), Richard Leakeys The Making of Mankind and many more.

Freelance work brought in extra opportunities and he created models and props for a number of feature films including Terry Gilliam’s Jaberwocky and Time Bandits, and a film of Tarka, The Otter.

The BBC’s Effects Department had its own film studio and Steven began to direct more and more film sequences. Being accepted on to one of the BBC’s sought-after film director’s courses, made a short film and this was good enough to get him a job making a commercial for Chessington World of Adventures, which won the Advertising Creative Circle Award for Best Newcomer. In 1985, Steven left the BBC to become a Film Director, making advertising commercials. Over the next few years, he made hundreds of films for an impressive list of clients including Whitbread Beers, Irn Bru, Nestlé, Ford, Philips, Mobil Oil, Mail on Sunday, Milk Marketing, etc.

In 1990, he took time out to work on David Putnam’s feature film Memphis Belle, filming special effects and later working in the editing department coordinating the optical material. Disenchanted with this experience of the film industry, Steven Drewett then returned to commercials, working for clients in Scotland and Europe. Eventually he set up his own production company, Antennae, in London. He went on to broaden the scope his of work with training, industrial and promotional films, music videos, etc. for clients such as Imagination and Ford.  From 2007 onwards, he began to concentrate on portrait sculpture and photography. He has shown his work at The Gallery in Cork Street, London with the Portrait Sculptors Society, and exhibited photographs in a number of UK venues. Photographs commissioned by Somerset Wildlife Trust were published in his book Selwood: a mediaeval hunting forest . He continues to make nature films and has recently made eight short films to promote the re-release of the original Iron Maiden’s album Maiden Voyage. (YouTube: Steven Drewett The Original Iron Maiden.). He lives and works in Wiltshire.

Trevor Thoms

Also known as Judge Trev Thoms and Judge Trev, was a guitarist, best known for being a member of Inner City Unit and The Steve Gibbons Band. He later played in the seminal British blues boom band, Spirit of John Morgan. He has backed such luminaries as Graham Bond, Gregory Isaacs, Steve Gibbons and was a member of Steve Peregrin Took's band, Steve Took's Horns with Dino Ferari on drums.

In the late 1970s both Thoms and Ferari joined ex-Hawkwind's Nik Turner in Inner City Unit. Thoms also worked with Turner and Twink under the hybrid Pink Fairies/Hawkwind name Pinkwind. He later formed Atomgods and has worked with other ex-Hawkwind members including Ron Tree. He and Ferari formed their own version of Inner City Unit called Judge Trev's Inner City Unit. A regular 'collaborator' he also played with the revived Pinkwind featuring Nik Turner & Twink (ex Pink Fairies) and after moving to Brighton regularly appeared with Slim Tim Slide (Tim Rundall) sometimes under the pseudonym "Stinky & Stumpy", a partnership that continued sporadically for the rest of Thoms' life.

He played festivals such as the Big Green Gathering, Cosmic Puffin Festival, Glastonbury, Earthwise etc., performing his solo acoustic set or with the reformed Inner City Unit with Nik Turner. He also played gigs as Trev and Kev with Kev Ellis, singer from Bubbledubble. He also ran the website Real Festival Music where he also wrote festival reviews, he was active in forming The Real Music Club in Brighton and indeed his last ever gig was at a RMC event to celebrate his birthday, and his last recordings were with fellow RMC members Paradise 9. With the aim of promoting local talent as well as providing an outlet for his own work the club continues both live and on radio and annual Trev Memorial gigs are ongoing.

Thoms died on 8 December 2010 from pancreatic cancer.

Paul Reynolds

During the late 1970s Paul was in a local Basildon band Skint, who just happened to have Dave Bronze (Clapton, Tom Jones, Robin Trower) on bass and in 1982 Paul became the drummer for The PINKEES, a pop/rock group from Basildon. They had a No.8 chart hit with Danger Games, as well as 3 other charted singles and an album. Paul wrote the track 'Rocking with the Band' on this album and B side of  Holding Me Tight their third single. They toured the UK & Europe and appeared on Top of the Pops (twice), Pebble Mill at One, Saturday Superstore and Radio 1 (in concert) and had Danger Games on a compilation album for K Tel, that went platinum. Paul is now an artist/illustrator and designer living in Essex and still plays regularly. He has played The Cambridge Rock Festival (three times) Colne R&B Festival and Upton-upon-Severn Blues Weekender.

Since Iron Maiden folded in July 1970, the four main members of the band have gone on to greater things. As you can read below each band member has carried on in the music & creative business. You can find out more if you go to the links page and click on any of the links.