Starting his career at the age of 12, Ash used to play various venues within Portsmouth to a moderate level of success with his own original compositions and style of singing. Starting off with an acoustic act, he started to crave a bigger stage and a bigger sound, leading him to join his first band. Spending the next couple of years going through various bands trying to find a style and group of musicians he felt comfortable with, he finally found his home band, Toxic Shock. After one practice, he was sold and finally had found that band he wanted to forge a career with.

Adam picked up his first guitar at the age of 16. Being completely self taught he found learning songs much more entertaining than spending hours learning techniques, this spurred him on to find a band to play these songs with. After spending a couple years touring the cover band circuit in the south of England he decided he wanted to write his own stuff. Forming his first originals band (Abraxas, where he met Jamie Bannon & Kris Walden) at the age of 18 he found local success came quickly, playing support slots with many professional bands such as Tesseract, Enochian Theory, The Light Divided and The Arusha Accord. Adam, along with Kris Walden & Jamie Bannon, found the heavy sound not to their style though and the band split after just 2 years. Adam started a progressive project with Ash Lyndhurst and Rory Kane. This stayed as a project though and after a while Jamie & Adam wanted to play a style more in tune with their musical preference. Toxic Shock was born.

Jamie otherwise known as (Bannon) by others started playing guitar at the age of 15 where his best friend Sam started teaching him which shortly after turned into them forming 8 Deadly Sins. After several months of realising this band name didn't work they then Regrouped and decided to rename the band "Amethyst" which then went on to become one of the most successful bands in the south of England at the time. After several years of time in the studio and touring the south of England "Amethyst" decided to call it a day, at which point Bannon went on to join "Days Of No Trust" then later quit to form "Abraxas" and "Fight or Die" All the while the genre getting progressively heavier and heavier until Adam & Bannon got together and discussed the musical direction in which they wanted to take, as they then went on to form the sexual splendour that is "TOXIC SHOCK"!

Playing bass since aged 13, JVB has played in an array of groups with varying musical styles. Self-taught for the first few years, JVB picked up bass lessons whilst in secondary school and has went on to attain a BTEC National Diploma in Music Performance and is currently studying the Higher National Diploma in Music Performance which will also lead on to a masters degree. Joord has been playing in bands (live and in the studio) and composing original material since aged 15 with bands such as H.A.L.O. (AKA The Van Dantes, Funk/Rock), Wood? The Monkey (Pop-Punk-Rock) and Void XIII (Electronica/Experimental). He currently spends his spare time producing and composing Dubstep, electronic music and experimental music with long-time collaborators Flynn (as .CO.CK) and with fellow guitarist Stanty (as Void XIII).