Ian Long: Bass guitar and vocals

Sharing his birthday with two of the Monkees, Tracey Ullman and Gordon Banks, it was inevitable that he would fail as a goalkeeper, comedian and musician.
On arrival in South East London, he founded 3 Strange Angels at Thames Poly and later You Pesky Kids. He also played bass for Hectic Brothers from 1989-91.
He has worked extensively in alternative entertainment (acting, stage management and T.I.E tours in the UK and Europe) including his own performance poetry routine ("The Sound of Fury") and as half of the comedy double act "Terry and Gary in..."
Returned to music in 2000 with 4 O'Clock Planes, having failed in his childhood career choice of conductor on the 310 bus from Hertford to Enfield Town.

Beau Howard: Drums

Beau plays the drums.

Neil Bowden: Rhythm guitar

Neil joined The Planes in 2006, taking up rhythm guitar
duties following the departure of Steve Howard.
A former member of PreDog (where he played bass),
Zen Dog (guitar), Electro Angst (keyboards and decks)
and The Gore Vidals (milk bottle),
Neil returned to the world of pop determined
to rock harder than ever before.
He cites his musical influences as anything with
a jolly tune and a nice lyric.

Jim Gibbard: Lead Guitar

Jim plays lead guitar.

Steve Howard: Rhythm guitar (departed 2006)

Steve and his half-brother Beau never agreed on anything until Beau's 1979 conviction for firearms offences.
By then Steve had served time in a couple of hot beat combos: the Idiots, Tone Deaf and the Idiots and the Warks. During this period he contributed to the seminal singles "Operation Julie" and "Repatriate the National Front", which are still collectors' items, and the album "Catastrophe Rock", which isn't.
While trying to interest his brother, during a prison visit, in his ambition to form a surf group with Keith Moon, he inadvertently sowed the idea in Beau's mind of a career in hitting things other than other people.
Soon after Steve had joined up with Keith Hawkins and Keith Ferris (Keith Moon having become unavailable) in Saint Keith, Beau became schlagzeugmeister as part of the terms of his parole.
Later, almost rehabilitated, he followed his more talented sibling into the 4 O'Clock Planes where, between gigs, he pursues his interest in tracking down people who owe him money.

Keith Hawkins : Lead guitar (departed 2010)

Founder member of South East London's punk/hardcore trio Pre-Dog (1987-91), Keith moved into more acoustic based rock with Saint Keith and the Big Picture (1997-2000) before co-founding the 4 O'Clock Planes with Ian in early 2000.
Travelling back to his original guitar landscape of Pere Ubu, Fire Engines, Slits, Stooges, Television, Voidoids, Contortions, Magazine, Meat Puppets, Pop Group, Patti Smith and P.I.L etc., Keith enjoys applying his passionate, high-energy playing to the songs of Ian Long.