John K. (Drums): I became a fan of U2 after hearing the "Joshua Tree" album and seeing U2 when they played the Lovetown tour in Dublin's Point Depot in 1989. I've been playing the drums since I was sixteen and started a band while still at school with Mark and Derek D. (My cousins), and soon after met Derek P. who became the lead singer. The band was called Exit, after the song on the Joshua Tree album, (later changed to Shifting Sands) and were together from 1990-1998.

In 2002 I began playing drums again briefly in another U2 tribute band and after that I spent some time in Germany playing open mike sessions with other musicians and joining an original German band called Psycho Cowboy. Returning home I played briefly with Mark accompanying him with his own material. In May 2004 I set up the "U2 Walk On" pub crawl and ran it through the summer months. The pub crawl is on hiatus during the Winter and will return next Summer ('06) with a name change. When the pub crawl was coming to a close both Derek P. and myself were thinking of starting a new U2 Tribute band and eventually joined forces... Thus VERTIGO was created.

For more info on John and his U2 Walk On pub crawl visit www.u2walkonline.com