Adrian Francis Utley (born 27 April 1957) is an English musician and a member of the band Portishead.

Born in Northampton, Utley is self-taught on guitar, bass and keyboards, and played professionally from the age of 18 in working men's clubs, night clubs, holiday camps, and in cabaret, backing soul artists. During the 1980s he played jazz and R&B; then, in the early 1990s, his interest in electronics, recording and production, led him to join Portishead.

His production work includes Portishead, The Coral's third album The Invisible Invasion, Joe Volk, Beth Gibbons and Kevin Flanagan.

His film work includes:

William Owen Gregory (Born 17 September 1959 in Bristol) is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer. In the 1980s and 1990s he performed with artists including Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel, The Cure as well as fellow Bristolians Portishead, along with playing oboe for Tori Amos and recording with Paula Rae Gibson. In 1999, vocalist Alison Goldfrapp and Gregory formed the group Goldfrapp, a collaboration that has led to international critical and commercial success on the music charts.

Will Gregory is also a saxophonist. He has played with the Apollo Saxophone Quartet, Spiritualized, Michael Nyman and as part of the saxophone section of the London Sinfonietta for the 1991 production of John Adams's opera Nixon in China in Paris. He is credited on Portishead's album Third for the tracks Magic Doors and Threads.

Piotr Orzechowski (b. Piotr Orzechowski, October 31, 1990, Kraków) is a Polish jazz pianist and a composer, known also under nickname Pianohooligan.

Finalist and winner of the most renowned Polish jazz competitions like "Jazz Juniors", "Jazz nad Odrą", "Krokus Jazz". He is also a winner of the two best known competitions in Europe - "Montreux Jazz Piano Competition" and "Jazz Hoeilaart". He was three times awarded scholarship by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for the most talented students. Considered one of the most interesting performers of young generation in Poland.

He has worked with such artists and groups as Adrian Utley from Portishead, Jacek Kochan, Paweł Mykietyn, Sławek Jaskułke, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Adam Bałdych, and others...

Recorded solo album titled PIANOHOOLIGAN which is a set of a classical repertoire and his compositions.

Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( /ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass.

His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.

Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described, in The Guardian by music critic Andrew Clements, as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer."

Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: Jeanne d'Arc,IPA: [ʒan daʁk]; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431), is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII of France. She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of "insubordination and heterodoxy," and was burned at the stake for heresy when she was only 19 years old.

Twenty-five years after her execution, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France. Joan said that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.