Presence was a short-lived British New Wave band started by Gary Biddles, Lol Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey. Dempsey and Tolhurst were founding members of The Cure, and Biddles was a former Cure roadie who previously played in Fools Dance with Simon Gallup. In their brief existence, Presence released only one album, called Inside through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records.

In 1990, Dempsey, Tolhurst and Biddles were recording demos together with a view to forming a new band following Tolhurst's departure from The Cure. With the addition of keyboardist Chris Youdell (of Then Jerico) and drummer Alan Burgess the band emerged in 1991 as Presence with the singles, "In Wonder" and "All I See". Dempsey received co-writing credit for "Amazed"; the b-side of "All I See", but took a background role as a session bassist, and did not appear in the band's photos or press releases. Porl Thompson also made guest appearances on guitar for some of these recordings, but by 1992 both Dempsey and Thompson were officially replaced by bassist Roberto Soave (formerly of The Associates and Shelleyan Orphan) and guitarist Rob Steen respectively. However, Dempsey received co-writing credits for two tracks on Inside. Although Inside was well received by critics, the album was a commercial failure, and led to the dissolution of the band.

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Tim Hughes (born 23 July 1978) is a British worship leader and singer-songwriter. He is currently Director of Worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican church in central London, and heads up Worship Central, an international worship training and resource centre.

Hughes is the son of an Anglican vicar. He grew up in High Wycombe, later moving to Birmingham as a teenager, since his father was appointed vicar of St John's Church, Harborne. He also studied history at Sheffield University, graduating in 2000.

Hughes is married to Rachel. The couple have three children; Phoebe Joy (born 2 October 2007), Simeon John (born 28 February 2009) and Lois Jubilee (born 12 September 2010).^{[citation needed]}

Hughes began his career in the music industry in 1997, when he was asked by Mike Pilavachi to lead worship at the Soul Survivor festivals.^{[citation needed]} When Matt Redman left Soul Survivor, Hughes began serving on staff with Soul Survivor Watford Church, as their Worship Pastor.

In 2005, Hughes moved to Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican church in central London, where he serves the church as the Director of Worship. Hughes is also one of the members of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith from Delirious?.^{[citation needed]}