Age of Mirrors

Websites:  https://bobbryden.bandcamp.com/album/mirage-1985-age-of-mirrors-featuring-bob-bryden-aka-simon-de-beaupre-michael-guild-neil-bishop-the-ultimate-edition-remastered-with-bonus-tracks
Origin: Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Biography:

As Benzene Jag began to wind down as a band, drummer Dave Jones (AKA Michael Allen Guild), his long-time buddy Neil Bishop began to experiment with recording some of their electro-pop pieces. I came aboard and wrote concepts, lyrics and vocal melodies on top of their compositions. The result was the first Age of Mirrors album, 'Mirage', which was released at the end of August, 1985 and received considerable attention locally. Alternative radio station CFNY played tracks quite regularly and one track was even adopted as a theme for one of their regular radio programs. For fun, we decided to present ourselves mysteriously as some 'big hair' band - possibly from Europe, so we gave ourselves pseudonyms. I was Simon De Beaupre and Dave was Michael Allen Guild. Another reason for this was that we wanted to distance ourselves from past releases so as not to be pigeonholed.

Michael Allen Guild [aka Dave Jones]: drums, bass
Simon De Beaupre [aka Bob Bryden]: vocals
Neil Bishop: guitar
Mike Hampson: guitar (replaced Bishop)
Michael A. Bradshaw: keyboards