But there was a band of blue sky just above the gray, the blue you see in tropical postcards, the blue of the Mediterranean.

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"We like to think of our sound as fairly unique, " laughs David Gray, a music teacher, one of the four members of the Yelverton-based band.

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"We re not a band of one guy and a bunch of others standing around making him look good, " says Tom Gray.

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