Ian Gravell started playing the guitar at the age of 5 years old. Influenced very much by the music of the time, by the age of 12, he was studying Jazz & Blues techniques under the legendary Welsh Jazz guitarist, Jack Laycock.

In 1981 Grav formed punk band Society with Marcus Howells on vocals.
After a six-month residency in the local nightclub, Society slipped, unrecorded, into the mists of time, becoming the grandfather of the neo-punk scene in the Welsh Valleys and spawning
Dead On Arrival and Foreign Legion in its wake.

By 1982, and without a band, he started on his solo work around the seedier bars and clubs of the valleys until 1984 when he got involved with an American religious cult (absolutely nothing at all to do with The Family or Children Of God), where he met his future wife, and was asked to join christian rock band Majesty.

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