After his first band ‘The Climbers’ in his hometown Alesund (Norway) broke up, Jan decided to hitch-hike to the capital Oslo, to find work. Being impossible in those days to hitch-hike in Norway with long hair, he walked the 600 km. It took him a month and a half.

He found work, first with ‘2nd Evolution Corps’, then ‘The Pussycats’, the most popular band in Norway at that time. He then joined ‘The Beatnicks’ for a few tours in Scandinavia. ‘The Beatnicks’ was also a very popular band, and had fans all over Scandinavia.

He decided to stay with this good band and it showed to be a clever decision. The band gave him the occasion to meet and play with musicians like Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Alvin Lee and many others. They finally left Scandinavia and stayed in Germany for a while, where they met Roy Robinson.

They went to France and signed up with CBS and became ‘TITANIC’, whose story you already know. When ‘TITANIC’ split up at the end of the seventies, he did a lot of studio-sessions in Paris and was asked to join ‘SPACE’, for their first tour in the Soviet-Union 1983. ‘SPACE’ was a french band who enjoyed a big hit with the instrumental ‘Magic Fly’.

‘SPACE’ was very popular there, due to Boris Volinov, an astronaut who had brought their cassette with him on a space-flight. Their third concert was being filmed by French television at the ‘Olympic Stadium’ in Moscow in front of 52’000 people, and Jan surprised the band as well as the Russians by launching into a rock’n’roll medley, 100% American, to end the show. Fortunately, no political consequences occurred all though Jan was probably, the first in the world to sing ‘rock’n’roll’ behind the wall.

After twenty years in Paris, he decided to leave the business and spend the rest of his life in the sun, down south on the French Riviera.

Impossible to stop playing, once a musician, always a musician, he started playing a little, jams and stuff. That’s how he met Mick Walker, an English musician, being there for the same reasons, and Phil Wilton. They soon got together as a band ending up in Geneva, where they met Didier Blum. They knew that Roy also felt, like Jan, that as ‘TITANIC’, they had a lot more to say, and so they called him.

This is more or less how ‘TITANIC’ came to be reformed.

In the late 60’s, Roy Robinson and his group left the UK to tour Scandinavia and Germany, he brought with him his unique Rock voice being born out of Blues, Rock and Folk.

It was a little later that Roy met up with the boys of a future new group called ‘The beatnicks’, who three weeks later changed the name to ‘TITANIC’, thus making him the last ‘Beatnick’.

The early 70’s saw ‘TITANIC’ rise to great fame, the groups percussive sound, great lyrics and amazing vocals, put ‘TITANIC’ on the no. 1 charts all around the world.

Roy’s last album with ‘TITANIC’ was recorded in Los Angeles in the 80’s.

Roy decided to stay in America and record with many artistes, like Phil Spector, Prairie League, Kim Carnes, Mike Picirillo etc. Collaborating also with Keith Emerson on different projects, and writing music for films, TV, and different medias.

In 2005, Roy got a phone call from Jan Loseth, inviting him over to Geneva for a week-end, to talk over the possibility of re-forming ‘TITANIC’.

Hailing from Bude, in North Cornwall multi-instrumentalist Mick Walker started his professional career in 1967, as co-founder and drummer, with the ‘Spirit of John Morgan’. He recorded three albums with John : ‘Spirit of John Morgan’ (1969), ‘Age Machine’ (1971), ‘Kaleidoscope’ (1972).

The band played regularly at ‘London’s ‘Marquee Club’, ‘Whisky A Go Go’, ‘Revolution’, and ‘Speakeasy’, playing alongside such bands as ‘Ten Years After’, ‘Jethro Tull’, ‘The Nice’, ‘John Mayall’ and ‘Mott the Hoople’ to name a few.

The band did many Europeen tours with the likes of Johnny Winter, and Graham Bond which included a memorable private party for R.K.O. Pictures at Madison Square Gardens, a T.V. spectacular at the Casino Montreux, and many steamy seasons at ‘Le Pappagayo’, St-Tropez, in the south of France.

Mick decided that he liked the south of France so much, he would live a quiet life by the sea. Then he met Jan Loseth and found himself ‘back on the road again’ !

As a young man growing up in Sydney Australia, Phil Wilton spent most of his spare time training for his chosen sport which was, curiously, short track ice speed skating. When he finally became Australian champion at the tender age of 20 he figured he’d ‘arrived’.

He then decided to focus his attention and same driving determination on making wild exciting noises on the saxophone. Since those days Phil has been a ‘Hired Gun’ in many different rock outfits including the legendary ‘John Morgan Band’ playing gigs all around the world.It was whilst playing with John at ‘Le Pappagayo’ St-Tropez, that he came across Mick Walker, and then later Jan Loseth.

They decided to put a band together called the ‘Jan Loseth Group’ and played regularly in Geneva. It was Phil’s idea to get in touch with Roy to find out if he’d be interested in going back on the road’ and now he’s making those wild exciting noises with ‘TITANIC’.

Born in Switzerland Didier Blum started his career playing with local bands.

In 1986, he went to Los Angeles to improve his musical skills.

Back in Switzerland in 1988, he started a long line of Studio sessions, and also found himself backing a large number of different artists on stage.

No-one was surprised to hear after a while that he was on tour somewhere abroad.

He did tours in Asia with the group ‘B.Connected’ including : China, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2005. South Korea : 2000 and Thailand : 2000-2004.

In 2005, Didier was invited to play a series of concerts with the ‘John Morgan Band’ where he met up with Jan Loseth and Phil Wilton, who were talking about the possibility of forming a new band to be called the ‘Jan Loseth Group’. Along with Mick Walker on bass, before Roy’s arrival, this was to be the nucleus of TITANIC.