Career
He also plays guitar, melodica and piano. His main influences are Kraftwerk, hip-hop, Can, various electro bands and Crass. Despite being a self-confessed dance music fan, he also admits to liking heavy rock bands such as Marilyn Manson.
The strange noises produced by Griffiths" keyboards (contrary to rumours, he does not use a Theremin) are one of the trademarks of Space"s sound.
Unlike his other bandmates, Griffiths has never performed lead vocals on a Space track, with one exception - "I Am Unlike A Lifeform You"ve Ever Met", a B-side on the "Avenging Angels" single. However, on the first two Space albums, Spiders and Tin Planet, as well as the B-sides of various singles, he has contributed instrumental tracks.
Griffiths also used to be in a band called BlackBerry And Maine. In the late 1980s, he left England for Spain, where he worked as a bouncer in Malgrat de March, Barcelona, and often went clubbing in Ibiza.
On his return to Liverpool, he was handed an empty cigarette packet with Scott"s telephone number written on it, and the request that he help the nascent Space record a demo.
Naturally curious, Griffiths dialled the number. Along with Scott, Griffiths is one of the two original members in the most recent Space line-up. As with his bandmates, the stress of touring America in 1997 minus guitarist Jamie Murphy - with whom Griffiths seems to have a love/hate relationship - took its toll on the keyboardist.
He came down with a particularly nasty case of stomach ulcers, as well as succumbing to tonsillitis on Space"s second United States. tour with Murphy.
On one of the American tours in 1997, Griffiths and his bandmates visited Mike Myers" house after "Female Of The Species" featured in Austin Powers: International Manitoba Of Mystery. After Space split in 2005, Griffiths made R"n"B music under the name Subway Showdown.
He also played alongside Murphy in Dust, before Space"s reunion in 2011. Outside Space, he has remixed other bands.
Griffiths has used the following synths when touring and recording with Space:
Access Virus TI
Roland A-37
Roland Justice of the Peace-8000
Roland Juno-60
Various Moog synths
Novation Nocturn.