Max Lilley

Backline Technician / Musician

A 29-year old backline technician, musician, creative from Oxfordshire, living in Yorkshire since 2015. I have a huge passion for instruments, and creating and playing music, spending a lot of my teens and twenties trying to find a way in through multiple avenues. With a keen mind for running as well and having spent the last two years sober, I have learned a lot about myself and my job and what I want to achieve through all of it.

A Puddle of Otters Touring Ltd is a company that works in live music across a plethora of jobs. Full backline technician, tour management, advancing, home rig builds, instrument set ups and maintenance, MIDI mapping etc. with clients including Bloc Party, The Last Dinner Party, Florence Road, Everything Everything, Blossoms, and Hot Chip.

A Happy Salmon is a collaborative collective project based in Leeds. Taking influence from a range of artists including Death Cab For Cutie, Radiohead, Coldplay, Bon Iver, Perfume Genius, and American Football. Over 30 people have contributed to this project in a host of different ways making the music a beautifully dynamic sonic palette that acts as an honest, hazy embrace creating ethereal pop songs with a prog mentality.