1-6-90 "Arachnid" - Vince Earimal, Jim Plaistow, Neil Campbell
4-6-90 "Advent" - Richard Youngs, Stream Angel, JP, NC
13-7-90 "Anglegrinder" - Stewart Walden, JP, NC
28-7-90 "Awkward" - Neal Pates, VE, SW, SA, JP, NC
20-8-90 "Anusol" - David "Kostas D'Lary" Large, Andrew "not a typo" Fletcher, NP, RY, SW, VE, JP, NC
2-9-90 "Artex" - Niggle, Tim Barker, SA, VE, SW, JP, NC
28-9-90 "Agrippa" - Tricky, Paul Walker, Will Irvine, TB, SA, SW, JP, NC
6-10-90 "Alison" - Isabel Scott-Plummer, NP, SW, SA, JP, NC
3-11-90 "Airbomb" - Jon Lander, Sticky Foster, SW, JP, NC + 1
4-12-90 "Ack-Ack" - Simon Wickham-Smith, ISP, SF, WI, PW,TB, NP, SW, SA, RY, JP, NC
16-1-91 "Armageddon" - ISP, WI, SW, SA, NC + 2
28-1-91 "Anniversary" - TB, NP, VE, JP, NC + 3
1-3-91 "All Welcome" - Andrea Boden, Christine Smith, Sarah Attridge, Scorzonera, Neil "Lenty" Lent, TB, SA, VE
29-3-91 "A Lot" - Paul Clemens, Roger Caney, NL, S, AB, SF, ISP, TB, NP, SW, SA, RY, VE, JP, NC
31-3-91 (first studio session) - Mick Horton, SF, ISP, TB, NP (final appearance), SW, RY, SA, VE, JP, NC, (engineered by Niggle)
I'm bored now, but you get the idea.
Later members included Sharen Woodward, Norwegian Pete, Andy Williams, Jean-Emmanuel Dubious, Dave Higginson (of "who is Dave Higginson?" fame), Stewart Greenwood, Paula Rogers, Dylan Bates, Simon "Spacehopper" Crich, Jai Abbott, Morgan Caney, Helen Goldman, & various members of "Idiot Joy" & "Wholesome Fish"
Influences
finding things, losing things, borrowing things, throwing things away, sarcasm, that moment when you realise you've forgotten what you came in here for, cricket with fruit & veg, boredom & excitement, fan-letters from people we never heard of, bits of slate, Bainie, squeaky toys, cycling, trampled flowers, sellotape, cake, cardboard boxes, babies, Rolf Harris (pre-mid 70s), sneezing, bells, laughing, falling down the stairs, waiting for a bus, watching paint dry, eggs, creaking floorboards, being tickled, the sound of sausages, rusty farm machinery, tunes (help you breathe more easily), in-jokes, inertia, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, horsehair, bellybutton fluff, who can we annoy next?
Sounds Like
No idea. Try writing your own list, and then throw it out the window.
(quoted from The Wire magazine, September 2005 issue, page 38)
"The importance of The A-Band to the UK rock underground is commensurate with the explosive impact that groups like AMM, SME or The People Band had on the free jazz and Improv set. An ever-fluctuating group of artists, dole boys, punk conceptualists and record collectors, they were the first UK ensemble to anchor a free drone music in the muscle and scorchof the most high-energy rock, while keeping it as untutored as the most elemental folk."
on that same page, Richard Youngs says
"The A-Band started up because there was this guy, Vince Earimal, who was a saxophone player and wanted a backing band. Eventually it was formed and it began with the letter A. Then there was another concert and a different band was formed, again beginning with A. Then there was a third one and that's when I started showing up every so often in the line-up. [NOTE: Richard is wrong, his debut was the 2nd concert] It became this thing where there had to be a different line-up and each time it had to begin with the letter A. No one was there every time except possibly Jim Plaistow and Neil (Campbell) [NOTE: true for the first ten concerts, less so thereafter]. They were the only constant. It became a really fun thing to do, as it was always 100 per cent improvised and with no discussion. Just gonna do it. Jim was a joiner and he had a frame he had made from which he hung all these tools that he would hit. But aside from that there fairly limited instruments, so you had to play whatever was at hand. I mostly played guitar, a reed at one point, whatever.
...............We were a load of people in a room. The sound of that. Having said that, we all belonged to a rock generation, so that dictated how we played to a certain degree and maybe helped steer us into something new."
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
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"Avalonian" by Brian Lavelle "Avalonian" is an incredible work, following and adding to a tradition on this subject by artists, musicians, writers and great minds over many years. This cdr – limited to only 60 numbered copies – comes packaged in a white digipak, with handprinted front and back covers
The Zero Map "Found on the Streets" comes in an edition of 50 individually hand painted and numbered copies on cdr. The Zero Map "Found on the Streets" out now on apollolaan
Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
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Hi, above is my remix of the Enter Shikari song "No Sleep Tonight" (hit the play button...). This is for a remix competition, closing on 28th September. Please have a listen, and then vote for me!
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