Neale Harmer - Guitar & Vocals; Mark Cohen - Guitar & Vocals; Rob Felstead - Bass Guitar; Steve Goodridge - Drums
Influences
60s, 70s, Punk, New Wave, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Clash, The Jam, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, The Pixies, Hoods Yeah Right!, No Geraniums, The Smiths, REM, Apricot Records, Brideshead, Daryll-Ann, The Shining Hour, & hundreds of others.
In the late 80s, Neale Harmer, fresh from the demise of Hoods Yeah Right! and No Geraniums decided he wanted to record some of his own songs. Spurred on by the use of a four track portastudio and drum machine Neale put out his own cassette albums under the name of Fragile beginning with "Autumn" in 1988.
In the early 90s Neale put together a band with former Hoods and Geraniums drummer, Steve Goodridge, former Beat Circus singer and guitarist Mark Cohen and bass player Rob Felstead. In 1994 they played their debut gig as Fragile and the following year recorded "Pass Me By" and "Don't Turn Away". These songs were eventually heard by Germany's foremost indie pop label Apricot and were released on the fabulous compliation "Airpop" in 1998. Fragile also released a 4 song limited edition 7" single on Apricot Records which sold out fast. Following on from this the band completed their own full length CD, "Norwegian Jazz".
Neale has continues to record songs under the Fragile name.
This video was recorded at our debut gig on 13.03.94 at Worthing's Inn On The Prom. The pub was dark, we wore black but our sonic jangleness scythed through the murk... or something! The song featured was the first in the set and is titled "I'm Not Here To Make You Happy" or known affectionately by the band as "Shut Yer Face"!
Series Two Records released a new 4 CD compilation album. Read more information here Full Tracklisting Includes 98 different artists from all over the world including USA, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Costa Rica, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Peru, Spain, Malaysia, Latvia, Mexico, Philippines, Japan, and Russia.
Hey, I've had alot of people asking me about whether or not I had a mailing list. I have put one up there today that will put you on my list of The Weak Need email updates that I send out. Yes you can unsubscribe from the list as well.
I'll send out an update every few weeks or so. I will also send out snippits of thing's I've just written that no one else has heard yet.
The option is there anyway.
Take care.
Sean (The Weak Need)
PS I have posted a new blog where you can vote on the radio leadoff single.
Just thought I'd touch base with everyone to let you know that I've uploaded a new mix of "Lay Me Down" (Still in demo form) This was the song that won me my first international songwriting top five finalist award.
I will be recording the drums with Jim Boudreau in a couple weeks and acoustic guitar around the same time. I'm also blown away that Bob Egan From Blue Rodeo has said he would play acoustic guitar on the track for me and I am so honored as I am a huge fan of the group.
