Al played guitar. Dave played keyboards. Gav played bass. Jezz played drums
Influences
Black Flag, Lenny Bruce, Marvin Gaye, AC/DC, Sly & Robbie,Pavement, Deep Purple, Palace Music, Shellac, Spacemen 3, The Fall, Neil Diamond, The Bronx, Low, The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, Magoo, Slayer, GSYBE, Mogwai, Tortoise, Labradford, Pan American, For Carnation, Fugazi, Movietone, Philip Glass, Brian Eno
Sounds Like
Black Flag, Lenny Bruce, Marvin Gaye, AC/DC, Sly & Robbie,Pavement, Deep Purple, Palace Music, Shellac, Spacemen 3, The Fall, Neil Diamond, The Bronx, Low, The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, Magoo, Slayer, GSYBE, Mogwai, Tortoise, Labradford, Pan American, For Carnation, Fugazi, Movietone, Philip Glass, Brian Eno
This page stands as a testament to the late Al Brooker 1976-2000
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I set up this page as I just happened to chance across some of the recordings whilst at work one day and I thought it’s a shame that if people were into the band they now have no way of getting hold of the releases anymore as both have been effectively deleted.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I thought that it would be an easy way to distribute all the music (13 recorded tracks and some demos’) over a period of time. And if people really wanted the originals I could also send them CDR’s in the post.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards Gav
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Gwei-lo formed in 1997. We recorded the first debut EP for the WSM label in March 1998. 4 tracks, 25 minutes in length Track list: Live And Eat Pie, Morphies, Micro Dot Village Shop and Ditty. WSM folded around October of 1999.
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We then recorded a mini album for Bella Union in the winter months of 1999. 7 tracks, 40 minutes in length. Track list: U.R.R , 12 , Cellsong, Annoy, Homework, Corona, Don't Try (Hank)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Al, our guitarist died unexpectedly onstage a mere month before the release of this album. http://www.bellaunion.com/artist.php?artcode=albrooker
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The Miracle, a Bukowski poem taken from the 1969 book 'The days run away
like wild horses over the hills'.
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To work with an art form
does not mean to
screw off like a tapeworm
with his belly full,
nor does it justify grandeur
or greed, nor at all times
seriousness, but I would guess
that it calls upon the best men
at their best times,
and when they die
and something else does not,
we have seen the miracle of immortality:
men arrived as men,
departed as gods-
gods we knew were here,
gods that now let us go on
when all else says stop.
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Ciarafest 12 - Sat, Dec 6th, The Portland Arms, Cambridge
The Cathode Ray Syndrome*, The Tupolev Ghost, We Rock Like Girls Don't and The Last Dinosaur
Four great bands for just £6, all of which is going to the charity Premrose to raise money for The Rosie Maternity Ward at Addenbrooke's Hospital. We Got Tickets takes no profit (just a little for costs) from the sale of these tickets - bloody good on 'em we say. Get there early.
