FRANK FISH: Vocals, guitar.
MICK CLACK: Guitars, bass, keyboards, obsessive editing.
With help from:
PAUL GIBBON: Keyboards, backing vocals.
DALE MARSHALL: Drums.
PERRY SMITH: Shrieking.
SARAH REEVE: Backing Vocals.
ANDRE VAN SOLINGE: Guitar.
ROSE KEMP: Vocals.
4 NIGE and TREV songs are featured on the Rooftop Studio Compilation CD
'A Few Loose Tiles'. Click on this itunes button to download them:
Influences
Captain Beefheart, Patto, Frank Zappa, Beatles, Johnny Winter, The Blue Nile, The Marx Brothers, Tommy Cooper, Lord Buckley, Aretha Franklin, Derek Trucks, John Otway, Mark Eitzel, Jimi Hendrix, Morecambe and Wise, Alan Shearer. The Nolan Sisters, The Andrews Sisters, The Beverley Sisters, Billy Butlin, Miles Davis, Hawkwind, Adrian Belew, Raymond Carver, Flann O'Brien, Kevin Coyne, Steve Earle, Norman Wisdom, Kryon...
NIGE and TREV are a ranting, grooving, shrieking, psychedelic, experiMENTAL, soup hurling,pendulum obsessed jazz/rock/blues/classical/comedy/funk duo
who have a passionate devil-may-
care, 'no-holds-barred' approach to music resulting in a rapturous hotch potch of euphoric whistling funk-folk pandemonium peppered with fevered bursts of whammy bar werewolf gibberish reminiscent of Captain Beefheart and the great Lord Buckley with distant echoes of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. Mick 'Trev' Clack's battered Stratocasters wail and howl relentlessly at the three moons of Planet Klennaar carving out a ricketty balsa wood platform for Frank 'Nige' Fish's reckless, unstoppable, scatterbrained Hammer-Horror love sermons. He talks in tongues, he yelps, he growls, he plays guitar upside down, he yodels, he bellows, he serenades, he lectures and sometimes he even sings....here is a short piece of video footage of Mr. Fish reading one of Mr. Clack's hastily scribbled stories:
Click on the 'play' button below to see a snippet of NIGE & TREV performing 'Catfish Blues' in the Old Bookbinders in Jericho, Oxford on December 27th 2007:
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You chaps sound mentally deranged. Well done, keep it up.
I don't know if there's something in the water round these parts that produces eccentrics like Twizz Twangle, Barry and the Beachcombers and Mark Barnes but I like it whatever it is.