WILLIAM HAYTER - Drums and Percussion
MARTIN GIMSON - Keyboards
RICK CULLEN - Bass
SAM SMITH - Guitar, Vocals
WITH INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE FROM THE GNOMES HELPERS:
Nuala O'Halpin - Backing Vocals
Lorraine Gimson - Backing Vocals
Alex Gimson - Backing Vocals and Keyboards
Andy Davies - Backing Vocals
Phil Barrett - Flute
Jeff Cummins - Illustration and Visuals
Carla Gimson - Photography
Maurice - Various rants and telephone conversation.
Influences
Many, including Pink Floyd, The Zombies, Caravan, The Nice and Soft Machine.
Sounds Like
All of the above, but with a slightly more modern production.
Here is our new single, released on 7 inch vinyl by those good folks at Fruits De Mer. The Zombies Care Of Cell 44 backed with Love Song With Flute by Caravan. To purchase a copy go to http://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/
The Flaming Gnomes are a Hertfordshire based band that was hastily put together in early 2007 by local musicians to record a version of Pink Floyd's Arnold Layne as part of an EMI / Myspace / David Gilmour competition. The prize was a day's recording at Abbey Road studios and a logo designed by Hipgnosis main man Storm Thorgerson. Sadly we didn't win but we had great fun recreating a fine piece of music.
Roll the clocks forward to Spring 2008 and an enquiry by Keith Jones of the Fruits De Mer label as to whether we could recreate that sound and produce a single for his label neccesitated the reconvening of the band. We went away and mulled over numerous choices of songs to cover and finally came up with Care Of Cell 44 by The Zombies and Love Song With Flute by the legendary Canterbury band Caravan. These songs are due to see the light of day in February 2009 on the Fruits De Mer label in 7 inch vinyl format.
Although we were not lucky enough to have Storm Thorgerson design our logo, we were very fortunate to have the next best thing in former Hipgnosis man Jeff Cummins do it instead. Jeff will be designing the record sleeve too and along with some loudly coloured vinyl, should make for a very interesting product and a very collectable record as we are told only 300 are being pressed.
As for the future, The Gnomes are now putting plans together for the follow up single. A re-mix of Arnold Layne to the one featured on this site, along with a re-working of Daddy Where Did I Come From by The Nice. This single will hopefully serve as a tribute to three great musicians whom we have lost in recent times, Syd, Rick and Blinky.
Once again the focus will be on putting The Flaming Gnomes stamp on these songs as we have with the others, rather than just produce straight copies. We hope that listeners will find something new in our versions and hope that we haven't offended any purists. We love these songs, which is why we have chosen to record them and hope that we have paid due respect to them. I am sure your opinions will tell us whether we have succeeded in that aim.
Thanks for listening.
THE FLAMING GNOMES.
To celebrate the release of The Flaming Gnomes first single, former Hipgnosis design artist Jeff Cummins has produced a limited edition print of the front cover. Jeff as one of Storm Thorgerson's team has designed many iconic album covers, with Paul Mc Cartney, Moody Blues, Ted Nugent, Pink Floyd, UFO, Whitesnake and Rainbow being just a few of the bands that Jeff has worked with. Among his other work, Jeff has produced the Dr. Who artwork for the various Target book covers. Look in at http://www.jeffcummins.com to see more of his work. There will only be 300 prints available, numbered and signed by Jeff. Each print retails for £20 which includes postage and packing.
To purchase a print simply send a message to us here with your e-mail address and we can send you the Paypal link, or purchase from Jeff directly at http://www.jeffcummins.com/shop.php or contact Jeff at info@jeffcummins.com
How are you, The Flaming Gnomes? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy holiday season & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo OK, that's it for the shameless self-promotion.Thanks for being a friend. adios for now! Pablo
HELLO, THANKS FOR THE CONNECTION, I SPENT A VERY GOOD TIME IN YOUR UNIVERSE MUSICAL; THANKS FOR THE ADD, I LIKE YOUR TRIP !!!!!!!!!µ GREAT SOUNDS, I LIKE YOUR WORK !!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE BEST. CHEERS. MOLECULE (paris)
Hi, thanks for adding ! You guys sound incredible, I really like your stuff. Nice playing, strong references, just my taste ! Moreover, I guess we have lots of musical influences in common... Best wishes from Tonton RRR
Flame on Gnomes, good to know ya. Syd would be gibbering to everyone from Dan Dare, to Arnold Lane to Lucifer Sam if he was here today to hear the sounds of your Interstellar Overdrive...gee that was a bit..Dark Globe. Or perhaps 'twas more of a Baby Lemonade favour...
Seriously, nice stuff, guys. All appologies for the above stupidity. Cheers. Ben.
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
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Hi everyone - Fruits de Mer's clearly web-illiterate older brother is in new residence at www.myspace.com/fruitsdemer while myspace do something odd with my usual site - please do me a big, big favour - call by, add me back in as a friend and save me days if not weeks of grief - thanks!
New CD: RIPE - THE DIXIE BEE-LINERS' highly anticipated sophomore release, produced by Bil VornDick (Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley) for Pinecastle Records, featuring the #1 single "Down on The Crooked Road."
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