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accepts no responsibility for imagery contained within or any grammatical errors. For those
that are interested - here is a link to piccies of Andy's drum kit
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Alternative Garage music, based on live recordings of cheap samples and toilet humour.
Remember when keyboards with sampling on-board became available for a low price?
Well that sums up all of the Heavy Sosij music. Later developments including poetry,
video and more evolved music created by sampling other people's work. A fun band of
16 year olds experimenting.
Members - Mathew Kitching, Stuart Ingleby, Phillip Glanville,
Andrew Hubble and other guests.
Most notable achievement - Feature length video of a dog's anus.
If this video is ever found, please destroy on sight.
Alternative Garage music, but this time using instruments, based loosely on
Tangerine Dream and John Fox. A development from Heavy Sosij, Pointy Finger was
another experimental band producing music from whatever came to hand, instruments
or furniture, pets or plumbing, there really seemed to be no need to make a
distinction. Poetry and video played a major role in the creative process here also.
Goth Rock (very Fields of the Nephilim). First serious band. A group of social
misfits and degenerates. Lasting only a few months I was unceremoniously booted out
for various reasons, one of which had to be that I wasn't very good, in fact I
stank, in retrospect I am surprised they put up with me as long as they did, but then
you hadn't met the rest of the band.
New Wave, Punk, Alternative (Stiff Little Finger). First seriously gigging band.
Lots of energy and enthusiasm, shame about the talent. Although the music was good
and the reception growing by the gig, this was the first band I quit from. I quit
because of "band differences" I just didn't like the direction we had
started moving in, more new wave and less punk.
70's & 80's Rock cover band. Joined for two gigs after working with a mutual
friend. After a few rehearsals the second gig was a disaster, an L-shaped stage left
us all listening to different members of the band and seemingly no one playing the
same music. Plus the tragic intervention of a pitch shifter which Mike (boxing
glove) Douglas seemed unable to avoid, put paid to any ideas of future gigs.
(Webmaster Note - didn't seem to have same problem with Catherine Zeta
Jones).
Modern Alternative Rock. Bizarrely this grew from the disastrous one off of the
Love Commandos (Mk 2), Ken Bearman dragged me and a few other refugees from justice
into a small back room of a rehearsal studio, and announced we would all be starting
a band together. Shun did a lot of original work, plus a plethora of covers dragged
straight from the Love Commandos set. We held it all together well, but gigged
rarely and infrequently, a tradition I'm proud to say I continue to this day,
unfortunately this inevitably led to the "What exactly is the point" break up
of the band.
Rock, Grunge Alternative. After Shun dissolved, there was a desire to gig, new
material had been written, applause had been heard, and rotten fruit had not been
thrown. To this end, the Love Commandos were reformed by trawling the depths for
those long forgotten members. The final line up played 80's & 90's Rock
covers expanding into grunge, alternative, indie and punk, with only mild resistance.
The whole objective was to gig, to get out there and play. I think we played three
gigs in our first two years together. But this is all set to change, with our own
material in the pipeline and a new found enthusiasm, somewhere, we will play at least
a gig a month, or two. And for aging rockers like us, that ain't bad.
Techno Industrial Grunge. Looking for an outlet for my more creative and aggressive
side I began working on a solo stage show, finding advice on electronic music from
some long time friends (Tin Omen) who at the time were using a drum machine.
They asked me to join them, replacing their drum machine (victory to the human),
laying down their drum lines. After working together for some months and performing
live together, we all realised that I was changing their music from Techno Industrial
to Techno Thrash. I still co-write their drum lines and percussion section, but they
now take full artistic control and we're all much happier for it.