1961
Music
this is only just starting......more to come!
this is only just starting......more to come!
this is only just starting......more to come!
1 December 1976
Music
Bill Grundy interviews the Sex Pistols
Live TV and the Pistols - that was asking foru trouble, and Grundy did egg them on. This is when I decided I wanted to make music, that I could make music. But I did nothing for over two more years until I heard Throbbing Gristle - that made me decide I was going to make music.
21 January 1979
Music
Introduced to Industrial
After meeting the four members of Throbbing Gristle on Tottenham Court Road one Saturday when my friend Jim & I were on our way to Oxford Street for some recording shopping, we went to see them at Centro Iberico (21 January 1979). It was literally a life changing event for me.
3 August 1979
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Central YMCA, London
Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Rema-Rema. This was where I first met Raye. That meeting later led to us forming Third Door From the Left.
September 1979
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My First Band
Third Door From The Left was born after Jim Ross & I met Raye Coluori at the famed Central YMCA gig in August 1979.
Christmas 1979-80
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Weird Noise tour
Touring over Christmas 1979 into 1980 with a WASP synthesiser, playing in made-up or ad hoc line-ups connected with Fuck Off Records. The Entire Cosmos were among the bands on the tour, and I played with them one night.
I was originally going on the tour to video it, borrowing the camera from my college. When they found out what I was going to do with it, they said no. So I took my wasp and went anyway. It was a "free" tour - we travelled in a bus that I seem to remember cost £25 stayed in peoples flats, college dorms, whereever we could, it was incredible fun.
One night, along with Nag & Bendle from The Door and the Window, and others, we played improvised Christmas Carols.
One night, along with Nag & Bendle from The Door and the Window, and others, we played improvised Christmas Carols.
1981
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we be echo begins
The beginning of we be echo — an electronic music project originating in the period itself.
1989
Music
CD
we be echo's first CD release was on compilation called A Conclusion of Unresreained Philosophy - a Japanese label as I recall. (Liveevil label). It was also my first recorded use of the Fostex 4-track recorder, and the first time I used anothr musician - a guitar playing friend of my sisters.