to new possibilities and gave me, as a guitarist, a greater
awareness and understanding of electronic music.
Paul Hyland and I began a period of more productive writing in early
1982 and were soon joined by Noel Taylor (clarinet and piano),
followed by Erik Moore (guitar, fretless bass guitar) and a french
horn player from Iceland named Polly. Once we had the ball rolling
and sufficient material, Oliver Cheesman joined us on drums and we
began to get the whole shape of the music into focus.
This became Sheep In Fog, the name chosen randomly from a book
of collected poems (one by Sylvia Plath) plucked from a bookcase. |
|
The band ranged in number from the basic original five members, to a
maximum of nine, playing a vast assortment of instruments (see Gig
List for details).
The style was different to what I had previously worked with, a mix
of jazz flavoured rock which could suddenly drop into bizarre spells
of discordant anarchy, or lock into unusual cycles of rhythmic
trance.
We played many gigs throughout 1982 but decided collectively to
bring it to a close when Oliver Cheesman moved to Glasgow to begin
working for Scottish Television on the Taggart detective series.
Caught In The Red |
|
 |
