During 1986 I was playing bass guitar, with Steve Dyer on guitar and
vocals, Chrissie Jacobs on keyboards and vocals, with guest
appearances by David Bickley (keyboards), Ian Caple (sax) and Rob
Hawman (harmonica). These events happened alongside, and sometimes
shared, gigs or venues with my other commitment to Tom's Island.
By April 1987, I had acquired and started gigging with, Alison
Reynolds's old Manson fretless bass. This enabled a more fluid style
to emerge and worked well with the funky and laid-back feel that
developed within Steve and Chrissie's collective song writing. The
band had a pretty fluid line-up, starting life being called One. |
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By August the name Wyan had been launched, at the time of the
Harmonic Convergence party held at the village hall in Sancreed.
This was a massive gig involving Steve, Chrissie and myself, along
with David Bickley, Alison and Med Reynolds (now based near Lamorna),
the late Ian Caple, Rob Hawman and Tito (vocalist and percussionist
with Zambula), Hami Hocking, plus Ian and Seth from Tom's Island.
At one of the Wyan gigs at Sancreed Village Hall we did an impromptu
set under the name Spearing Fish using some sequences produced by
David Bickley (who played keyboards and saxophone live) and were
joined by Seth Marshall on the drums. |
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In the spring of 1988, Alan Burton joined us on synthesizer and
sampler keyboards, and later went on to establish an excellent
reputation for playing uillean pipes on the Monday night Celtic
music sessions at the Star Inn, St Just.
Women Don't Want To Be Blue
Steve Dyer is currently based in Totnes, Devon, studying performance
art at Dartington. Chrissie lives at Newlyn and produces relaxation
music. Alan Burton is at Bath, Somerset, working with the
Celtic-Hungarian band Fianna.
website link
Alan Burton / Fianna |
