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duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:22 am

It is a wall, but not brick.. This is from 1993, the band I was in Paley's Watch (Actually we were also Marc Catley and the Flaming Methodists, and Marianne Velvart Band as well at the same time - three bands in one!)

I'm the long haired bloke. The hair became a grade 3 all over (my head that is) in 1996.

Well, well...

DSP

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:23 am

btw, that intruder shot was just in a class of it's own...

DSP

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:43 am

duncanparsons wrote:
It is a wall, but not brick.. This is from 1993, the band I was in Paley's Watch (Actually we were also Marc Catley and the Flaming Methodists, and Marianne Velvart Band as well at the same time - three bands in one!)

I'm the long haired bloke. The hair became a grade 3 all over (my head that is) in 1996.

Well, well...

DSP

I still remember Paley's Watch getting a big article in some prog rock magazine - how was it going then?

(I'm not sure if I ever listened to your album though: I probably just thought 'that Magnum bloke trying to make proper music? - never!'

)

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:15 pm

jens wrote:

I still remember Paley's Watch getting a big article in some prog rock magazine - how was it going then?

(I'm not sure if I ever listened to your album though: I probably just thought 'that Magnum bloke trying to make proper music? - never!' )

Blimey! I didn't think anyone had heard of us - certainly no-one bought our album!

We did 'November' in 1994, which got a number of positive reviews, but sold like cold cakes. I'm a royalty if it ever breaks even - it cost £4000 to make, so I'm never going to see a royalty cheque!

I produced a demo for Marianne in 1995, which Marc took some exception to in the end, and Marianne left that summer. I continued to work with both of them ('cause I'm a tart). The demo got her a bunch of gigs at the Mean Fiddler, Garage, etc in London and eventually got her signed to Rick Wakeman's Hope label - tho' no album has ever appeared (she was signed in 1997...)

Marc and I continued working together until 1997. We had a variety of ideas of further Paley's albums, but I increasingly disagreed with some of the stuff he was writing for The Flaming Methodists, so I stopped. We are in infrequent contact. I believe he has recorded another album, but don't know what it is. You can visit his site here.

Some of the ideas I had for Paley's stuff lingered in my mind, and I've picked them up again over the last year or two, some of which I've posted in the music cafe.

If you really want to know more, I can say, but that'll do for now!

DSP

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:26 pm

hm - sad that you didn't have more success

- probably it really was the problem that Marc Catley sounds too much like Bob Catley

I should still have the magazine somewhere here - one of the people working for that mag then founded Inside Out and I'm sure you got a very good review...

WilliamK · Post by **WilliamK** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:27 pm

My turn.

That's me on the left...

That's me on the middle...

Wk

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:32 pm

duncanparsons wrote: Marc and I continued working together until 1997. We had a variety of ideas of further Paley's albums, but I increasingly disagreed with some of the stuff he was writing for The Flaming Methodists, so I stopped. We are in infrequent contact. I believe he has recorded another album, but don't know what it is. You can visit his site here.

after visting his site I remember again:

he did two albums with Geoff Mann

12th Night is one of my most favourite bands ever...

- on the other hand: all that christian stuff isn't exactly a big selling point, is it?

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:51 pm

- on the other hand: all that christian stuff isn't exactly a big selling point, is it?

Not even with the Christians!

Geoff died about a year after I started working with Marc. I never met him, but have a few of his albums - the tracks 'One of the Green Things' and 'Hello' are absolute classics!
We covered his 'certainly' on 'Mannerisms' the tribute album. There is The Geoff Man Website if you're interested!

If you still have that mag, I'd be interested in a scanned image if that's possible!!

DSP

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:52 pm

Nice piccys William! Guitar band was it?

DSP

WilliamK · Post by **WilliamK** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:55 pm

duncanparsons wrote:Nice piccys William! Guitar band was it? DSP

Nahhhh, pure techno band.

The top picture I was playing on a computer. P100 to be exact, running AXS. I was sequencing the song in real time. The other guy was playing samples on a TS10 keyboard. I made a custom PC keyboard with only the AXS sequencer MUTE keys.

The bottom picture I was playing the same computer, but with an older setup, and the guys where playing mainly simple stuff on theyre keyboards.

Wk

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:00 pm

duncanparsons wrote: If you still have that mag, I'd be interested in a scanned image if that's possible!!

DSP

I don't have a scanner
myself but it should be possible

My favourite Geoff Mann track is 'dance' (last track on 'loud symbols'

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:04 pm

I have some band photos..at least I know where one is. If I'm good, perhaps Paula will scan it for me tonight.

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:05 pm

Trashy punk band Heroes Of The Lonesome World circa 1979:

(me, 2nd from left)

And the obligatory brick wall shot, representing inner city urban decay.

(me 2nd from right)

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:17 pm

Trashy punk band

!!!

Looks rather like a south-american pan-pipe band of the ilk that hangs around Reading or Peterborough or Manc Picadilly Gdns every so often!

Good call!

DSP

Embarrassing band photos