Charles Evans, Chris Sidwell, Dave Francis, Gordon Francis, Peter Hulbert, Ray Fullard, Steve Mayo
c 1979 -
Single - Don't call us/ Orders from the C O - 1981 (source Rex Brough)
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They say of
their EP 'HUH'
'Huh?' was
like a lot of 'concept' albums in that it didn't really have a concept -at
least not then...
We'd been listening to a lot of our favourite records --not just music. We'd decided that we were going to make an album with links between the songs and try and make a complete body of work rather than just a collection of different songs as we'd done previously. This completely took us over for a year --and it was meant to be our masterpiece, although we were still learning the recording process... So we set up all of our musical equipment (plus a television and record player) in John O'Boil's 'Boiling Point' Studio and worked for several weeks in the summer of 1980 on the recordings that were to become 'Huh?'
Pete was
writing a lot of songs by now and one of his songs is pivotal to the album
('Superella'). He sang lead vocals on this for the first time and on another
song as well. I was still writing a lot of songs and also collaborating with
Pete and Gordon who was writing as well. So we had lots of songs and another
drummer called Joe but still no concept. It was only when I was compiling the
'Extinction 1979-82' CD that I realised just what the concept was and that we'd
not understood what we'd made with 'Huh?'
The project
was only finally completed with 'Little Russia' which was a song that I wrote
the year after we'd finished 'Huh?' but sums up the album's concept. The
'ThreeE.P.' tracks from the same period also dovetail nicely into the work.
We'd all been living through the horrors of Mrs. Thatcher's 1980's Britain.
These were oppressive, depressing, hopeless times when people's only escape was
through the screen of a television, a disc on the record player or the
intervention of a super hero maybe ...this was a job for 'Superella' though we,
now know, that 'she' never came...
Cassettes by the Digital Dinosaurs: Earpop, New Needles, The Bedroom Tapes, Final Touch, Three.E.P., The Hit Singles Collection, It's Another Fine Mess from the Digital Dinosaurs, When Again Men?...and Huh?:
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