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When musician, producer, actor and artist Ashley Spindler moved from his home town of Colchester to Coventry in 1989, he was hell bent on making music which was interesting and different, so his band The Naked And War formed and featured on the well known local compilation CD ‘16 Days – The Depot Studios’, with their track ‘I Want It Now’. After four years The Naked And War came to a natural end, leaving Ashley with an overwhelming urge to create something which hadn’t happened before and wasn’t bland, boring or predictable, whilst also being both an experimental and an emotional outlet…Prole Position was born.
Whilst Prole Position has mainly centred around Ashley as a solo artist, he has often used musicians such as drummer Pete Hnatushka (Blitzkrieg Zone), and bass players Nigel Meffen (Skeet, Simon Seachange, Spoofer, Del-Chronics, Cherry Joe & the Lightning Crew) and the late Steve Dullaghan (The Primitives) to enhance his music.
Over the last 24 years Prole Position have released 18 CD / cassettes through Ashley’s record label Numb Ratio, each one subtly different from the last.
Prole Position have also appeared on a CD released by the National magazine Vive Le Rock with the track ‘Double Negative’ and on the first Alternative Sounds CD.
The latest album is due out in late 2023.
Ashley's publicity says -
"The multi-talented Ashley Spindler, aka Prole Position is one of the ‘wing-nuts’ that keeps the music machine rolling and with a set that combines the ‘wall of sound’ aspects of Phil Spector with the trashier excesses of ‘70’s glam, we should be in for a night of top quality ‘alternative sounds’".
Prole Position is basically Ashley Spindler - sometimes with a few musicians.
From Nigel Meffen
When musician, producer, actor and artist Ashley Spindler moved from his home town of Colchester to Coventry in 1989, he was hell bent on making music which was interesting and different, so his band The Naked And War formed and featured on the well known local compilation CD ‘16 Days – The Depot Studios’, with their track ‘I Want It Now’. After four years The Naked And War came to a natural end, leaving Ashley with an overwhelming urge to create something which hadn’t happened before and wasn’t bland, boring or predictable, whilst also being both an experimental and an emotional outlet…Prole Position was born.
Whilst Prole Position has mainly centred around Ashley as a solo artist, he has often used musicians such as drummer Pete Hnatushka (Blitzkrieg Zone), and bass players Nigel Meffen (Skeet, Simon Seachange, Spoofer, Del-Chronics, Cherry Joe & the Lightning Crew) and the late Steve Dullaghan (The Primitives) to enhance his music.
Over the last 24 years Prole Position have released 18 CD / cassettes through Ashley’s record label Numb Ratio, each one subtly different from the last.
Prole Position have also appeared on a CD released by the National magazine Vive Le Rock with the track ‘Double Negative’ and on the first Alternative Sounds CD.
The latest album is due out in late 2023.
Emma Sayers of the now defunct band Filthy Cake tells us that Ashley is "a great artist too - paintings and sculpture"
Ashley's publicity says -
"The multi-talented Ashley Spindler, aka Prole Position is one of the ‘wing-nuts’ that keeps the music machine rolling and with a set that combines the ‘wall of sound’ aspects of Phil Spector with the trashier excesses of ‘70’s glam, we should be in for a night of top quality ‘alternative sounds’".
Prole Position - Pete Chambers from The Coventry Observer Thursday April 30th 2020
Prole Position have an new EP out.
Prole (or Ashley Spindler) who is the man behind the project) is a genius - fact.
It is a constant frustration that this guy is not a major artist. With Prole Position, there is always something different on offer, always original, always intense and as real as it can be. Yet, it is a travesty that the world hasn't woken up to him. To me he hasn't ever made a bad record.
His new EP "All This For the Sake of Penetration" is another high quality offering; imagine the scene, high guitars, hypnotic drum beats, and a unique vocal line cutting through it all like some demented soul that's determined to be heard.
If it sounds like some unnatural cacophony then think again, despite the hard edge the leody always gets through, it's quite an experience listening to Prole Position, but once you get it, you get it.
This EP is another highlight to a classic body of work. Prole could not be accused of the use of understatement, and this set of songs explore the erotic, psychotic side of life, you will get no moon in June here, thank you.
I have no idea if Ashley sets out to shock. I would think he doesn't, he's just saying it as he sees it. He's an artist and a writer and producer, fine artist and actor. The inventor of Existential Glam. So there is never any room for compromise. And why should he, although it may be a hint as to why his music defies mainstream attention.
Either way, it's time you became a fan.
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