Coventry Bands 1960's to Now: Aorta Major

Aorta Major

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AORTA MAJOR

Thanks to Dennis Burns who has, in recent years, put a number of tracks both on My Space and Typepad.

You'll hear Love Room, Speakers in the Crowd, One More Hour, Instamatic, Slow Depression, Bayton Road

Dennis's blog (with material by a number of his bands, is http://dennisburns.typepad.com/blog/

Dennis Burns has been in a number of bands along the way from the early 70's in the Coventry area including Flood, Urge, The Mix, Aorta Major, Fresh Maggots (as roadie), Stiletto, DBXLD

Bio
Aorta Major were from Bedworth in Warwickshire, UK and were formed in 1978 by
Chris Hull and Trevor Hawley - with Alex Pupovic originally on drums. They were later joined in 1979 by Dennis Burns on guitar and keyboards, and shortly afterwards Paul Johnston replaced Alex on drums. .. .. Later in 1980, Aorta Major were joined by Dave Dixon on tenor sax. .. ..Dennis left finally AM due to commitments with other bands from Coventry (The Mix and later, Urge and more recently formed his own classic rock covers band, Messenger with his sons Matt and Nick Burns. Trevor currently plays in another covers band, The Draw . .. ..The selection of tracks featured here (with the exception of "Speakers in the Crowd") were from Aorta Major's second and third visits to Woodbine Studio's in Leamington Spa. "Speakers in the Crowd" was recorded live at rehearsals. .. .. ..

The song Speakers in the Corner " This features: Chris Hull (lead vocals/ guitar), Trevor Hawley (bass/ backing vocals), Paul Johnston (drums), and myself (lead guitar/ backing vocals). Recorded live at rehearsals at Leamington back in 1980 (ish), using just 3 mikes through our PA mixer onto an old Sony tape recorder." (From Dennis Burn's Typepad blog)

Listen to Aorta Major - Speakers in the crowd (2010 mix) on this link

https://a2.typepad.com/6a0134878ea33d970c0134878eb13a970c-pi

Aorta Major - Speakers in the crowd (2010 mix)

Aorta Major (1980)

Line Up
Chris Hull - lead vocals/ guitar, .. Dennis Burns - backing vocals/ keyboards/ guitar, ..

Trevor Hawley - backing vocals/ bass guitar, ..

Paul Johnston - drums

Influences
Bowie, The Cure, Police, The Jam, Gang of Four, Ultravox
Sounds Like
Aorta Major (but with flavours of Bowie, Police and the Jam...)