Dave & Barbara's old bands -
the progressive connection

Korean prog fans dance to one of Dave's '70s compositions.
 

   As we occasionally receive enquiries about Dave & Barbara's old bands (Egg, Hatfield & The North, National Health, Bruford, Spirogyra, etc.) we have compiled the following list of currently available CD's. (It's now quite badly out of date, sorry!) Please note that WE CANNOT SUPPLY THESE CDs.

 

BROKEN RECORDS CD INFORMATION - THE OLD STUFF

DAVE STEWART'S OLD BANDS

EGG (1968-1972)
Dave Stewart (keys), Mont Campbell (bs/vocals), Clive Brooks (drs).
EGG (1969)                       UK (Deram 844 168-2), Japan (Deram POCD 1843)
THE POLITE FORCE (1970)          Japan (Deram POCD 1844) 
THE CIVIL SURFACE (1974)         UK (Virgin CACD 1510), Japan (Virgin VJD 5026)
       'Civil Surface' was a reunion album recorded after Egg's split in '72, featuring hitherto unrecorded material from the band's live set. The UK CD version of 'Egg' (if you can find it) includes 'Seven Is A Jolly Good Time' and 'You Are All Princes', 'A' & 'B' side of the group's only single.

Contact (1st 2 albums): Decca Records, 347-353 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4HS, Tel: 0181 747 8787
(Civil Surface) Virgin Records, Kensal House, 553-579 Harrow Road, London W10 4RH, Tel: 0181 964 6000.

ARZACHEL (1969)
Dave Stewart (Sam Lee-Uff) (keys), Steve Hillage (Simeon Sasparella) (gtr/vocals), Mont Campbell (Njerogi Gategaka) (bs/vocals), Clive Brooks (Basil Dowling) (drs).
  
ARZACHEL (1969)          UK (Drop Out Records DOCD 1983)
       Effectively the only recording by Uriel, this is a one-off psychedelic album recorded in an afternoon by the Egg line-up plus erstwhile Uriel guitarist Steve Hillage. Contractual problems with Decca were avoided by the use of ridiculous pseudonyms - in Dave & Clive's case, the names of much hated school teachers. The 1994 re-release on Drop Out  Records features a detailed sleeve note by Dave Stewart.

KHAN (1971 - 1972)
Steve Hillage (gtr/vocals), Nick Greenwood (later, Nigel Griggs) (bs/vocals), Eric Peachey (drs),
Dick Henningham (later, Dave Stewart) (keys).
SPACE SHANTY (1972)           UK (Deram 844 008-2) Japan (Deram POCD 1845)
       Steve Hillage left Uriel in 1969 to go to Kent University, and in 1970 formed his own band Khan. Their debut (and only) album features Dave Stewart guesting on keyboards.

Contact: Decca Records (address above).

HATFIELD AND THE NORTH (1973-1975)
Dave Stewart (keys), Phil Miller (gtr), Richard Sinclair (bs/vocals), Pip Pyle (drs).
  
HATFIELD AND THE NORTH (1973)                Worldwide (Virgin CDV 2008)
THE ROTTERS' CLUB (1975)                     Worldwide (Virgin CDV 2030)
AFTERS (compilation)                         Not available on CD
HATFIELD AND THE NORTH* - LIVE 1990 (1993)   UK & export (Demon/CODE 90 NINETY 6)
       CD version of debut LP includes 'Let's Eat (Real Soon)' and 'Fitter Stoke Has A Bath', 'A' & 'B' side of Hatfield's only single. 'The Rotters' Club' CD has 3 live bonus tracks previously only available on the vinyl-only 'Afters'. There is no material on 'Afters' which is not on one or other of the 2 CD's. In 1990 the band (minus Dave Stewart) re-formed to record a T.V. reunion show, most of which can be heard on a live album entitled 'Hatfield and The North - Live 1990' now available from Demon Records. On this, Sophia Domancich (Pip Pyle's erstwhile girlfriend) plays keyboards.

Contact: Virgin Records, Demon Records (addresses above).

NATIONAL HEALTH (1976-1980)
Dave Stewart, Alan Gowen (keys), Phil Miller (gtr), Neil Murray (later, John Greaves) (bs),
Amanda Parsons (vocals), Pip Pyle (drs).
  
NATIONAL HEALTH (1978)                          UK & export (Charly/Decal CDLIK 66)
OF QUEUES AND CURES (1978)                      UK & export (Charly/Decal CDLIK 70)
DS AL CODA (1981)                               UK & export (Voiceprint VP129CD)
NATIONAL HEALTH - COMPLETE (1990)               USA/Canada (East Side Digital ESD 80402/412)
MISSING PIECES (1996)                           USA/Canada (East Side Digital ESD 81172)
                                                UK & export (Voiceprint VP113CD)
       Born at the time of punk, National Health struggled at first to find a record deal. By the time Charly Records released the group's much-delayed debut album in 1977, the band had undergone several key changes of membership, and only recorded one further album ('Of Queues & Cures') before breaking up in 1980. After Alan Gowen's untimely death from leukaemia in 1981, the band reformed to record a tribute album of his compositions, 'DS Al Coda', which has now been released on CD by the excellent UK specialist label Voiceprint. For the committed collector, all 3 albums can be found in their entirety, augmented by some interesting bonus tracks, on the lovingly compiled 'National Health - Complete' double CD set. This comes with a lengthy tragi-comic history of the band written by Dave Stewart..
      20 years on, 'Missing Pieces' is a chance to hear the first line-up of the band (Stewart / Gowen / Miller / Parsons plus Mont Campbell (bs), Phil Lee (2nd gtr), Steve Hillage (guest 2nd gtr) & Bill Bruford (drs)) tackling early pieces by Dave Stewart and Mont Campbell. This CD album contains good quality, complete versions of some great compositions, plus one or two surprises.
 
Contact: (1st. 2 albums): Charly Records (whereabouts currently unknown).
'DS Al Coda' & 'Missing Pieces': Voiceprint, Sunrise House, Sunrise Lane, Houghton-Le-Spring, Tyne & Wear DH4 5AL, England. Tel: 0191 512 1103, Fax: 0191 512 1104.

BRUFORD (1978-1980)
Bill Bruford (drs), Allan Holdsworth (later, John Clark) (gtr), Jeff Berlin (bs), Dave Stewart (keys).
(Annette Peacock (guest vocals) on 'Feels Good To Me' only)
  
FEELS GOOD TO ME (1978)         Japan/USA (EGCD 33)
ONE OF A KIND (1979)            Japan/USA (EGCD 40)
THE BRUFORD TAPES (live)(1979)  Japan (Virgin VJD 28054), Rest of World (EEGCD 6)
GRADUALLY GOING TORNADO (1980)  Japan/USA (EGCD 44)
       'Feels Good To Me' is a Bill Bruford solo LP on which Dave Stewart (then with National Health) appears on keyboards. In 1979 Bill & Dave formed 'Bruford', made 'One Of A Kind' with Allan Holdsworth on guitar, then 2 more albums with his replacement John Clark. The 4 albums were initially released in Japan only, but 'The Bruford Tapes' is out now worldwide, with the other 3 to follow.

Contact: Voiceprint (address above).


RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (1980-1981)
Dave Stewart (keys), Jakko Jakszyk (gtr/vocals), Rick Biddulph (bs), Pip Pyle (drs).

       Short lived gigging band formed by Dave & Pip, recorded only demos - even these were incomplete! Consequently, no records or CD's available.

BARBARA GASKIN'S OLD BANDS

SPIROGYRA (1969-1974)
Barbara Gaskin (vocals), Martin Cockerham (gtr/vocals), Julian Cusack (vln/keys), Steve Borrill (bs),
plus guests Dave Mattacks (drs - all 3 albums) and Mark Francis (gtr - 2nd album only)
  
ST. RADIGUND'S (1972)               Germany (Repertoire Records RR 4070-WZ)
                                    Korea   (Si-Wan Records SRM 5005)
OLD BOOT WINE (1972)                Germany (Repertoire Records REP 4132-WY)
                                    Korea   (Si-Wan Records SRM 5006)
BELLS, BOOTS AND SHAMBLES (1973)    Germany (Repertoire Records RR 4137-WZ)
                                    Korea   (Si-Wan Records SRM 5007)
WE WERE A HAPPY CREW (1999)         UK & Export (Mooncrest Records CRESTCD 038)
4-CD BOX SET (1999)                 Korea   (Si-Wan Records)
BURN THE BRIDGES (2000)             Germany (Repertoire Records REP 4846)
                                    Korea & Japan (Si-Wan Records SRMC-5010)
       Not to be confused with the US jazz-rock outfit of the same name, Spirogyra was a folk-rock band formed by students at Kent University, Canterbury. The 3 albums have now been reissued - the Korean editions on Si-Wan Records are available on both CD and vinyl LP, the latter in a 3 box set with 70's-style gate fold sleeves and a poster! Continuing their staunch support for the band, Si-Wan Records have also released a 4-CD box set containing all three studio albums plus a CD single. Included is a 55-page booklet with photos and all the song lyrics.

       The April 2000 release 'Burn The Bridges' is a CD of previously unheard Spirogyra recordings, recorded at Kent University, Canterbury. These carefully recorded demo tapes were lost for nearly thirty years, but have now been meticulously restored.

Contact: Thomas Neelsen, Repertoire Records, Adlerhorst 15, D-22459 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (49) 40 555 8620, Fax: (49) 40 555 862 20.
Si-Wan Seong, Si-Wan Records Ltd., 1F, 175-22 Dongkyo-Dong, Mappo-ku, Seoul, Korea. Tel: (82) 2 325 3544~6 Fax: (82) 2 338 3122.


HEALTH WARNING - 'We Were A Happy Crew' (released in March 1999) is a Mooncrest Records (UK) Spirogyra compilation, featuring a selection of tracks from the band's three 1970's albums. Unfortunately the CD was mastered by Mooncrest from dubious sources, and the resulting product is of poor sonic quality, with distortion and extraneous noises throughout. At the insistence of Barbara Gaskin the CD has now been properly mastered from the original master tapes, and anyone who owns the original faulty pressing may swap it for the re-mastered CD. (If in any doubt which version you own, check the opening 7 or 8 seconds of track 5 - if you hear a loud knocking sound like someone kicking a mike stand, you've got the original!) To get your replacement, contact:

Billy Masterson, Trojan Sales, Unit 25, Forest Business Park, South Access Road, Walthamstow, London E17 8BA. Tel: 0181 509 2099. Fax: 0181 520 0652.

RED ROLL-ON (1979-1981)
Barbara Gaskin (keys/vocals), Belinda James (gtr/vocals), Jane Wilkes (vocals), Angela Duignan (bs/vocals), Germaine Dolan (drs/vocals).

On returning from a 3 1/2 year trip to India, Indonesia & Japan, Barbara was invited to join this all-female Canterbury band by drummer Germaine Dolan. Red Roll-On played plenty of gigs, but never recorded an album - only recorded work (other than demos) were 2 songs on the 'First Offenders' Canterbury local bands compilation album (Criminal Records, 1981) now deleted, not available on CD.

ASSOCIATED MUSICIANS

 
DIRK 'MONT' CAMPBELL (b1950)
  
MUSIC FROM A ROUND TOWER (1996)           UK/Europe/Japan (Voiceprint/Resurgence RES120CD)
                                          USA/Canada (East Side Digital ESD 81212)

An absolutely brilliant solo album from Dave Stewart's musical mentor and 'Egg' co-founder. This multi-instrumental CD, devised as one continuous piece, is Campbell's first release since 1970!

Contact Voiceprint (address above).

GILGAMESH (1973-1978)
Alan Gowen (keys), Phil Lee (gtr), Jeff Clyne (later, Hugh Hopper) (bs), Mike Travis (later, Trevor Tomkins) (drs).
  
GILGAMESH (1975)                          Japan (Virgin VJCP 2534)
ANOTHER FINE TUNE YOU'VE GOT ME INTO
(c/w SOFT HEAP) (1978)                    Japan (Charly/Century 29ED 6032)
Alan Gowen's main project before founding National Health with Dave Stewart in 1975. 2nd album is bracketed together with album by 'Soft Heap', a blowing band formed by Alan (keys) with Elton Dean (sax), Hugh Hopper (bs) and Pip Pyle (drs).

Contact (Gilgamesh): Virgin Records (address above).
(Another Fine Tune): Charly Records (address unknown).

ALAN GOWEN
  
with Hugh Hopper(bs)
TWO RAINBOWS DAILY                              (USA & export) Cuneiform Records (Rune77)
IMPROVISATIONS                                  (UK & export) Voiceprint (VP186CD) 
with Richard Sinclair (bs), Phil Miller (gtr), Trevor Tomkins (drs)
BEFORE A WORD IS SAID (1981)                    (UK & export) Voiceprint (VP130CD)
       Thanks to Voiceprint and Cuneiform, these albums finally emerged on CD after being unavailable for years. The duo album 'Two Rainbows Daily' features some very nimble and intuitive playing. 'Before A Word Is Said', the last album Alan recorded before his death, came out on Voiceprint at the same time as the National Health musical tribute to Gowen, 'D.S. Al Coda'.

Contact: Cuneiform Records, P.O. Box 8427, Silver Spring, MD 20907-8427, USA. Fax: (301) 589 1819.
Voiceprint (address above).

PHIL MILLER
  
CUTTING BOTH WAYS (1987)                USA (Cuneiform Rune 11 CD), Japan (Virgin VJCP 25065)
SPLIT SECONDS (1988)                    Worldwide excl.Japan (Reckless CD Reck 8), 
                                        Japan (Virgin VJCP 25067)
IN CAHOOTS LIVE 86-89 (1991)            France/Europe (Mantra O60), Japan (Virgin VJCP 28081)
DIGGING IN (1991)                       USA (Cuneiform Rune 34 CD), Japan (Virgin VJCP 28089)
DOUBLE UP (1992)                        UK & export (Crescent Discs CD1 CD)
IN CAHOOTS LIVE IN JAPAN (1993)         UK & export (Crescent Discs CD2 CD)
IN CAHOOTS - RECENT DISCOVERIES (1994)  UK & export (Crescent Discs CD3 CD)
IN CAHOOTS - PARALLEL (1996)            UK & export (Crescent Discs CD4 CD)
        Phil's band 'In Cahoots' (featuring Elton Dean (sax), Pete Lemer/Steve Franklin (keys), Hugh Hopper/Fred Baker (bass), Pip Pyle (drs) and newest member Jim Dvorak (tpt)) have been gigging since 1984, and appear on 6 of Phil's 8 solo albums. On 'Digging In', Phil took a different approach, overdubbing Fred Baker & Pete Lemer on material programmed by him and Pip Pyle. The results show that MIDI sequencing and intelligent composing can go together. 'Double Up' is a duo album with Fred Baker (bass).

All CD's + Phil Miller newsletter available from: Crescent Discs, 29a Colvestone Crescent, London E8 2LG, UK. Tel: 0171 254 1390.
Cuneiform Records (address above), Reckless Records, 79 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 0NU, Tel: 0171 359 0501.
Reckless Records, 1401 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA, Tel: (415) 431 3434.

PIP PYLE
  
UP - L'EQUIP OUT (1991)       France (Gimini Music 3 TMR 301)
       Sadly, Pip died in 2006. He had been living in Paris since the early 80's, and has worked with Sophia Domancich (pno) and his own band L'Equip Out. (Trans: The Out Team). His solo album 'Seven Year Itch' has a deranged pop slant and features contributions from many of his collaborators, past and present!

Pip Pyle and Sophia Domancich's CD's are available in the UK from Crescent Discs (address above).

SHORT WAVE
  

SHORT WAVE - LIVE (1993)       France (Gimini Music GM1003)
       Yet another Miller/Pyle pairing, this CD features the quartet of Phil, Pip, Didier Malherbe (flt/sax) and Hugh Hopper (bass) recorded live in France.

CD available from Crescent Discs (UK), address above.

JOHN GREAVES
(Solo)
PARROT FASHIONS                   Not available on CD
LA PETITE BOUTEILLE DE LINGE      France (CD LLL1117)
SONGS (featuring Robert Wyatt)    UK & export (Voiceprint/Resurgence RES 112CD)
Label La Lichere/S.A.A.T.P., 9 Rue des Apennins, 75017 Paris, France. Voiceprint (address above). 
(with Peter Blegvad)
KEW RHONE                         Worldwide (Virgin CDV 2082)
THE LODGE                         Worldwide (Island/Antilles ANCD 8711)
Island Records/Antilles (whereabouts currently unknown).


RICHARD SINCLAIR
  
RICHARD SINCLAIR'S CARAVAN OF DREAMS (1992)      UK & export (HTD Records HTD CD7)
AN EVENING OF MAGIC (1993)                       Italy & export (Mellow Records MMP 160),
                                                 UK & export (HTD Records HTD CD17)
R.S.V.P. (1994)                                  UK & export (Sinclair Songs, R.S.S. CD001)
Richard's first solo CD releases since Hatfield & The North split in 1975. Caravan of Dreams is Richard (vocals, gtr.), Andy Ward (drums) and Rick Biddulph (bass), with guest appearances by Dave Sinclair (keyboards, both albums) and Jimmy Hastings (flute - 'Caravan Of Dreams' album only). 'An Evening of Magic' (double CD) features the group live in Gerona, Italy, and is a chance to hear some old favourites like 'Golf Girl', 'Share It' and 'Oh Caroline' again. 'R.S.V.P.' is a Richard Sinclair solo studio album with guest appearances by a whole host of Canterbury-related musicians: Didier Malherbe, Tony Coe, Jimmy Hastings, Hugh Hopper, Andy Ward, Pip Pyle and U.S. keyboardist Kit Watkins. The Canterbury Sound lives on.

Contact Heather Kinnear (Google for 'Sinclair Songs'.)

BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS
  
EARTHWORKS (1987)                           Worldwide (Editions EG, EEGCD 48)
DIG? (1989)                                 Worldwide (Editions EG, EEGCD 60)
ALL HEAVEN BROKE LOOSE (1991)               Worldwide (Editions EG, EEG 2103-2)
EARTHWORKS LIVE - STAMPING GROUND (1993)    Worldwide (Virgin CDVE 922)
All 4 CD's distributed in the UK & Japan by Virgin Records and in the USA by Caroline Records, both addresses above. The original Earthworks line-up consisted of Bill (drs), Django Bates (keys), Iain Ballamy (sax) and Mick Hutton (later, Tim Harries) (bs). Truly 'progressive' (ie, doesn't sound like progressive music circa 1972), electronic and jazzy. (Nowadays less electronic.)

Contact: Bill Bruford via Richard Chadwick, Opium Arts, 49 Portland Road, London W11 4LJ, Tel: 0171 229 5080, Fax: 0171 229 4841

NEIL (Nigel Planer)

The gormless hippy from T.V.'s 'The Young Ones' joined forces with Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin in 1984 to record an amusing version of Traffic's 'Hole In My Shoe'. The single's inevitable chart success spawned a further collaboration, the magnificent 'Neil's Heavy Concept Album', now available on CD after years of wrangling with Warner's legal breadheads. 

NEIL'S HEAVY CONCEPT ALBUM (1984)           Europe (East West 4509-94852-2)
Contact: Warners / East West, 28 Kensington Church Street, London W8 4EP, Tel: 0171 938 2181


OTHER SHOWBIZ PALS

The following folk are all musically (and comedically) active in the 90's:

DIRK 'MONT' CAMPBELL (EGG / NATIONAL HEALTH)
'Music From A Round Tower' is the first album release by composer and multi-instrumentalist Dirk Campbell since the early 70's. In those days, he was known as Mont Campbell, one of the most respected composers in the English progressive avant-garde, and founder member, along with Dave Stewart, of the organ trio Egg. In 1972 Mont quit the music scene altogether and worked as a graphic designer, briefly returning in 1976 to play bass and compose for Dave Stewart's band National Health. During the 80's, Dirk (having shed his old school nickname) became expert on a wide range of ethnic wind instruments, and developed an interest in traditional music. In 1991 he began to compose for film and television, winning a BAFTA award in 1993. In 1995, inspired by the compositional possibilities of MIDI and the sound of acoustic world musical instruments, Dirk began work on his first solo album, Music From A Round Tower. The piece is a summing-up of Campbell's musical experiences to date, from his childhood in Egypt and East Africa, through early Stravinsky to synthesised soundscapes and performance art. The music is both beautiful and intelligent, and has been described as "the real progressive music for the 90's". Composed in an East Sussex oast house, the album was completed with the help of old friend Dave Stewart. Musicians: Dirk Campbell (ney flute, kaval, reedpipes, bansri, gaida, tulum, daoul, whistle, keyboards, vocals), George Hadjineophytou (saz, oud, kemanche), Barbara Gaskin, Lucianne Lassalle (vocals).

GAVIN HARRISON
Master drummer Gavin Harrison's debut album 'Sanity & Gravity' is a mindboggling collection of rhythmic compositions. Working largely with improvised material, Harrison makes canny use of MIDI hard disc recording to impose order and direction on the mad outpourings of Mick Karn and Richard Barbieri (ex-Japan), Gary Sanctuary, Sultan Khan (dilruba), Heitor Pereira of Simply Red and Jakko Jakszyk (see below). Dave Stewart guests on keyboards on two tracks.

'Sanity & Gravity' is available from Burning Shed.

CHRIS CUTLER (HENRY COW / ART BEARS)
Information on the Henry Cow dynasty, and indeed, a whole host of weird & wonderful global musical exotica, can be obtained from Chris Cutler, RéR Megacorp, 79 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG.

DAEVID ALLEN / GONG
Contact G.A.S. (Gong Appreciation Society), P.O. Box 871, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9FE, UK. Daevid Allen's recent CD's (and stuff by Robert Wyatt and a whole host of Canterbury-related musicians) can be obtained from Voiceprint (UK record company - see MAIL ORDER section).

JAKKO JAKSZYK
Jakko, Dave Stewart's old crony in the unwisely-named 'Rapid Eye Movement' (we thought of it first) has now attained superstardom by joining Level 42 on guitar. However, don't let that put you off - he is also releasing interesting new solo material, some of it in collaboration with three ex-members of 'Japan', on his own 'Resurgence' label, distributed by Voiceprint.

RICK BIDDULPH
Having occupied the bass role in 'Rapid Eye Movement' (yes, it was a bad choice of name) 'Caravan of Dreams' (Richard Sinclair's band) and now 'Mirage' (featuring various ex-Camel and ex-Caravan members), Rick has recently released a CD of his own evocative, soundtrack-like material, 'Second Nature', through Voiceprint.

VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH
The brilliant satirist and writer continues his attacks on the rich and pompous with a series of scurrilous, hilarious and probably illegal phone calls. If you find a copy of Victor's last release 'Nuisance Calls', buy it before someone slaps an injunction on it!


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