Quote Originally Posted by Si the Sigh


Got any "Back To The Planet" tracks you could upload for us to check out? :blush:

Loving Carl's hair in that photo! ^ :lol:

Am I right in saying you guys were on the front on NME?
the photo:
fraggle ( guitar ) me ( drums ) fil ( vocals ) guy ( keyboards )
carl ( bass )
i was with them from the beginning in 1989 until 1994 when i left. they found a replacement and recorded one more l.p. which was self financed and then the band finally split.

we started playing at the dole house ( a squatted venue ) in peckham south east london , and became the regular inn house band.
slowly we were becoming popular and started getting gigs around the country . we played loads of free festivals in the summer normally on the wango rileys travelling stage , which was an enormous removals lorry with one side that was cut out and folded out turning it into a decent looking stage with a full light rig and a sound system , sometimes the system was provided by dubfire who were freindsat with lawrie immersion who was himself in a band called psycastorm at the time.

as time went on we recorded 2 casette l.p.s one called
"earzone friendly" the other about a year later called "warning the public" which were manufactured by us with money generated by our gigs and sold at the gigs by us and later run as a sperate business by amy who was a big fan of the band.

we toured constantly playing gigs all over the uk as well as germany , france , belgium and spain , and we went on to make more recordings one a 12" called "revolution of thought" and we started work on a commercial release with jim warren from a studio called "the refuge" in reading , where r.d.f. once recorded.
jim warren went on to provide front of house sound for radiohead.
the recording sessions ended up being a dodgy deal and at this point we met our manager alex holland , who had been a fan of the band for a while.
it was alex who pulled the band together and got us set up in business with a recording deal with london records.
we were on a subsiduary label called parallel and we started work on our album at surrey sound , the greenhouse , and metropolis studios we were also remixed by orbital and a couple of other people who i now can't recall. we did three singles "turtles" "please dont fight" and "daydream"
we got into the charts with daydream (30 something i think)
and we appeared on music show "the word" hosted by terry christian
our l.p. "mind and soul collaborators" came out to mixed reviews in 1994 , it suffered from rising social problems within the band and a much too traditional recording style. basically we wanted to work with elctronic artists on the album,and the record company just hired guys who simply recorded us , it just wasn't very experimental at all.
so in jan 1995 i left and started working in a studio in deptford
the rest as they say is............