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DISERCH MAXWELL'S MECHANICAL MONKEY WRENCH ALAN JONES AND THE DEAD UNICORNS SCOTT WILLIAMS |
Formed: North Wales, 1969
by MILLER and SAXTON. Heavily inspired by the VELVET UNDERGROUND, they
were an essentially live act, who's depressed music made up the soundtrack
for the lives of many a pessimistic youth entering the new decade. Were
a large influence on THE SEED and DIRYWIO.
Style:
VELVETS / COHEN influenced sound. Songwriters: Group penned. Trivia:
Drummer,
MERRIFIELD was previously a member of the much happier sounding CATHY
CARROW AND THE COOKIE CRUMBS.
ED MILLER (b.1947)-
vocals, guitar / EUROS SAXTON
(b.1950)- bass, vocals /
TONY MERRIFIELD (ex-CATHY CARROW
AND THE COOKIE CRUMBS) - drums /
IFAN HOLM (b.1948)- organ, guitar, violin
Play live across Wales. Eventually release a single:
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Aug '76 (7" - 7D1) DISTRYWIWR / OFN YN AML |
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Call it a day soon after. SAXTON goes
on to form MAXWELL'S MECHANICAL MONKEY WRENCH.
May '04 - DISERCH reform as: ED MILLER- vocals, guitar / TONY MERRIFIELD - drums / IFAN HOLM - organ, guitar, violin / EDGAR BROOKS - bass, vocals They intermittently gig around the valleys.
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| MAXWELL'S MECHANICAL MONKEY WRENCH | |
| Formed: Lampeter, North Wales, 1976, by SAXTON and TRAGELLEN.
Tried to recapture the quirky style of ET CETERA
and to fuse it with a contemporary punk ethic. Largely eclipsed by the
far quirkier THE MARGARETS. Style:
Punk
with piano. Heavily influenced by ET CETERA.
Songwriters:
group
penned. Trivia: The EP tracks were different recordings to those
on the original single.
EUROS SAXTON (ex-DISERCH) - guitar, vocals / BOB TRAGELLEN (ex-GORWEL EDWARDS) - drums, vocals / DAVID TURNER - piano / ALAN QUAY - bass |
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Oct '76 (7" - 7MW1) FED UP / UNOPENED PRESENT |
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Nov '77 (7"-ep - EPMW1) UNOPENED PRESENT / MUSICAL CHAIRS / FED UP / DEAD |
| Band fold in '78 when TURNER and TRAGELLEN leave to join THE SCOTT WILLIAMS RETAIL UNIT. QUAY joins ALAN JONES AND THE DEAD UNICORNS. | |
| Alan JONES and the DEAD UNICORNS | |
| Formed: North Wales, 1976, by JONES, HOLM and ALDRITCH. MILLER
was promptly invited in. Generally carried on the work of DISERCH. Disbanded
in the mid-'80s. Style: Post-VELVETS, post-DISERCH sound with perhaps
a little more whimsy. Songwriters: Jones and Holm, plus covers.
Trivia:
Aldritch
dated CATHY CARROW during the late 70s and early
80s.
ALAN JONES - drums, vocals / IFAN HOLM (ex-DISERCH) - violin, guitar, organ / MIKE ALDRITCH - bass / ED MILLER (ex-DISERCH) - guitar, vocals |
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May '77 (7" - 7AJ1) CRYNU / QUIVER |
| ALDRITCH leaves in 1982, and joins CATHY CARROW. He is replaced by ALAN QUAY (ex-MAXWELL'S MECHANICAL MONKEY-WRENCH) | |
| Scott WILLIAMS | |
| Born: South Wales, 1954. Worked in local radio in the seventies and eventually set up his trio. Style: piano-centric tongue-in-cheek art-pop-rock. Songwriters: all Williams. Trivia: | |
| THE SCOTT WILLIAMS RETAIL UNIT | |
| SCOTT WILLIAMS - vocals; plus DAVID TURNER - piano / BOB TRAGELLEN - drums (both ex-MAXWELL'S MECHANICAL MONKEY-WRENCH) | |
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Jul '79 (7" - 7SW1) HUNG OUT / MEXICAN SANDWICH |
| WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAMS | |
| same line-up. | |
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Nov '80 (7" 7WW1) HOVERCRAFT LOVE / DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRIAL? |
| fold in 1982. |