![]() ![]() See who was playing that night - Twelfth Night in-between-singer-change, Liaison, Airbridge. Sixteener I spend a language school holiday in Cambridge, and every other night could just walk to the local pub and ![]() This buried treasure of a scene I have myself briefly participated in when as a Steering away from the technical dexterity of theirįorefathers, these bands had passion and power and have thus in part assimilated some of the new blood of theġ980s - they could be taken for postpunkers or new wavers even aesthetically but there is no mistake on where their ![]() Night, Pallas, IQ and Pendragon) a great deal of other bands just published demos, 7", live cassettes while they touredĮxtensively the darkest and grimiest geography of UK's venues. Aside from the notorious 5 (Marillion, Twelfth The previous decade is only partly captured by the official discographies. I'm a sucker for early 1980s neoprog, a magical period in which the British underground 'bounced back' against theĭominant musical regime and yielded a great number of bands whose efforts to re-establish the musical language of Posted Saturday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #2785867)Ĩ0'S NEOPROG AT ITS BEST. Scene, and with this new album they are back, and the result is a neo-prog delight. Their time in Tamarisk had a huge impact on the When Steve's replacement, Mark Kelly, was asked to join Marillion. Recording quality this sounds very much like something their younger selves could have recorded the first time around.īoth Steve and Andy were in Chemical Alice a million years ago, another band who have reached almost mythical status He has lost none of the passion or angst over the years, and apart from the The riffs, and then at the front is Andy Grant. On keyboards, and here he is in his element, while the rhythm section are tight which allows Tom to either noodle or hit "The Penetration Gap" has more than a hint of Twelfth Night) but given the history of the bands it is quite possible thatĬredo were actually influenced by them as opposed to the other way around. The new Tamarisk reminds me somewhat of what Credo were like more than 20 years ago (while The radar of the media who were doing their best to pretend the music did not exist and would hopefully disappear Unlike some neo-prog acts who have moved onto different pastures since those days, Tamarisk are allĪbout the time when it was possible to find bands playing this type of material in sweaty pubs and venues, totally under Who threw ourselves into that scene in the 80's and 90's it contains a wonderful naivety with that mix of rock and prog What we have here is unabashed neo-prog, and genre which even some progheads look down on, but for those of us With Ed Rome (who had been guitarist on one of their early cassettes) and guitarist Tom Yetton. Only Steve but original singer Andy Grant, Steve's Quasar and Landmarq bandmate, drummer Dave Wagstaffe, along With theĮxcellent 'Breaking The Chains' compilation being released, there is now a new Tamarisk on the block which features not (back in the days before email) about Landmarq, of which he was keyboard player, and I soon discovered his previousīand, Quasar, but while I knew he had been in Tamarisk I did not hear any of that material until fairly recently. Some 30 years ago we were swapping letters Almost 30 years after Tamarisk's demise the compilation album ''Frozen in time'' was released, containing the material of both the early E.P.'s of the group, thus giving the chance to prog fans to taste the band's unpolished, raw and underground Neo Prog sound.Ī while back, Steve Leigh and I got back in touch with each other again. Leigh spent some time with Quasar before forming Landmarq, while May had a nice career, initially joining Dagaband, then for a short time Jadis, appeared for a while with The Enid, while his latest collaboration was with Karnataka around 2005. In 1985 Tamarisk briefly performed as a trio of Leigh, Grant and May under the name of ''Corrupted by Toys'', before disbanding for good. Shortly after a line-up change occurred with Nick May taking over the bass duties and Brian Roberts being the drummer. The group went on to produce two very rare cassette E.P.'s, a self-titled in 1982 and ''Lost properties'' ta year later. Originally founded by Steve Leigh on keyboards, Andy Grant on vocals and Richard Crichton on drums, they secured a solid line-up only when Crichton was replaced by Richard Harris along with Peter Munday on guitars and Mark Orbell on bass. Coming from the Northeastern part of London, Tamarisk evolved around 1982 from the ashes of Chemical Alice (Mark Kelly of Marillion fame had spent time with this group). ![]()
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