Between 1980 and 1982 Dave Smith and I recorded songs in my 'home studio' (in my bedroom) along with another friend, Neil Harvey. Several of these songs were broadcast by Radio Norfolk's Wally Webb (especially the one we wrote about him!). They were:
- The Attack of the Fifty Foot Flying Blue Slugmen (Smith/Viner)
- Creating Modern Music (Viner)
- Goodbye (Viner)
- In the Night (Viner)
- On and On (Viner)
- Only One (Viner)
- Psycho Santa (Harvey/Smith)
- Shadow in the Alley (Viner)
- The Wally Webb Song (Smith)
During 1981 we put out a tape called Kilamadgargoyle (see the next page) whose title was a spoof on Kilimanjaro which had just been released by the Teardrop Explodes. It contained 28 songs from the Toads, Broadside Outcasts, Silent Noise, Turkey Molesters etc. Many were attributed to totally ficticious bands! It was favourably reviewed by the local Evening News and, although several were given away, it managed to sell not a single copy!
Between 1978 and 1983 Dave Smith also played in several other groups (see the Silent Noise & Girls page).
In 1994, while at UEA (University of East Anglia) taking a computing degree, I met Pete O'Connor and we did a bit of recording on his Fostex 4-track cassette recorder which I then borrowed for a while (and then bought off him) to record some more of my own stuff. During this time I also experimented with using computer-based sequencers. Amongst the songs from this period were:
- I Will Return (1994)
- Image (1996)
- William, Clear Up Yer Room (1999)
(The above three are available as mp3s from the Download Songs page.)
