Stories from the Past
In the early days Lou was the bassist in Red Guitars. They released two albums, one on the band’s own Self Drive Records and one on Virgin Records. First single Good Technology was championed by the late, great John Peel who played it on Radio One. It made number 1 in the Indie chart and number 11 in his Festive Fifty. A handful of Peel sessions and top ten Indie hits later they had toured with The Smiths, appeared on The Tube, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Oxford Road Show, John Peel’s Sounds of the Suburbs and loads of German TV shows. They played hundreds of gigs, went out to dinner with Richard Branson, signed to Virgin Records and split…
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Meanwhile, Rich – also a bassist – was getting rave revues in Where? magazine “Catchy tunes and bass lines reminiscent of the Red Guitars”.
After that Lou played bass in The Planet Wilson who released two albums, one independently and one on Virgin Records. The Planet Wilson made NME and Sounds’ records of the week; “crazy-James-Chance-meets-Holger-Czukay…Lou’s bass playing is unbelievable – not just the tunes she invents, but the actual sound of her fingers hitting the strings, Mike Watt of Firehose is probably the only person who could match this”. They were highly acclaimed by just about all the music press, played loads of gigs, spent all the money and split…
Still got my Musicman Stingray Fretless Bass
Later vocalist and poet Rich performed to sell out audiences with Ozric Tentacles, Nick Harper and Tribal Drift and more.
Both Rich and Lou played their favourite gigs at the legendary Hebden Bridge Trades Club nights of the year – Christmas Eve, Bonfire Night and Riverside Festival.
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