Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
Sinking Ships |
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Genre/sub-genre |
Punk |
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Active From/To |
1979 - 1981 (1987 re-formed played a couple of gigs
- Croft Community centre, Cornhill Vaults. Then disbanded.) |
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Personnel |
Simon Brighton - Guitar/Vocals
Terry Welbourn - Vocals/Bass
Colin Moss - Guitar
Nick Green - Drums |
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Website |
www.sinkingships.co.uk/ |
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Releases |
'Smiles and Guns EP' - released
in cassette format - released spring 1980. 'Weight Loss'
& 'Third World' included on Stark products 'Household
Shocks' compilation vinyl LP (Cat. No. Stark LPC01 -
released: summer 1980) Studio Playground Wragby : 15-16
March 1980 - 8 Track Songs Recorded: Smiles & Guns/Third
World/Weight Loss/A Sinking Ship/I Start Personnel :
Simon Brighton - Guitar/ Nick Green - Drums / Colin
Hopkirk - Vocals / Terry Welbourn - Bass Produced by:
The Sinking Ships Engineered by : Andy Dransfield and
Rick Woolgar
'The Cinema Clock'/'Strangers'
7" vinyl single Released on Dead Good Records/Stark
Products (Cat. No. Dead 14/Stark 02 - released: November
1980). 'The Cinema Clock' was also included on disc
#3 of Julian Cope's 'Radio Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day'
X3 CD compliation - November 2003 - (released on Head
Heritage - Cat. No. HH14-3/4/5) Studio Playground Wragby
: Spring 1980 - 8 Track Songs Recorded : The Cinema
Clock/Strangers Personnel : Simon Brighton - Guitar
& Vocals / Nick Green - Drums / Terry Welbourn - Vocals
& Bass Produced by: The Sinking Ships Engineered by
: Rick Woolgar & Andy Dransfield Published by: Dead
Good Tunes/Street Corner Music Ltd.
"Ghosts EP" Recorded for Dead
Good Records as 12" mini album (remains unreleased)
Studio Playground Wragby : Early Spring 1981 - 16 Track
Songs Recorded: Ghosts/Everything/Lost Words/The Romance/A
Strange Affair/After the Rain Personnel : Simon Brighton
- Guitar/ Nick Green - Drums / Steve Orient - Keyboards/
Terry Welbourn - Vocals & Bass Produced by: The Sinking
Ships Engineered by : Rick Woolgar & Andy Dransfield
"Dream/After the Rain" 7' vinyl
single - released on Recession Records (Cat. No. REC
S1 - Released: April 1981) Studio Playground Wragby
: Late Spring 1981 - 16 Track Song Recorded: Dream Personnel
: Simon Brighton - Guitar/ Nick Green - Drums / Steve
Orient - Keyboards/ Terry Welbourn - Vocals & Bass /
Charlie Anderson - Sax Engineered by : Neal Quincey,
Rick Woolgar & Andy Dransfield Produced by : Colin Moss
Published by: Express Songs/Leeds Music Ltd. NB. B-Side;
After the Rain recorded live at Carres Grammar School,
Sleaford, Lincolnshire on 30/01/81 |
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Other Details |
Other Members:
Colin Hopkirk
Paul Mileman - also played in Secret Rivers, Persecution
Complexx, Dargelo's (1990 - from Louth) and is currently
in a punk band in Oslo Norway called Goldcrush
Steve Orient (also played in Interplay and Deluge)
Tracey Horseman
Charlie Anderson
David Reid
Dale Fixter
Terry Welbourn was also a member of Secret Rivers &
together with Simon Brighton played in Berlin and both
are currently involved in The Sons of T.C.Lethbridge
Colin Moss also played with Scapa Flow and Red Alert
Nick Green also played with The Spizzettes
See also:
Berlin
Deluge
Interplay
Persecution Complexx
Red Alert
Scapa Flow
Secret Rivers
The
Sons of TC-Lethbridge
The Spizzettes |
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