| Nom de Son |
Common Name |
Instruments |
Other Info |
Key Phrase, Act or other noteworthy thing |
| Strangely Perfect |
Martin Rees |
Keyboards, vox, sax, washboard, engineering, composition, electronics,
construction, producer |
Beer and mushrooms. Produced home-brew which was “quite drinkable” |
Chose the name “Crawling Chaos”. On the green tape. |
Doomage Khult
(Vex Drongo in Thee Earnest Kakas) |
Jeff Crowe |
guitars, keyboards, vox, sax, cellophane, engineering, composition, electronics,
construction, producer |
Beer and mushrooms
TEK |
Drank 1 litre of warm, stale chip fat. Agreed “Crawling Chaos” was a good thing and we should do it. On the green tape. |
| Davenport Haltonberry or Holly |
David Halton |
guitars, composition, mixage, vox, additional sounds |
Beer and stuff. Arrived from “Nothin’”
TEK |
Hairy mole on neck (still!). Famously berated “A Certain Ratio” as “A Certain Pair of Tights” to shut them up. |
| Mister Excess Clinka, or Gazza |
Garry Clennell |
drums, composition |
Beer and cider. |
Clinked a lot due to habit of staggering fully loaded up stairs with cider bottles. His mother had their dead pet dog in restaurant freezer for a time (Alice’s Restaurant in Whitley Bay). Under the frozen chips. |
|
Gordon Douglas Smith |
TEK |
TEK |
In Thee Earnest Kakas |
| Macky |
Robert Macdonald |
vox on Mummy’s Tummy |
Argumentative nazi type |
designed cover for “The Big C” and early artworks and photography and cover for Homunculus Equinox cassette |
| Straight Dave (Cookie) |
Dave Cook |
Bass |
Left before output to public domain |
got one neat riff right off that I taught him.
Too straight for words |
| Steve Smooth |
Steve Smith |
Bass |
Left before output to public domain |
Knew when to leave.
Too smooth for words |
| ***** |
Anth Chester |
Vox, guitar,synth and jamming |
gets annoyed when he’s not called “Anth” or if you mention plasterering. |
Lent out house for second major studio location. Is “suck” voice |
| Ligger (Curly) John |
John Smith |
Is the self immoliator on the Homunculus Equinox cassette sleeve (Foetus
cover up sticker censors area) |
More Beer! |
nae scran! Sucked in by key phrase “I feel, like a suicide’s death-bed” on Urbane Encounter at first gig at Bridge Hotel. Famously berated Joy Division calling them Joyce repetitively till Curtis cracked. Fan and devilled kidneys supplier |
| Errol Dynamic |
Eddie Fenn |
Drums, composition |
beer and pile ointment |
Shagged my sister. Enabled flat for first studio (”Sex Machine” recorded there.) Said “are you tonkin’ Caroline now?”. Pretty obvious really. |
| Billy Connolly |
Howard Titchmarsh |
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Accidental drinker of piss. |
Narrator of “The Baseball Bat Battle of North Tyneside” |
| George |
George Linton |
Drums, composition |
came from Freak Electrik to help out |
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| Bingo |
Gareth Kingsley Marshall |
bass and finger snips |
Bingo’s dad, Alec Bedlington Marshall, did the Waqqaz artwork |
cracked his head falling off his bike |
| Macho Johnson |
Mark Johnson |
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Hung around a bit in the early days. Keeps appearing on photos. |
| Hippy Mick |
Mick Paterson |
|
Driver and dope fiend. Still probably hasn’t had his sacks emptied by
Chrissie. |
|
| Haircut |
Paul Shields |
vox, scrumpled cellophane on “One More Peso” |
Sniffed a lot. Immaculate powers of observation. |
When asked why he was puking, he replied “I thought everyone was doing it”. |
| Sally |
Sally Wilson |
occasional vox. Performance. |
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| Trube |
Susan Truby |
occasional backing vox |
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| Keef |
Keith Wear |
drums on early efforts. Drums used by Errol Dynamic until they were “nicked” |
Left before output to public domain (basically not a very good drummer) |
Cycles. On the green tape. |
| Hippy Jeff |
Geoff Kennedy |
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Drove van quite a bit, usually smashed. |
Set up infamous all-night biker gig at deserted abbey on banks of River Wear. Ended up nicking all our mushrooms and then getting locked up in Durham Jail for a long time for dealing, man. |
| Bryan Sowerby |
Bryan Sowerby |
Drums,composition |
Even bigger nose than Holly (says Holly) |
ex “The Noise Toys” & The Hostages. Drums on Waqqaz. |
| Dave (Weirdbeard/Pipsqueak) |
Dave Pipkin |
Drums,composition |
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Supported Brian May as part of STAN at Newcastle City Hall |
| Rob Pybus |
Rob Joiner |
Guest Sax |
Solicitor for Inglejew, Bottrel, Roache and Pybus. |
Sax addict. Called to the bar. |
| Spug |
Andy Douglass |
bass |
Played bass at last gig (Belgium). Talented fucker who could play anything. |
Last heard of driving at 50mph in a lorry |
| Yeti |
Darren Yates |
drums |
TEK |
He’s a great artist. In Thee Earnest Kakas |
Posted on 00:04, August 5th, 2007 by Strangely
