The Bevis Frond

The Bevis Frond is a British indie rock band from London, who published rock since 1987 23 albums with alternative rock and psychedelic.

History

Born in 1953, Nick Saloman had the same as a student in the late 1960s his first band name. After 15 more years of local musical work gave him in 1982 a serious motorcycle accident the start of a serious professional musician career. With the hard-won by a three-year lawsuit against the city of London compensation for an unlit construction site, he paid off his house and managed to own a small recording studio. Rather fun he had 250 copies of his first album pressing, but the sales Funhouse Records in Kent called surprising, and ordered 500 of them, because the vinyl albums to sell well.

Salomans goal was in his own words: ". I wanted a Hendrix / Wipers / Byrds sound but with a distinctly British feel" The following albums until 1988 were also included in the home studio and published on his own record label Vorontsov. Then he got a contract with Reckless Records in the UK and the USA.

All early albums were re-released on CD and thus Reckless financed the recording and getting out of the sixth album, Any Gas Faster, with a professional studio was used for the first time. From then on, the band with live performances began to tour. Another album from 1990, Magic Eye, was a collaboration with John Charles Alder, better known as Twink and his band Pink Fairies. On the next album, New River Head (1990 ), participated as a guest musician Barry Dransfield and David Tibet. The following year, appeared London Stone, with this album Reckless was very unhappy. After immediately after this break together, Saloman decided the album again on their own label Vorontsov bring out. Also, all following albums have appeared there.

Productive as ever published Saloman steadily more albums until the release of Hit Squad 2004. A few years earlier, he signed a contract with Past and Present for the UK and with Rubric Records for the U.S., so most of the early albums remastered with bonus tracks were re-released feature.

In February 2010, a download site for The Bevis Frond was opened. The goal of this project is the collected Bevis Frond material to make for music lovers in the best quality available. In addition, unreleased tracks from the entire creative life Salomans should be available digitally.

The early albums were usually only recorded by multi-instrumentalist Saloman, only the future with other band members. The music usually appeared on Vorontsov Records and is usually reviewed in the Ptolemaic Terra Scope music magazine. Most of the song material and production for the American singer Mary Lou Lord is also from Nick Solomon and his band. The song Lights Are Changing appeared on the compilation Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976-1995.

After seven years of creative publication Pause The Bevis Frond released a new album, The Leaving of London in October 2011. Recorded it was in the Golddust Studios with a new drummer, Dave Pearce and Adrian Shaw and Paul Simmons. A European tour and a tour of the UK have been scheduled for the next half year. In January 2012 concerts took place in Germany.

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • Sexorcist (1990 ) Clawfist
  • Snow EP ( 1991) Vorontsov ( free as a supplement to the Ptolemaic Terra Scope magazine)
  • High in a Flat ( free as a supplement of the Bucketful of Brains magazine, together with Dream Syndicate )
  • Summer Holiday EP ( 1993) Vorontsov
  • Let's Live For Today (1994 ) Helter Skelter
  • Dolly Bug ( 1995) Damaged Goods
  • Little Town Pier ( 1997) Spare Me
  • African Violet ( B-side of The Steppes ) ( 1998)

Saloman pseudonym and collaborations among

  • The von Trapp Family - Brand New Thrill single ( 1980) Vorontsov
  • Room 13 - Murder Mystery single ( 1982) Vorontsov
  • Nick & Nick & The Psychotic Drivers - Nick & Nick & The Psychotic Drivers (1988 ) Contempo Records
  • Magic Muscle - Gulp album ( 1992) Vorontsov
  • Fred Bison Five - Beat Roots album ( 1993) Vorontsov
  • Todd Dillingham & Nick Saloman - Art Into Dust CD (1993 ) Voice Print
  • Doctor Frond - Doctor Frond album ( 1998) Magic Gnome
  • Country Joe McDonald and The Bevis Frond - Eat Flowers and Kiss Babies Album ( 1998) Vorontsov
  • Scorched Earth - Fed To Your Head album ( 2001) Vorontsov
  • Mary Lou Lord - "Lights To Change " song on " Mary Lou Lord "
  • Mary Lou Lord - "Baby Blue " album 2004 ( Rubric Records).

Links, sources

  • The Bevis Frond at Allmusic (English)
  • Download Official site of the band
  • Full Band biography at Trouser Press
  • Dusted Magazine feature about Bevis Frond
  • The Bevis Frond at Discogs (English)
  • Http://bevisfrond.bandcamp.com/
  • Psychotropic Zone interview with Nick Saloman
  • Perfect Sound Forever interview with Nick Saloman
  • Aural Innovations interview with Nick Saloman

References, footnotes

  • British band
  • Alternative rock band
  • Psychedelic rock band
  • Indie Band
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