Courtesy of Mark Spybey - these are photographs of The Euphoria Case, Spring 1985 (just a few months before I moved to London). Incidently the decay on these photos are not deliberate effects - the pictures were rescued from a flood at Mark's house. Click on the photos for enlargements.




l-r, Ronnie Burke, Mark Spybey, bagrec, Martyn Simpson, Gary Philips





Gosh, don't we look "C86"!

Mark and I's collaborative recordings from 1992 are being released by Lens Records on the 14th of July.

I remember back when The Wire was essentially a jazz magazine, but was trying to push the envelope a bit (late 80s I guess) it caused an uproar amongst its readers when it put Michael Jackson on the front cover, many considering it the nadir of a once great mag (for me, that was when Paul Weller made the cover, but I digress)

I think it says something about the essentially conservative nature of much left-field/experimental music that it would doubtless cause much more of a furore if they were to do it today.

Michael Jackson never came over as a particularly likeable bloke to me, but he did make some bloody great records.