There were a couple of versions of K-Line that knocked around in rehearsal rooms in various parts of London before the line-up that most of you know about got together and starting gigging and recording. The very first one featured me on guitar & vocals with Scott Stewart on drums and Micha Meisterling on bass. 1 or 2 rehearsals in, Scott (who was playing guitar in the VERY mighty, Dead Inside), enlisted Paul Symes - also from Dead Inside - to come in on 2nd guitar. Soon after that Micha announced he was moving back to Germany for work reasons and so I asked my old partner in crime, Paul Duncan, to join on bass.

This line-up of Paul, Paul, Scott and me was together for maybe 6 months. We wrote a bunch of songs and rehearsed sporadically. There was even talk of where to play our first show. After a while though it became apparent that Paul & Scott were getting too busy touring with Dead Inside to play in K-Line too so we decided to bring a 4-track along to the next rehearsal and record what we had for posterity. I added the vocals later at home. The songs below are the result of that exercise.

 

 Layers: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Stay Poor: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Start To Try (December Grey): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Manifest Destiny: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Days of Empire: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Where's Evolution?: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Fragile: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

• Ed Wenn - Vocals & guitar
• Paul Duncan - Bass
• Scott Stewart - Drums
• Paul Symes - Guitar

All in all they are a bunch of promising, but very rough and mostly unfinished songs; a glimpse if you like into where this line-up may have headed had we tightened up and started playing. They’re a bit noodly in places and not direct enough, but this was all pretty embryonic stuff. At the time I was gutted that Paul & Scott left, but then I wasn’t to know that James, Zac and later Rich, were just around the corner. Looking back on it now I’m honoured to have played with Paul & Scott bearing in mind where Dead Inside & later Bullet Union went; 2 very talented men.

If you’re a K-Line fan you’ll recognise Stay Poor, but nothing else. If you’re a Liquidman fan you’ll have worked out that the lyric to Start To Try is almost identical to December Grey. I still wished we’d worked on Layers (one of my fave songs) and possibly Fragile with the final K-Line line-up, but Zac didn’t want to sing any of my lyrics for whatever reason and so Stay Poor remains the only song from this first incarnation that we took further.