Rich Matthews and I have started up a new band to play on a very intermittent basis in the interests of getting together every now and then to make a racket and have a good time. We’ll primarily be playing a collection of older songs (from Sink mainly, but also some Chocolate, the original Liquidman, You Disgust Me and possibly a couple of K-Line songs to which I wrote the lyrics…although the K-Line is doubtful because I can’t sing like Zac). Rich’s mate Tom (ex of Colour Code) and Damion Rice - my filmwasters.com buddy and ex-Killerest Expression - will be on drums and bass respectively.
The initial idea came about when DS kindly asked me to play an acoustic set as an opener for the ’secret’ Snuff gig in Cambridge back in August. I didn’t fancy doing an acoustic set, but asked if we could do a one-off band thing and play some old songs. DS was up for it so Rich and Tom & I had a couple of rehearsals and opened up the night. We enjoyed it so much and people were so positive about it that we decided to play a few more gigs.
The first one is back at The Portland Arms on Saturday December 19th with Damion joining on bass and Rich switching back to guitar. If you’re interested in seeing us play then get in touch…especially if you can put us on. We have gigs in Leamington Spa and Kingston in the works, but no dates confirmed yet.
[Liquidman history: A few years ago I got together with John Ruscoe and two good friends, Damion & Sid, from The Killerest Expression to knock out a one-off studio project. The new band needed a name so we resurrected Liquidman]
Josh did us proud and the night was a huge success. I was on my own so no Jacqui on hand to take photos or record any video. I’m trying to track some down though, so something may appear here in the future. I really enjoyed my set & feel I’m finally getting to the point where I can concentrate on the performance rather than freaking out with nerves or concentrating so hard on playing the songs that I forget about trying to entertain. The sound onstage was perfect and that really helped me relax with the vocals. Nice! Duncan was excellent; probably the best I’ve seen him so far.
About years ago Graham kindly transferred an old Sink live vid from VHS to DVD for me. The plan was to rip it and get some of the better moments up online. 5 years later and I’ve only just managed the first 2 songs I don’t think there’s any other video of Sink on t’Internet so I hope you enjoy them.
It was a weird gig audience-wise so the performance is fairly low-key (in other words I was sulking!), but it does mean that we actually played the songs pretty well for the most part. The camera was closest to John so you can hear his guitar way louder than mine…again, not a bad thing.
The clip jumps about for the first few seconds, but then settles down.
This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper’s book, “Trapped In A Scene”. Eventually I’ll add some details about the recording and artwork, but for now here are the songs.
This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper’s book, “Trapped In A Scene”. Eventually I’ll add some details about the recording, but for now here is the track.
I don’t think there’s any other video of Sink on t’Internet so I hope you enjoy them.
