Escapism Is Not Freedom / The Imperfect Race / The Silence / A Hammer / Burn The Witch / 1980’s
Andy Martin, Dave Fanning and Martin Smith appear on this tape courtesy of Chris Low ditto the photos. How much obscure Apostle’s material is out there exactly? And how much of it is stuck away in Chris’s shoebox?
The Apostles are no stranger to this site, and quite a lot of material has already been uploaded and hopefully appreciated, because they were a great band that never quite sounded like any other bands around at the time (or since actually).
The history of the band from the (pre Andy Martin and Dave Fanning) Apostles, Black Cross, Innocent Bystander and Libertarian Youth is too complicated to write up, with many swings and turns along the way, so will not try to attempt it here on this post.
andus
August 29, 2008 at 4:18 pmWe gave up after about 2 songs, on account that our singer was hiding in the toilets, too scared to come on stage
Carl
August 29, 2008 at 4:19 pmDigressing slightly from “concepts of bands” into playing half a gig, I once saw Preston Punk Band “The Genocides” stop playing an open air gig after 4 songs as it started raining and one of the band was electocuted, not fatally, thankfully, but it was pretty cool at the time (1981 ish ! )
Any better than that for a gig not being finished, other than the usual booted off stage kind ?
andus
August 29, 2008 at 4:33 pmI would imagine a band constitutes more than 1 person, with at least 1 person playing a musical instrument. a virtrual band would not count unless the people pretending to be in it really exist, if its a made up band with real people pretending they are in a band, then they have the potential to become a real band. they therefore would qualify as being in band in limbo.
actually, you could have 2 singers playing no musical instruments, now would that qualify as a band or a doublet. is a trio a band or a trio, even more perplexing, what about a band with no humans in it, a band of training monkeys, would that count as a band, what about a band of howling wolves, would they technically be playing musical instruments or not, and again being non-human would they qualify.
andus
August 29, 2008 at 4:41 pmThe Genocides what an excellent name for a band that electrocuted themselves
andus
August 29, 2008 at 4:45 pmNic, I seem to recall the electric being turned off at one of your Napalm Death gigs mid-set, post hoctor-prock, I can’t remember whether you carried on or not.
Nic
September 1, 2008 at 2:13 pmYou’re probably right Andus: I was generally in a state of heavy refreshment, so my memory is a little addled…
🙂
Penguin • Post Author •
September 1, 2008 at 6:29 pm‘cept when it comes to obscure Apostles tracks eh Nic? 😉
Nic
September 2, 2008 at 4:00 pmHaha…we all have our cross to bear, Penguin…
I just f*cking loved that band when I was a nipper…
🙂
Chris
September 3, 2008 at 11:39 pmOn the theme of ‘made up’ bands , when I was doing the ‘entertainments guide’ for Live TV loads of the gig listings i’d feature would be completely made up and always held at the most unlikely venues.
A typical example being: “Death metal descends on The City, with noisy Norwegians ROTTWEILER, CHROME PHALLUS & CATHETER EVISCERATION on stage tonight at Corney & Barrow – from 8 till the walls fall down!” .
Corney & Barrow, needless to say, being a Yuppie Banker wine bar, hopefully descended upon by hordes of death metal fans like some scene from a Romero film 🙂
Penguin • Post Author •
January 26, 2009 at 5:33 pmcrow Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
bet you dont have apostles live at the weaver arms (circa 81?) with moi on drums (&guitar) and ann g zoff on bass….or maybe its already out there…
Hey Crow, do you have a tape of this Black Cross gig you mention above at all or know who may have? I would like to add it to the site AND Andee Martian wrote to me earlier thus:
The entire history of The Black Cross consists of 2 concerts, one in Southend supporting The Sinyx and, over a year later, a second concert at The Weavers Almshouse in Stoke Newington where we were the only band on that night. Sniper (Sgt H) of The Heretics played drums on some of the numbers, Scarecrow played drums on other numbers and I managed to persuade Angie Wynn to do bass guitar duties again – I tried to sing and play guitar at the same time and was atrocious (as usual) but there were a couple of half decent performances and the sound quality was (I believe) fairly good for a change on the one cassette recording that was made of it. Do you know anyone who might have a decent quality copy of this gig?
Thanks in advance…
Martin Cobb
April 29, 2011 at 12:24 pm@ Penguin (August 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm), I’ve got a tape of a rehearsal I did with Lou’s band ‘Ashes of Passion’ around the end of 1984. 4 songs. First rehearsal. Can’t remember who was in the band except Lou (vocals and maybe guitar), me (drums). Happy to burn it to CD and send it off if interested.