L-R:
Floyd L., Cosmic, Phil Williams, Ryan Keates.
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Kill My Soul
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This was kind of a proto-Unit. We were all old school mates, but we were at
Uni when we decided to form a band (Summer of '93). Phil had played bass for
years (He used to play double bass in the County Youth Orchestra with me and
bass in all the school bands) and I'd been playing guitar for a couple of
years and had started writing tunes. Didn't know any drummers (still don't,
obviously) so I started learning how to programme beats on a drum machine.
Ryan just invited himself in, basically. He'd only been playing guitar a few
months and we hadn't intially planned for him to be in it, but what the
hell. Cosmic was the only guy we knew who was prepared to sing and that was
the line up. The first track we actually did together was "The Blue Veined
Bossa" under the name The Narly Undesirables Of Bossa Nova, which had Cosmic
on flute, and Dr. Steve on keys, but then the Metal stylings began in
earnest.
We only ever gigged at private parties, but we wrote and recorded quite a
lot. We released a 10-track album "Grow" and probably demoed about another
15 tunes, but Phil was living over the other side of the country and Cosmic
might as well have been (no change there then) so a parting of the ways was
inevitable. We replaced them with Ross on vocals and Glyn on bass, but by
that time my enthusiasm was waning and by the end of '95, it was time to
move on.
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