Early gigs featured Barry and Simon Tuohy (The Pink Pointy Twins: metal), Quentin (once: at the Bat & Ball Jam Night in Southborough: blues rock) and later Dan Whaley on assistant lead guitar duties for the early gigs (which led directly to a much more late 50s/early 60s guitar instrumental sound a la Wray/Dale). About this time Nifty started his inevitable descent into 'space rock' - inevitable as that's where he'd started out back in Quagmire (see Quag II: see link at bottom of this page) in 1973. Still later, 2 years of gigs [with them] resulted in virtually the whole of Mumm-ra guesting at gigs as the Nifty Nettes on backing vocals and Carl Gent as sitarist extraordinaire for the 'acoustic slots', with Tate, Oli (of Mumm-ra) and James (of Veldt) helping out on 'lead guitar' occasionally (and Fill Mills in Holland when we were there...), and Niall and 'Mad' Jon guesting on bass for the legendary Harpers' Bar fiasco gig (without Fabian but with Flossie and Lauren and a bemused girl whose birthday it was). Fabian left after 8 fabulously hard formative years, at the same time Flossie and Lauren also resigned (after Imogen's 13th Birthday Party Gig with Mumm-ra and the infamous split bass skin on the drumkit) and Nicki Sarzi took to the stage for the first time since 1986 as official vocalist leading to the nascent The Ghost Lilacs acoustic slots at gigs featuring Carl Gent (when Mumm-ra were on the bill). Dave Leeds joined (with Mark Bennett of How Soon? Sweet Achilles depping for a year when Dave disappeared, and then Fabian returned again, now gone again). Whilst trying to be 'psychedelic' (in Nifty's eyes) and attempting to write and perform a 'rock opus firefly-us/where's the fire extinguisher?' single-handed without a contract or a day job, the Glo-Pilots often ended up playing frenetically 'fast stuff' that not even Iggy Pop would want to sing to. Not to be forgotten is the synth'ing at a couple of the gigs in 2006 of Piers Eason, Supreme Commander of The Alien Piers Organisation, and youngest Glo-Worm at the age of 12 (and a year later drummer of the newly rekindled Skinbat Scramble). And so the fire-flies continue to burrow and coinfuse the monetary moles...
This website has a few of our tracks on it, featuring both rehearsal tapes, live performances and studio takes. We have 2 CDs (Last/First, Glo-Balisation released so far, and another final one, Ezo-Teric [coming around Springtime 2009 at this rate]) but you could always just coast on over to the Aural Innovations website (they are a 'top friend' of ours so it shouldn't be too hard for any of you to find) who from time to time feature tracks of our stuff on their Space Rock and Drool Trough webcast shows. If you see tracks by Coochie's Bream and Skinbat Scramble there... well, they are 'sister bands' (as are The Ghost Lilacs) to the Glo-Pilots and therefore feature me, and sometimes Fabian and Steven as well (and Nicki Sarzi of course...).
Also, we are now on ITunes.
There you go, I hope that covers most aspects of what we do and have done,
Yours Spacily,
Nifty
Links to:
The Ghost Lilacs Skinbat Scramble Quag II Infra Red and the Ultra Violets Coochie's Bream The Limitations The Outer Limits Oddness Off Licence Sons of Quag Sons of Blob
Head on over to the Alien Piers Organisation website , in order to securely buy Glo-Pilots CDs.