EVIL TWIN - ProfilesArchive

About Me

formed after Shock Headed Peters briefly died from cancer of the soul; alongside British Racing Green and The Greater Good. Evil Twin was the uniting of Karl Blake and David Mellor, who had met when Lemon Kittens (karl blake plus Danielle Dax) recorded in Surrey University in March of 1980 and again later .. answering an advert in the Melody Maker for free studio time posted by Mellor, who was a student eager for experience. They were informed that due to abuse of this opportunity by local bands - it would be neccessary to charge ten pounds for those 8 hours - which would start at 6pm and end at 2am - approximately. (Dax and Blake would then take the first train of the morning back to Reading, Berks where the group had formed in april, 1978). Later, Blake got Mellor in to do some work on his album 'Lunatic Dawn Of The Dismantler' his side-project released under the name The Underneath. Evil Twin was born in October, November, 1988 and started the recording process immediately, in a small studio flat just off Bloomsbury Square (they were a Bloomsbury Group ;-}...) - the cd. recording was completed by 1991 - it having been done in approximately 3 hour stints every other week when possible to fit around Blakes railway job and the other groups rehearsals.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/11/2006
Band Website: NONE YET
Band Members: KARL BLAKE, DAVID MELLOR, with the principal vocal assistance of Amy Rodenburg, as well as that of Mary Storm (nee-Svirsky) and Ruth Bayer. (Also the cello of Sarah Bradshaw on one piece). Live (one gig so far - earlier this year (2006) in Paris) featured a band consisting of Blake (vocals,electric guitar), Mellor (vocals, semi-acoustic guitar, keyboard(?), Rodenburg (vocals, percussion), plus Johnny B. (bass, now ex-Naked Ruby, currently the No Frills Band ), Simon King (guitar, from SuperStrings), Dave Smith (drums, from Guapo and Miasma) and Maja Eliot (keyboards - from some group or other) and guest appearance on one song by Sarah Bradshaw (cello).
Influences: errr - every prog band that we ever heard plus any other type of music that swam into our field of experience - examples - United States of America / White Noise / The Dave Clark Five / The Pointer Sisters / Faust / The Doors / Matt Munro / The Edgar Winter Band / MORE TO FOLLOW
Sounds Like: errr - the cd is very very long and we sound like nothing you ever heard and everything you ever heard. As i said, Faust, Deep Purple, The Doors, test card music, musak, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matt Munro, Guy Mitchell, Emerson, Lake and Palmer (a few notes maybe), hard rock, Henry Cow, bubblegum, the sound of plastic melting and the attendant flames.
Record Label: unsigned - Livesey (artists own).

My Blog

EVIL TWITS - MOO-ZIK

YES - THE FULL TEN FOR YOUR EARS TA LISTEN TOOO - JUST OVER HALF [BY ONE] THE ORIGINAL ALBUM - 'THE BLACK SPOT' - HOPE YOU WILL RUSH OUT AND BUY IT WHEN IT GETS RE-RELEASED - AND ALSO BUY ITS LONG AWA...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:25:00 GMT

oh, look - lemon kittens are back on here...

.....yes, but they haven't got any music up - still, if you are on the old one the psycho that runs both [except he can't do anything with the old one - hence the new one] has asked that people jump s...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:24:00 GMT