In the early eighties, Errol Dynamic aka The Honourable Ted escaped the clutches of Newcastle's psychedelic punk band, Crawling Chaos www.Crawling Chaos.co.uk and went on reconnaissance to Manchester. Curiously abandoned, he began drumming for The Savages Of The Amazon Twang which begat Tools You Can Trust, to which he later collaborated on their much approved John Peel sessions.
During this time studying piano and composition at Salford Tech, he formed the Avant Gardeners with fellow Savage, Ken Marley (who later became a double bass playing jazz composer - www.kenmarley.com and songwriter Rhodes Middleton,who then became Implied Consent. Not wanting to have all his eggs in one basket, he answered a call of nature and was quickly recruited into the warm embrace of Marc Riley's The Creepers, who were also John Peel favourites.
Implied Consent released their first single, 'Nobody In Particular' on the Creepers' Intape Records label. In 1985 Implied Consent became Bargepole. Through the Creepers' distributors Red Rhino, they released 'Sodbuster' on the Ediesta label. Ted and Rhodes took a sabbatical to spend time writing new material and building a recording studio.
Metamorphasising into The Blazing Snowmen during the nineties, Ted and Rhodes spent much time playing live and promoting alternative cabaret shows, The Sleeping Policeman's Rubber Ball and Night Ot The Short Straws in such lugubrious and charmed Manchester drinking establishments as, The Marble Arch, Britons Protection and Jim's Cafe(Burnley), where we first met Phil Duncan, bass player for Scribble.
The Snowmen were also privileged to be in the talented and capable hands/ears of John Gill(1950-2003),formerly of the Mekons/Edward II & the Red Hot Polkas and Brass Monkey, for engineering and production master-classes, along with Phil Duncan. Phil, a valve and analogue aficionado and also at the helm of our Psychophonic studio, engineers & plays on sessions for our 'in-house' bands: Snowmen, Stepbros, Suns of Potto and the occasional stray musician, sheltering from the wind(we suggest Rennie). Bill Leader has also been sitting in on sessions for our forthcoming album, 'Demons Are Forever' for production and coaching and cups of tea
