It wasn't always this way. The whole thing started in Wiltshire, with George, a violinist called Andy, and me, playing "ghost-goth". We headed into London, via Reading where we found Gus. He was fresh back from three months in the White Sands desert where he'd developed an addiction to dub music; rather than try to cure him of this we hooked him up with Alex, a drummer with a penchant for liqueous rock, and left them jamming while we looked for a bassist. By the time we found John though, George and Andy had disappeared, taking the folk element of the music with them. Pretty soon we were playing "psychedelic gothic dub".
It was around this time that we met Kicks Joy Darkness, a lovely bunch of post-punksters from the London live circuit. We started renting a basement rehearsal room in Kentish Town which we called The Oubliette on account of its total lack of natural light. That one lasted about two months; we left it covered in KJD's weird marker-pen cartoons and some red paint footprints courtesy of myself. We soon found another place though: Unit 13 on Hackey Marsh, a vast industrial unit with no hot water, no shower and no neighbours, apart from the butchers who turned up at dawn on weeekdays to chuck raw meat about. We decided to take the experiment a step further and actually live there.
Strange times we had. Away put your weapon. By the time we stumbled out of that place, sanity damaged but intact, we had lost Alex, who had moved to New York which was as far as his money would take him from us. Step up Hugo, the newest member of the Souls family, whose intense, tight drums have set our musical compass towards what you are hopefully still listening to.
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