Sleeping Pictures consists of Marc Blackie and Gary Parsons, who met whilst both living in South London in the mid-ninties. The band was first of all a more noisy/experimental affair, but thanks to chance meetings, concerts and collaborations the pair began a fitful affair with the neo-folk genre, which saw the release of their first album "Nether Edge", with contributions from Hunter Barr, John Murphy, Renee Rosen, Tony Wakeford and Matt Howden.
This was followed with a session largely comprising of new material for French radio, but soon the band realised that they found the neo-folk genre too restricting and so these songs where largely scrapped in favor of a new direction, which can be heard on the "Many Hands Should Throw Stones" album.
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MARC BLACKIE//VOCALS & LYRICS
Marc's musical career began in his mid teens with the band "Defacato". This was a three piece noise based band, who gigged occasionally around London. Marc left to begin work on his own solo project "Ophedia" a few recordings of which where passed on to Gary, leading to the pair meeting.
Apart from the recordings with Sleeping Pictures, Marc now records under the name "These Papercuts" and has also been involved in a number of other projects including "Lark Blames" with Lloyd of Naevus.
He also works extensively as a photographer and has had his work displayed in many exhibitions and photo anthologies.
Recently he has completely failed to learn Japanese.
GARY PARSONS//MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS & SONG COMPOSITION
Gary started playing music in the early eighties, firstly with plodding prog-rock band "Magnitogorsk" then moving through uber-goth "Shadow of Fear before crumbling into the void and joining psychedelic space outfit "Vulcan Death Grip".
At the start of the nineties, Gary began working under the name "Static", leading to the releases "What's Your Social Disease?", "Speak No Evil" and "Four Cymbals". A journey to Australia saw Gary playing with Beastianity and on his return to the UK he soon met Marc and Sleeping Pictures where formed.
Recently Gary played guitar, percussion and backing vocals on the Sol Invictus album "The Devil Steed" and also played guitar and piano on the Sol track "Light the Candle" from "Writ in Water" released by Prerecordings.
