(c’84) Tony Lawther (vocal) & Mark Draper (sound tech).
This songwriting duo hailed from Bagshot and Windlesham. They laid down 4 tracks: “Bring Back the Love in Your Eyes”, “Lonely Man”, “Why Don’t You tell Me (You Love Me)”, and “Shades of Chinnichap” at Catch 44 Studios, Godalming in early ’84 for a demo. Tim Pollard and Mike Burns of Catch 44 covered the instruments the songwriters couldn’t.
A 5th track, “Give (A Little Love)”, was recorded at John Hamilton’s EQ Studios in Watford by session musicians. The duo got extensive airtime on hospital radio. A further demo cassette recorded on two tape decks in a front room, titled “Scared of Falling in Love” was released in December ’84.
It is believed that Draper is the same ‘kid’ who won the Senior Instrumentalist award at Eagle House School (where Nick Drake was head boy years earlier) near Sandhurst, in ’81.
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