(c’84-85) Steve Cutmore (vocals), ? Lunn (?), John Sturton (keyboards) and ? (?).

This Reading based band released the ‘Sanctuary’ single (IHH001) in April ’84 on their own label, via Oxford based agency Seyscan, where they were managed by Colin Badger and Nigel Grant. This was recorded Blackwing Studios, London and engineered by John Fryer; as was the b-side track “Never Again”. According the response to an interview question posed by Roque of Cloudberry Cake Proselytism v.3 to Cutmore: “Sanctuary was inspired by the story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, combined with how I felt living in eighties UK in the age of greed and the rule of Thatcher,…and a spiritual aspect of myself”

On 21 April ’84 the band appeared with Last Chance to Dance and Zero Zero at the Easter Disco, held at the Community Centre, Frimley. The single was then re-released by EMI (EMI15494) in September that same year. The band later renamed as Wilderness and released a second single, ‘True Life’ (EMI5523) on 7″ and 12″ in ’85.

Tracks:


Sanctuary – https://soundcloud.com/wokingsoundscene/sanctuary-in-hill-house

Gallery:

Sanctuary, via Seyscan, single sleeve front
Sanctuary, via Seyscan, single sleeve back
Flyer insert (front) from promo copy
Flyer insert (back) from promo copy
Sanctuary on EMI
Soundscene 10th May 1984
21 April 1984: Last Chance to Dance, In Hill House, and Zero Zero played the Easter Disco at the Community Centre, Frimley. Picture courtesy of Steve Excell