(c’94-’95) Graham Judd (vocals / guitar), Matt Megson (guitar), Gary Clarke (bass / vocals), and Martyn Fowler (drums).
This Aldershot band are not the same as the Toys in the Attic credited with the “White Bird” track on the Taxim Records German release “Various – The Infinite Summer Of Love” [TX 2016 2 TA] in ’94, see the comment below for more of them. But, at one point Fowler spent 6 months in Australia and Darren “Paddy” Thorpe – who’d done time in Explodehead, and Peachrazor – stepped in on drums. On 10 September ’94 the band were part of an all-day event at The Wheatsheaf, Aldershot with Serious Plankton and Skipper.
1 April 1995: Opium Jones, Who Moved the Ground?, Toys in the Attic, and Bloom play Splatch at Civic Hall, Guildford. Source: The Surrey & NE Hants Music Scene
On 1 April ’95, Toys in the Attic played third on the bill at Splatch, held at Civic Hall, Guildford, with Opium Jones, Who Moved the Ground?, and Bloom. That same year Bluefire Records included the bands “Not Like You” as the penultimate track on the Snakebite City Three [BLU06] compilation.
Judd, who’d been in Blue Velvet, and the others spent 24 hours in Vons Studios, Islington with engineer Lee Rumble; recording 3 tracks. These were released as the “Toys Are Us” demo later in ’95. Later in the year the demos opening track “Lost” was included on Farnborough Groove Strikes Back; Vol. 5.
The band changed name to Breaker at some point. Judd went on to form Modern Art Thieves with Paul Morris (ex-West One) and Ady Evans (ex-Blue Velvet) who were both in The Perfect Circles.
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Actually, this band had nothing to do with the “White Bird” track on the Taxim Records “Infinite Summer of Love” album. That was me, along with Cat Taylor on violin and Laurie Amat on vocals. The physical CD came with a booklet that contains a photo of us, as well as the credits. Here’s how it happened:
I had been invited to contribute a track to the album by Michael Molenda, the album’s co-producer. My original intention was to record “White Bird” with Phoenyx, the San Francisco-based Celtic Fusion band I was playing in at the time, which had two women that played electric violin, plus male and female vocals. Perfect instrumentation to cover “White Bird.”
However, that band was in the process of falling apart, so we learned an arrangement and performed it several times (I have at least two performances on video), but never recorded it.
Once the band actually dissolved, I modified the arrangement and played all of the instruments myself (drums, percussion, vibraphone, guitar, and bass), and added the violin and vocal parts Cat and Laurie contributed. I also engineered Cat’s and Laurie’s tracks, while my tracks were recorded at Molenda’s Sound and Vision Studios in San Francisco with someone else engineering. I mixed it myself at Sound and Vision, as well.
Toys In the Attic is the business name I have used for my musical endeavors for many years, so I used that as the band name.
And now I have to listen to this band and find out what they are all about!!
Larry the O
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We will get that updated Larry the O
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It’s cool. It’s easy to see how that happened, and it was all a long time ago. But thanks for making it right! I’ve used Toys In the Attic as a business name for many years, but that was the only music I ever put out under that name.
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