(c’90-94) Lindsay Jamieson (drums), Kevin Jamieson (vocals), and Nick Hannan (bass).
Out of the ashes of Jim Jiminee came Fleet’s The Deep Season. Their first known gig was at The Buzz Club, West End Centre, Aldershot – while After the Dream supported Explodehead, along with The Screaming Benders, This Witness, and Cow played the main hall; The Deep Season played the bar area. Ten days later, on 16 April, Deep Season headlined Buzz Club with After the Dream and This Witness in support.
Later in ’90 they self-released the eponymous “The Deep Season E.P. [Blah 001] on their Blah Records label. On 8 March ’91, The Deep Season played the Bull & Gate, Kentish Town and later in the month, on 23 March ’90, were at The Buzz Club again with Cow, The Cygnet Rings and Who Moved the Ground? That same year they released the 12″ “Fields of Joy E.P.” [blah 002], which was produced by Guy Chambers. It was back to the Bull & Gate on 5 July ’91, headlining as far as we are aware with The Blue Birds, and The Ammonites in support; and again on 4 October ’91, with Sugar House and Sweet Life, at Pop Club. Moving to Integrity Records late in ’91 they released the “Loony Tunes” [Integrity 001] 12″ EP just before Christmas ’91. They pushed this heavily in the lead up to Christmas ’91 with gigs at the Orange Club, West Kensington; Splash Club, King’s Cross; and, on Christmas Eve, the Apple Club, The Compasses, Egham.
The Buzz Club had the band headlining once again on 9 May ’92 for a local band night, supported by Giant Arc, Flavour and Pomeroy. Interest from Columbia resulted in ’93’s “Island Monkeys” LP and the “Evergreen” EP [COL 660 751-2] in ’94, which was re-released in 2017. Columbia’s promotion work got “Lovesome Day” from the LP some radio play on Belgium Delta Radio/Bilzen 5 and “Evergreen” on Radio LAC/Geneva S and on S Couleur 3/Lausanne G in Switzerland. The band also visited Austin, Texas, for South by South West (SXSW), in ’94 playing at the Ritz and Scholz Garten.
As far as we know the band split in ’94; although the band members did later produce and provide backing for Perry Rose’s album “The Bright Ring of the Day”. After Deep Season, Lindsey Jameson was also in Supermodel, Departure Lounge, and Astronaut Pushers just before joining Ben Folds in 2005. Hannan joined his brother Patrick “Patch” Hannan at Blah Street Studio. Patch played drums for The Sundays, Star 69 and Arnold. While there, Hannon appeared on a number of albums for a variety of artists, including Arnold, Jack Henderson and Bennett. Hannon may have moved to Sidmouth.
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