(c’82-’84) Alan Neve (vocals) Tim Avory (drums) Grahame Monty (bass) and ? Solomon (guitar).

The Consenting Adults‘ Neve, Soloman and Avory coalesced with Monty to form Burst Out Laughing, who played at The Royal, Guildford and Cricketers, Westfield. Clive Searle joined the band on guitar, possibly replacing Solomon, at some point.

Managed by Nils Stevenson, who also managed Siouxsie and the Banshees, one of their gigs at the Cricketers saw Rob Pursey (Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69’s younger brother) take a dislike to Avory’s drum kit and ‘wrestled’ with it. Their ‘3 Titles’ demo cassette carried a 7″ and 12″ version of “Love Intervention” and a third track titled “Medley”.

Searle and Monty would form Indigo Swing in March ’84, out of the ashes of Burst Out Laughing. Avory is the nephew of The Kinks drummer Mick Avory. Neve, who went on to work as an auditor at the Performing Right Society (PRS), is sadly no longer with us following a traffic accident in London on 15 July 2013.

Gallery:

Short piece on Burst Out Laughing from the Bitch Bitch fanzine, Issue No1, Pg3. Picture courtesy of John Hudson
Burst Out Laughing demo cassette. Picture courtesy of Alan Fred Pipes