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Earth Terminal Studios, Snailslynch
(c’93-date) These recording studios were based in The Kiln, Snailslynch, near Farnham, and run by Luke Baldry of Beautiful People fame, and available for recording, mixing and mastering work, and would often be referenced as Earth Terminal Music.
Front of Vox Pop’s single. Woking’s own Vox Pop recorded a number of tracks at Earth Terminal Music in June ’93 with Cor Blimey! and Pretty Impossible, both produced by Baldry along with the band, making it onto 7″ vinyl as Detour Records’ double A-sided DR007. The third track, Dear Diary, appeared on volume two of Bluefire Records’ Snakebite City compilation series the following year.
UK progressive rock band, Credo recorded their first LP at the studio in ’94, releasing the Field of Vision CD on Cyclops [CYCLO12] and SPV GmbH [SPV 084-15432] in September ’94. The Mish Mash label released Just Can’t Stop and Feel My Love by Sentinel [MMS 001] in ’95; with Baldry listed as the engineer.
Around 2007/8 the studio moved out of the GU postcode to The Hop Kiln, Hillside, Odiham. It later dropped the studio part of the name and went by Earth Terminal; where they have recorded S.C.U.M., Hope of the States, Jim Bob, Petula Clark, Lost Alone, Nosferatu, Mute, and Rough Trade, amongst others.
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The Kiln, Snailslynch image is © Oast House Archive and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence 
The Kiln, Snailslynch image is © Oast House Archive and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence 
The Kiln, Snailslynch image is © Oast House Archive and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence 
Back of Vox Pop’s single. 
Back of Credo’s LP. 
Beautiful People, Bluefire Records, Credo, Cyclops, Detour Records, Earth Terminal, Earth Terminal Music, Earth Terminal Studios, Farnham, Hope Of The States, Jim Bob, Lost Alone, Luke Baldry, Mish Mash, Mute, Nosferatu, Odiham, Petula Clark, Rough Trade, S.C.U.M., Sentinel, Snailslynch, Snakebite City, SPV GmbH, Vox Pop, Woking -
Fated
(c’92) ? (?)
This Alton band released a positively reviewed 3-track demo cassette, carrying Passing Place, Visionary Days, and Lightening Sky; in March / April ’92.
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Farnham Herald’s Off the Record column reviewed Fated’s demo cassette in April 1992. Picture courtesy of Steve Hack -
Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band
(c’11-26) – John Blacklidge (band master), William Eede (bugler), and ?
Sometime between 1891 and ’11, a concert was held at Cranleigh’s old Village Hall to raised money for uniforms to kit out the Cranley Brass Band. George V’s Coronation Day, 22 June ’11, is our first noted performance of Cranley Brass and Reed Band (note the old spelling of Cranleigh). At some point in ’14 the band won a competition. On 19 July ’19 Cranleigh celebrated Peace Day, and in the intervals between sports events and performances at Knowle during the afternoon, the Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band provided music.
The combined choirs of the village’s two churches, augmented by members of the Choral Society, performed Handel’s Zadok the Priest, accompanied by the band. Our next encounter was on 13 November ’21, when a memorial service was organized by the Pal’s Club ex-servicemen’s organization, which was followed by a procession to the War Memorial, in which the Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band joined, and the band’s bugler, Eede, sounded Last Post and Reveille.
The first-ever Cranleigh Rectory Fete was held on 28 June ’22 – a Wednesday because it was early-closing day – at which the band performed. In ’24, according to the Parish Magazine, the Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band ‘was again reaching a high standard under Mr Whaley’ and at the Rectory Fete ‘in the gloaming, discoursed most sweetly’! October ’26 saw the band accompanying hymns at Harvest Festival evensong, after which we lose track of the band.
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The Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band c’14. Photograph by Walter Corin, courtesy of Vera Wilkinson via Cranleigh Magazine 
The Cranleigh Brass and Reed Band c’21/’22. Eede thirds from left centre row. Image courtesy of Vera Wilkinson via Cranleigh Magazine -
Ferrari Red
(c’81) ? (?)
Other than a single gig flyer (on which their name was misspelt as Friary Red) for a CND benefit gig at The Wooden Bridge, Guildford, on 7 November ’81, where Ferrari Red and The Frotteurs supported headliners The Drowning Craze; we know nothing about this local band. But they were not the same band as Ferrari Red & the Revettes.
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Flyer from 1981 for a CND benefit gig at the Wooden Bridge. Friary Red was a misprint – the band was actually Ferrari Red. -
The Cranley Hotel, Cranleigh
Around 1910, Cranleigh’s Railway Hotel moved to the Dutch gabled brick building, on The Common, Cranleigh, off Guildford Road; changing its name to The Cranley Hotel in 1929. In the 1980’s a number of bands appeared at the venue following an appeal by the then landlord which appeared in a number of local music columns.
Flow Motion played at The Cranley many times c’83/84, and The Flying Tigers did the odd gig there in mid 80’s, as well as a gig under another name when joined by Dave Gallagher & Bertie Licorice. Another band to respond were The Innocence who performed there in ’84 to 9 people, including the staff and the band member’s girlfriends. On 29 March ’84, the Desperate Remedies duo performed there, and in April the next year, Kalibre embarked on the ‘Load n’ Live’ tour encompassing numerous local venues, including The Cranley Hotel on 5 April ’85.
In 2017 The Serial Thrillers graced the venue and today the hotel hosts the occasional soloist.
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5 April 1985: Kalibre play The Cranley Hotel, Cranleigh. Picture courtesy of Kevin Procter 
The Cranley Hotel in Cranleigh. -
Second Balcony Jump
(c’86-’87) Paul Pomery (bass), Nick Murton (drums) and ?.
Probably named for the Billy Eckstine and Gerald Valentine written track that appeared, in late ’62, on Dexter Gordon’s Go LP, we first hear of Second Balcony Jump at a Buzz Club local band night on 15 November ’86. Here they supported Steel Bill and the Buffaloes, FRA, and West One, at the West End Centre, Aldershot, with The Jeremiahs being added late. Two months later, on the 10 January ’87, the band were back at The Buzz Club supporting The Brilliant Corners and Bluetrain.
Between these two Buzz Club appearances, on 21 December ’86, they supported Mega City Four at The Old Schoolhouse, Woking. They went on to support both Jim Jiminee and International Resque at Fleet Football Club, and later morphed into Pomeroy.
Bassist Pomeroy who’d also been in Black Easter.
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15 November 1986: Flyer for Steel Bill and The Buffaloes supported by West One, FRA, and Second Balcony Jump. Source: West One 
10 January ’87, Second Balcony Jump openned for The Brilliant Corners and Bluetrain at the Buzz Club. Aldershot, Billy Eckstine, Black Easter, Bluetrain, Buzz Club, Dexter Gordon, Fleet Football Club, FRA, Gerald Valentine, International Resque, Jim Jiminee, Mega City Four, Nick Murton, Paul Pomeroy, Pomeroy, Second Balcony Jump, Steel Bill and the Buffaloes, The Brilliant Corners, The Jeremiahs, The Old Schoolhouse, West End Centre, West One, Woking -
Overdrive Records
Overdrive was a UK label based out of a house on Upper Weybourne Lane, Farnham, before moving to Bristol and may have been a personal label. We have tracked three 7″ releases to date all by Richard Ashworth, backed by White Dub: M3 Revisted [ORDER 1] from ’78, Surrey Skyline [ORDER 2] released in ’79, and Babes in the Wood [ORDER 3] published in ’80.
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Front cover of 1978s “M3 Revisted” by Richard Ashworth and White Dub 
Back cover of 1978s “M3 Revisted” by Richard Ashworth and White Dub 
Sleeve front of 1979’s “Surrey Skyline” by Richard Ashworth, and White Dub 
Sleeve back of 1979’s “Surrey Skyline” by Richard Ashworth, a d White Dub 
Sleeve front of 1980’s “Babes in the Wood” by Richard Ashworth with White Dub. 
Back sleeve of 1980’s “Babes in the Wood” by Richard Ashworth with White Dub. -
Ice Cold Beer Company (I.C.B.C.), Woking
Sat on the Goldsworth Road, ICBC was a general meeting point for nights out in the 1990’s, but it also tried its hand at being a live venue – although we can only trace two ICBC gigs currently. The first was on 14 November ’94 when Weaver performed at the venue; the second was four years later, on 21 March ’98, when Guildford band Mindwire along with Catching Flys and Puskas took to the ‘stage’.
Just West of Woking Town Centre it had many incarnations over the years including the Rock & Roll Kitchen c’2012 when The Farleys played the venue on 19 May, Bar Nation, Scratched (c’2004), Barcelona (c’2007), and Duvals. Its final hurrah was as Mojos which closed in 2013. It remained closed ever since and was due to be demolished as part of the town centre regeneration project, which was approved in January 2022.
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14 November 1994: Weaver played ICBC, Woking. Source: Neil Barker via Pete Cole 
Mindwire Mailer #3 from 1998. Source: Mindwire 
ICBC’s later incarnation Scratched c’2004 -
Limelight Recording Studios, Aldershot
(c’87-88) In an area, off to the left of the main entrance of the West End Centre, Aldershot was Limelight Recording Studios, run and operated by one Brian ? and his wife, who had come to Aldershot from London, where they’d “worked in the music business”.
It housed an 8-track set up. The F1-11s recorded a 2-track demo there in the summer of ’87, as did West One at some point.
Brian, who was Welsh, was aided by massive Marc Bolan fan Terrence, who reportedly had changed his name by deed poll to Terrence Rex – How true this is we do not know.
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Carpenters Arms, Camberley
When the Carpenters Arms was built, it was surrounded by residential property. Today, sat on the corner of Park Street and Princess Way, Camberley it is retail that dominates. Now a Greene King pub it hosted bands in the ’80s and 90’s, and reportedly still does today.
Our knowledge of bands who performed there is limited but we do know that on 28 June ’93, Who Moved the Ground? played at the venue. Then a few years later, in ’98, the Carpenter’s Arms, hosted Mindwire for an acoustic set on 26 March; the band returning on 4 April with The Simon Bell Band.
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Mindwire Mailer #3 from 1998. Source: Mindwire 
Carpenters Arms, Camberley
Our Soundscene 
Human beings takes me back to 1981. Followed them all over the Surrey reading area for a year a great band and 3 good guys playing well written songs of the era. I wish john Tim and steve well what ever they are doing now. Should reform for a few shows just like Oasis but do the wooden bridge.
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