The Bevis Frond

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The Bevis Frond
General information
origin London , UK
Genre (s) Alternative rock , psychedelic rock
founding 1986
Current occupation
Nick Saloman
bass
 Adrian Shaw
guitar
 Bari Wats
Drums
 Ric Gunther
guitar
 Paul Simmons
former members
Guitar, vocals
 Rod Goodway
Drums
 Andy Ward
Drums
 Jules Fenton
Drums
 Martin Crowley
singing
 Debbie Saloman
Drums
 Dave Pearce

The Bevis Frond is a British indie rock - band from London that since 1987 26 albums with alternative rock and psychedelic rock released.

history

Nick Saloman, born in 1953, had his first band of the same name while still at school in the late 1960s. After 15 years of local musical work, a serious motorcycle accident gave him the start of a serious professional music career in 1982: with the compensation for an unlit construction site won in a three-year lawsuit against the city of London, he paid off his house and created his own small recording studio. He had 250 copies of his first album pressed more for fun, but the Funhouse Records distributor in Kent called and ordered 500 of them because they were selling well.

Salomans goal was according to his own statement: "I wanted a Hendrix / Wipers / Byrds sound but with a distinctly British feel." The following albums up to 1988 were also recorded in the home studio and published on their own record label Woronzow. Then he got a contract with Reckless Records for Great Britain and the USA.

All early albums were re-released on CD and Reckless Records funded the recording and release of the sixth album, Any Gas Faster (1990), with the band using a professional studio for the first time. From then on the band started touring live. Another album from 1990, Magic Eye , was a collaboration with John Charles Alder, better known as Twink , and his band Pink Fairies . It appeared under the name Bevis and Twink. The next album, New River Head (1991), featured guest musicians Barry Dransfield and David Tibet . 1992 London Stone appeared ; Reckless Records was very dissatisfied with this album. After the break that followed, Saloman decided to release the album on his own Voronzow label. All of the following albums were also released there.

As productive as ever, Saloman continued to release albums until Hit Squad was released in 2004. A few years earlier, he signed a contract with Past and Present for the UK and Rubric Records for the US, remastering and remastering most of the early albums were re-released with bonus tracks.

In February 2010 a download website for The Bevis Frond was started with the aim of making the material collected by Bevis Frond available to music lovers in the best possible quality. In addition, unreleased tracks from Saloman's entire creative period should be made available digitally.

The early albums were usually recorded by the multi-instrumentalist Saloman alone, only the later ones with other band members. Most of the song material and production for the American singer Mary Lou Lord also comes from Nick Salomon and his band. The song Lights Are Changing appeared on the compilation Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976-1995 .

After seven years of creative hiatus, The Bevis Frond released a new album, The Leaving of London, in October 2011 . It was recorded at Golddust Studios with new drummer Dave Pearce as well as Adrian Shaw and Paul Simmons. A European tour was scheduled for the following six months. In January 2012 concerts took place in Germany.

On December 7th, 2018, "We're your friends, man" was the band's 26th studio album, almost 80 minutes long.

Discography

Albums

  • 1987: Miasma (Woronzow Records)
  • 1987: Inner Marshland (Woronzow Records)
  • 1987: Bevis Through the Looking Glass (Woronzow Records)
  • 1988: Acid Jam (Woronzow Records)
  • 1988: Triptych, (Voronzow Records)
  • 1989: Auntie Winnie Album (Reckless Records)
  • 1990: Any Gas Faster (Reckless Records)
  • 1990: Ear Song (Reckless Records)
  • 1991: Magic Eye (Woronzow Records)
  • 1991: New River Head (Woronzow Records)
  • 1992: A Gathering of Fronds (Reckless Records)
  • 1992: London Stone (Woronzow Records)
  • 1993: It Just Is (Woronzow Records)
  • 1994: Sprawl (Woronzow Records)
  • 1995: Superseeder (Voronzow Records)
  • 1996: Son of Walter (Flydaddy Records)
  • 1997: North Circular (Flydaddy Records)
  • 1999: Vavona Burr (Flydaddy Records)
  • 1999: Live At The Great American Music Hall (Flydaddy Records, Live Album)
  • 2000: Valedictory Songs, (Woronzow Records)
  • 2002: What Did For The Dinosaurs (Woronzow Records)
  • 2004: Hit Squad (Voronzow Records)
  • 2011: The Leaving Of London (Woronzow Records)
  • 2013: White Numbers (Woronzow Records)
  • 2018: We're Your Friends, Man (Fire Records)

Singles

  • Sexorcist (1990) Clawfist
  • Snow EP (1991) Voronzow (freely available as a supplement to Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine)
  • High in a Flat (freely available as a supplement to Bucketful of Brains magazine, together with Dream Syndicate)
  • Summer Holiday EP (1993) Vorontsov
  • Let's Live For Today (1994) Helter Skelter
  • Dolly Bug (1995) Damaged Goods
  • Little Town Pier (1997) Spare Me
  • African Violet (B-side of The Steppes) (1998)

Saloman under a pseudonym and collaborations

  • The von Trapp Family - Brand New Thrill single (1980) Vorontsov
  • Room 13 - Murder Mystery single (1982) Vorontsov
  • Nick & Nick and The Psychotic Drivers - Nick & Nick and The Psychotic Drivers (1988) Contempo Records
  • Magic Muscle - Gulp album (1992) Vorontsov
  • Fred Bison Five - Beatroots album (1993) Vorontsov
  • Todd Dillingham & Nick Saloman - Art Into Dust CD (1993) Voiceprint
  • Doctor Frond - Doctor Frond album (1998) Magic Gnome
  • Country Joe McDonald and The Bevis Frond - Eat Flowers and Kiss Babies Album (1998) Vorontsov
  • Scorched Earth - Fed To Your Head album (2001) Vorontsov
  • Mary Lou Lord - "Lights To Change" song on "Mary Lou Lord"
  • Mary Lou Lord - "Baby Blue" album 2004 (Rubric Records).

Web links, sources

Interviews

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Deutschlandfunk from January 21, 2012: “Comeback of an unknown cult band” , accessed on January 22, 2012
  2. ↑ Streaming audio file of the DLF contribution "Comeback of an unknown cult band"
  3. ↑ Andrew Male in Mojo , February 2012, p. 26: “Welcome Back! The Bevis Frond "
  4. ↑ Booklet from Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995 , published 2005 on Rhino Records
  5. ^ "Old Saint Nick" Saloman's Bevis Frond gets reissued by Rubric
  6. ^ Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976–1995 . Allmusic . Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Energy burst with space rock, psychedelic and grunge."