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Hi There,

Lee Bates here from `Strange Fashion`

On Saturday one of our regular `fans` brought a copy of your page concerning our 1980 Demo...

So here goes

I did the vocals and lyrics for both tracks (Lee Bates)

The Keyboards were played by Mike Gill

The Guitar was played by Andy Edmondson

Drums and percussion by Tony Parrish

It was recorded at Gateway studio close to Clapham Common in early 1980

I still sing with strange fashion after all these years !

Mike worked for Stock Aitkin and waterman, in latter years,

The last i heard from Mike he was

designing computer software in Scotland.

Tony made drums for Eddie Ryan in Covent Garden, consequentially he had one of

the biggest drum-kits I've ever seen. Tony moved down near camber sands, we lost touch

maybe twenty years ago

Andy now lives in Spain.

The kit used (from memory )

Mike Gill Keyboards, ARP ODYESSEY and GODWIN double manual Organ with Bass Pedals

Andy Played his homemade electric guitar through 2 Marshall 50 watt master volume amplifiers

with 2 X 2 by 12 sloping front Marshall cabs

Andy also played Bass pedals....

Andy`s bass pedal unit was self designed and built...it triggered an ARP AXXE synthesizer and housed

all his guitar effects

Tony used his `Parrish/Ryan battleship drum kit, various cymbals and stands

I still have most of our recordings from about 1979 until the present day, all of which remain unreleased

except for a few airings on various radio shows...

I enclose two further clips, one 6 minute epic from `back in the day`

and a venomous little tune which has aged quite well, both feature Mike and Andy...

You`ll need a bit of patience for the epic, so make yourself a tea....lol

The line-up is very different today, but playing regularly mainly in South East London...

for more info drop me an email...

Cheers

Lee Bates