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[trev]

Hi all you Blessed Ones and Real Festival People and Hawkfans.

"Insect Brain" by the spacerock supergroup MOTHER OF ALL BANDS, featuring Ron Tree (Hawkwind), Judge Trev (Inner City Unit/Space Ritual), Commander Jim Hawkman (Inner City Unit/Spaceritual), John Morgan (Senser), Angelflame (Space Ritual), Richard Lanchester (Here and Now) is now available:

http://www.realfestivalmusic.co.uk/musicinsectbrain.html



Tracks:
Insect Brain - Tree
Meat Eater - Tree/Thoms
War Machine - Tree/Hook
Uber Alles Dolphins - Thoms
Precious - Tree/Thoms
Reflections - Tree/Thoms
Me - Thoms
Yasser - Thoms/Tree
Spirit of the Age - Calvert/Brock

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Real Festival Music
34a Upper Lewes Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 3FH
UK

Price is £10 plus postage UK 50p...Europe £1...Rest of World £1.50

This album was completed in 2003 and since then has been the subject of arguments, betrayals, and legal litigation, you know - the usual.  I am releasing "Insect Brain" privately to you friends, in order to maintain it's "unreleased" status somewhat, to enable a proper release in the future if any record company might be willing to handle it.

Profits from this CDr  will go towards the costs incurred in the management dispute which has prevented it's release up 'til now.

One thing I can say is that I honestly consider this to be my best guitar performance and Ron's best ever vocal performance on record. This album has X factor and is very well recorded and mixed. Fot it to be buried for evermore, as is otherwise possible, would be a crime.

Judge Trev



reviews:

Aural Innovations review :

The Mother Of All Bands - "Insect Brain" 
(unreleased-as yet!) 

>From Aural Innovations #30 (February 2005) 

The Mother Of All Bands features Ron Tree (ex Hawkwind 1995-2002) and Judge Trev Thoms (Inner City Unit), and their musical pasts are in the melting pot of this band's style, but with a lot of fresh new ingredients thrown in too! The album starts with the title track ("Insect Brain") with some pretty unsettling effected laughter (and a tune that reminds me of the Iron Butterfly classic "In-A Gadda Da Vida", but with a whole otherworldy thing going on!). Ron shines from the word go with some true to form eccentric wordplay and subtle alien high pitched backing ("f-f-f focus through my eyes"). It's wonderfully eccentric and something that rocks out too. "Meat Eater Man" is a mid tempo, darker affair with some excellent soloing from Judge Trev as a kind of co-lead vocal guitar, some distorted random words from Ron at the end of the track giving it an almost chaotic feel. "War Machine" thumps in after a news sample discussing the war on terror situation and it's good to hear it in the lyrics ("like the gremlin, mutilation is your toy!"/"world leaders...of death! misery! & pain!"), blistering solo from Judge Trev on this. "Dolphins Uber Alles" sees Trev on lead vocals, which is a nice contrast with a rocking heavy vibe and some rootsy on-fire soloing, cymbals washing into "Precious", which is a trance like pace. I have to mention again Judge Trev Thom's playing as it keeps sliding in and out snake like, very raw but driving it on with Ron Tree at full throttle vocally. "Behind the Mirror" rocks out with some space rock 'n roll, with Ron and Angie (from Spaceritual) singing. I get the feeling this one is about the disconnection of everyday interaction (i.e., the net). An instrumental follows on from a rocker of a track again with Judge Trev singing with deep booming gong hits, a dark brooding instrumental which brings to mind vast dunes of sand at dusk. "Spirit Of The Age 21st Century" is the 'MOAB''s nod and tribute to one Robert Calvert, but rewriting it actually with some manic robotic effected vocals from Ron and the punkiest I've heard it so far! Excellent! This album is brilliant and I was lucky enough to receive a copy from the band to keep to myself. The band are looking for a deal and I honestly think fans of Ron and Trev will simply love this and so too will anyone else looking for something fresh, edgy and wild. If we all make enough noise to the companies who knows? This is a band to definitely keep an eye out for. I think they'll get their music out there as it already sounds like a classic album you'd buy. 

Reviewed by Keith Hill 



The Organ review:

M.O.A.B (Mother Of All Bands) - What

we have here is a Hawkfamily supergroup, indeed the mother of all (or is

that Nik Turner's Space Ritual?). The Hawkfamily have always been much

more than just Hawkwind themselves - the offshoots, friends and relations,

the inner city units and starfighters. Here we have one time I.C.U pilot

Judge Trev Thoms on guitar, we got commander Jim Hawkman on synths and

various compulsory swizz-iii-fiiiiiissss- shhhh spinning noise - insect

noises, the broken call of noise. we got Ron Tree on vocals (fresh from

a seven year space mission with the Baron Brock and the Hawkship), six

legs that become eight with Senser percussionist John Morgan. Classic space

rock that as much rooted (as the band point out themselves) in Cream and

Iron Butterfly as classic 70's Calvert flavoured Hawkwind. They have nailed

down songs drenched in those lyrical Moorcockisms and those killing jokes

- meat eating space formula conspiracy and mad scientific experience. They

have that ability to jam the space jam without ever getting boring or cliched

about it. Red light shooting like gremlin pushing urban guerillas with

a full album on the launch pad ready to fly. Indeed inner city unit urban

guerillas - and it all ends with a rather fine version of Spirit Of The

Age. Go ask The Judge about it over at 



AND THERE CAME THE BEASTS AND KINGS WITH THEIR ARMIES AND THEIR CAPTAINS TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM UPON THE HORSE AND TO MAKE WAR WITH HIS ARMIES AND HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE HE WAS CROWNED WITH MANY CROWNS AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE JUDGES AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE WAGES WAR         http://www.judgetrev.com



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