TMTYL

[Ian Abrahams]

Yes, quite right Steve, I was just taking Bridget's departure as the starting point for them 'officially' being a three-piece though you're right, they were a 3-piece earlier in 91 for the American tour.

--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Steve Youles <youless at COX.NET> wrote:

From: Steve Youles <youless at COX.NET>
Subject: Re: TMTYL
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 2:42 PM

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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:20 +0000, Ian Abrahams 
<ianabrahams1 at YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote:

>They were a three-piece from the end of August 1991, when Bridget played 
her last gig with them at Exeter, until Ron Tree joined on the US tour of 1995.
> 
>Ian
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...all true, but for the North American tour they did in May 1991, the band 
consisted of the core Brock / Davey / Chadwick trio.  In fact Mr. Swann first 
mentioned having seen them at the Hideaway Club in Ontario, and I have the 
following listing for that gig:


Date:  17/5/1991           Musicians: Dave Brock
Town:  St. Catherines                 Alan Davey
Venue: Hideaway                       Richard Chadwick
Set:   Intro; Needle Gun; Treadmill; Time We Left; Heads; Time We Left;
       Starflight; Ejection; Master Of The Universe; Blue Shift; Brainstorm;
       Snake Dance; Night Of The Hawks; Levitation; Instrumental; Right Stuff;
       Golden Void; Hassan-i-Sahba


They played that venue again in 1995 with the same trio + Ron Tree.  But 
going back to 1991, the line-up was pretty fluid with a European tour in March 
& April of the Bemand / Bainbridge / Wishart / Davey / Chadwick band, then 
the aforementioned trio doing the USA & Canada in May 1991, followed by 
Brock / Davey / Chadwick / Wishart playing a few dates around the UK in July 
& August.  After which they reverted to the core trio for additional tours
of 
Europe (Sep-Oct) and the UK (Dec).  What a schedule!

Steve