The 1st seeds are sown

Not sure how many more Garden related titles I can keep going with but still. It was a successful session in The Garden last night, culminating in a good practise of 4 tunes for Fatter, Richer, Wiser - Man Who Runs The Funk, Desmond Dime, Opaque Shapes & Out Of Control. All of which are coming together as it were. Also Disconia a potential new track started life. It may of course get dropped but we'll have to wait till next practise. Vic will be joining us next time on vocals hopefully fulltime so Bins and Sensieve don't need to shout. It was also a good debut for the new analog Korg, given us a slightly new wave sound and ideal for 8min prog rock middle eights. Obviously Steve was late for the rehersal, clearly too important, even after we promised a loan Mercedes SLK to drive him the 10mins from the station once he'd gone to Costcutter for Beer, Lemonade (for the drivers) and cheap sandwiches. What a rider.

Will all be rosy in the Scree garden?

Scree are heading back into the studio again, except this time there heading to The Garden, a decent studio based near Guildford. The Fleecemeister and Bins checked it out today and the facilities are decent, a marked improvement over what we were using and perhaps the magic of Underhedge can be recreated. We head there on the 28th June to start getting down to making the tracks tight. However we will be doing it without the funk groove of The Cat who is moving back to Derby. Vic is also out of action on the 28th but will be taking up full time vocal duties from July. No doubt The Cat will be back for guest appearances.

We'd also like to quash rumours that Steve has left the band for Muse. This is not true. Steve is too busy turning bread into wine for such other band pursuits.

Scree Break Top 20 and new band cymbals...

Opaque Shapes finally finished 20th in the overall chart and 5th in the Rock chart last week, a further climb of 19 places. Amazing. In other news the paper thin and now broken cymbals have been replaced by some Paiste 101's, new Hi-Hat, Ride and Crash. Plus the addition of a cowbell, specifically for a particular line in Opaque Shapes.... First to guess wins a prize*

* or not.

Scree Break Top 40!

The newly recorded Opaque Shapes broke into the Top 40 on the Overplay Chart at the end of last week finally ending up at No.39. Currently sitting pretty in the Top 40 again this week although it's early days as they say, somewhere....

Also Eddie's been onto us and declared us as sh1t, shocking. Jealousy is such a bad trait.

Polyphonic Scree

Last night Scree recorded 4 new versions of tracks past and present with the extended Scree line-up. The Rythmic Fleece Dave Dawson joined us on Drums, Vic Collins on Vocals and 'The Cat' was back to lay down the funk law on Man Who Runs The Funk. All new tracks are available on Overplay (follow the link to the side). You can also leave comments and reviews on the Overplay site. The session recordings are even of a slightly higher quality with us having 2 microphones instead of one, thanks to the mysterious Mr Cymbal. Speaking of which the Scree drum kit is in need of some new one's due to the furious beats being produced and not at all to do with the cheapness of the cymbals, oh no, but then as you all know EVERY cymbal is unique....(even shite ones). Join us later where we tell how Eddie Veddir of Pearl Jim fame had to wait outside the studio for us to finish, he said it can only happen 'Once' and it was him 'Vs' Scree and that 'Jeremy' spoke in the studio today.

Fatter, Richer, Wiser - Back in the Studio

Yes it would appear we have a date in which we are re-entering our new London based studio. It's not quite the mighty Underhedge on Portland where the magic happened nor the Paradiso nightclub but still. I believe a USB mic, a laptop, plus some instruments makes a studio these days. Joining the Scree regulars are the Fleecemeister who will be providing some drumming and Brett Omerod who will be doing some vocals as well as guest vocalist 'The Cat'. If we all turn up it would be double the normal size of the band, Polyphonic Scree.

Scree Downloads

You can now download Scree from Overplay, not only that but you can download any of our extensive back catalog for free, yes nowt! Don't you feel really privileged.... no really.

Fatter Richer Wiser Release Update

The release of Fatter Richer Wiser has been pushed back, not in a GNR Chinese Democracy way but maybe by a couple of months. Since the first cut of the album new vocalist 'The Cat' has some new lyrics, particularly apparently for 'The man who runs the funk'. He feels "I am a man, I need to Funk" and "Gimme the Funk", "I've got the Funk" can be expanded upon. Strange. On top of that 'Bins' wants to rework some of the drumming after he's had some afterschool classes from the Fleecemeister.

History Of Scree (Continued)

more from Stuart Macaroni's excellent text....

I then obviously found my way to the album ‘Loose Rocks’ which followed the EP. It contained several beautiful pieces of simple pop with ‘Life’, ‘Tramp in the Park’ & ‘Gnome Alive’. However the band was also showing it’s rock influences on ‘Ignorance’ and the Kasmir esq ‘Success’. There was yet more variety with the instrumental piece ‘Dreaming’.
Paul Mitchell was responsible for much of the Bands sound at that stage penning ‘Gnome Alive’, ‘Tramp In The Park’ and ‘Success’ :”I was trying to capture that sound of the mid 80’s whilst addressing issues such as homelessness and the political state of the country in a accessible way. I had my own battles at the time with weight and addiction to buns. We were trying to become more mature from the raw SME* stuff where we were basically learning our trade.”

*SME were an earlier incarnation of Scree

History of Scree (serialisation)

We've decided to slowly serialise this superb piece of prose by Mr Stuart Macaroni of top 100 something fame......

History of Scree

By Stuart Macaroni (of top 100 fame….)

I was first alerted to Scree in the early ‘90’s by there seminal ‘Gnome Alive’ EP. The unique pop hook onto a progressive bass line really built upon work by Scritti Politti and Belious Some. Taking that mid eighties sound and moving it into the 90’s. What struck however was how they were able to move that initial pop sound and shift into other influences such as rock and psychedelia.

Scree - Fatter, Richer, Wiser

With the pending release of the first new album (Fatter, Richer, Wiser) in 14 years Scree have decided to get with technology and produce a website and a blog. Both of which will be mostly full of self proclaiming arrogance about how good they are. Want to comment on Scree's new album? Well reply here unless of course you are having a go about us being offensive. We mean no real harm to Dolphins and in no way condone using Dolphin meat as a Tuna supplement. However everything we said about the Neville's we stand by, just ask Jaap Stamm.