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.