Artist description "Tony Hill is considered to be a pioneer of the psychedelic guitar back in the sixties when he was with cult band The Misunderstood. He later went on to form High Tide who's music broke down all barriers and gave a new meaning the word PSYCHEDELIA. With his new band FICTION, expect a fuzz drenched, mind blowing, psychedelic guitar work out that will amaze any self respecting music lover".

Music Style Late 60's - early 70's influenced power trio. Heavy/psych/prog/rock band

Musical Influences Hendrix, High Tide, Mountain and to many to list

Similar Artists Ha ha ha Lol, none !

Group Members Tony Hill - Guitars/Vocals Dean E Holt - Bass Syd Farrell - Drums

Instruments Gutar, Bass, Vocals

Albums Sea Shanties (High Tide), High Tide (High Tide), The Flood (High Tide), Precious Cargo (High Tide), Interesting Times (High Tide), Open Season (High Tide), The Reason Of Success (High Tide), Ancient Gates (High Tide), A Fierce Nature (High Tide), Playing For Time (Tony Hill Solo Album), Inexactness (Tony Hill Solo Album), DNA, The Brain, The Universe (Fiction)

Press Reviews Well, The klinker was its normal inchoate self: The irrepressible Hugh Metcalf yelling "we start in ten minutes" as a half dozen apparently unrelated machine operators tinker with toy tape recorders, laptops, bits of wiring, large wineglasses, violin bows and super 8 projectors. I conceive a momentary connation between autism and he avant-garde - the unconnectedness, the lack of affect, it's all here tonight at The klinker. But behind this buzz of overgrown childsplay there stand devices rarely seen at this venue: A full drum kit (without ethnicky extensions or innovative modifications), big Roland guitar amps, a Strat copy and a Westone bass. Tonight Tony Hill plays at the klinker - former guitarist and mastermind of classic doomy acid-folk-rock act High Tide. Largely unknown outside psychedelic anorak-dom, high tide have a small but loyal following amongst those-who-know. Tthe klinker's curator-general Hugh Metcalfe is one of those-who-know: It is difficult to imagine him as a young freejazznik in the sixties as ready to rock out to High Tide's tortuous, complex melodies as to stroke his chin to the discordant parp of Evan Parker et al. The klinker regulars eye Hugh's indulgence with amused tolerance - guitars are usually played with teaspoons here and the heavy grinning gap-toothed bassist (Fiction) is somewhat at odds with the faded middle class Bohman brothers, all neuroses and intellectual tics. After a short film of mudflats and sea air from Hugh Metcalfe's collection the rock'n'roll band arrive. TonyHill has lost none of his touch in the three decades since the 'Sea shanties' album of yore - it's a complex bluesy fuzzwah sort of sound, ably backed up by Dean Holt's fluent bass playing and Syd Farrell's powerful drumming. They've become something of a four-to-the-floor power trio without the original High Tide string section of Simon House and Pete Pavli and I find myself comparing them to early Sabbath: perhaps it's the trademark doominess of Tony Hill's vision that drove him into decades of drug fuelled depression. Hill is a weathered stick of a man, grey haired now, clad in the simple black jeans & t-shirt of a working guitarist. Sometimes you feel that he's squeezing just too many notes into each bar but that's what you listen to Tony Hill for. The klinker proprietor is elated and most of the audience leave. high tide's early seventies Puddle town period with the remains of Arthur brown's kingdom Come led them into free improvisation and bartok but this current incarnation only hints at their avant-garde roots. A disappointing show? Well, no. it's good to see hill playing again even without high tide - it's an unmistakable sound even if incongruous in this setting and something I never thought I'd see live.

Location Chingford, London - United Kingdom

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