Artist description Nige trained at the Cutteslowe school of Pure Blues while Trev got drunk the other side of the wall and listened to Sibelius, Mario Lanza and Hawkwind whilst reading Superman 'Bizarro' comics over and over again. Nige thinks that Derek Trucks is the future of the electric guitar. Sometimes Trev agrees with him, sometimes he doesn't think there's going to BE a future. Nige and Trev both have a passionate devil-may-care, 'no-holds-barred'approach to music resulting in a rapturous hotch potch of euphoric jazz-rock pandemonium peppered with fevered bursts of werewolf gibberish reminiscent of Captain Beefheart and the great Lord Buckley. Mick 'Trev' Clack's battered Stratocasters wail and howl relentlessly at the moon (though more in the direction of Planet Klennaar)carving out a ricketty balsa wood platform for Frank 'Nige' Fish's reckless, unstoppable, scatterbrained Hammer-Horror sermons. He talks in tongues, he yelps, he can smash a crystal vase at 50 metres by shrieking the words 'Steel Claw!'. He yodels, he bellows, he serenades, he lectures and boy, can he play guitar! The triumphant cascading flurry of notes that he rips from his Strat in 'To Catch a Baby Donkey'is breathtaking..................................... ................................................. The 'Stamp Out M-M-M-Madness in the Air'CD stimulates many feelings within the aurally- handcuffed listener; Joy, nausea, fear, hope for the future, rapture, acute depression,lust, nervous exhaustion,unbridled compassion and unconditional love for one's neighbour (even if he displays the unenviable 'qualities' of Saddam Hussein!), mellow sulkyness, calmness and the eventual stamping out of all m-m-m-madness in the surrounding air. Rock!!!!........................ .............................................

Music Style Ranting, grooving, shrieking, psycho-jazz/rock/blues/classical/comedy/funk

Musical Influences Beefheart/Zappa/Hendrix/Miles Davis/Mario Lanza/Lord Buckley/Blue Nile/American Music Club/Ken Dodd/Tower of Power/Clark Hutchinson/Johnny Winter/Aretha Franklin/Mahavishnu Orchestra

Similar Artists Zappa/ Mothers of Invention/Captain Beefheart/Frank Rabbit and the Bobtails/Frank Fish and the Fins

Artist History Nige was born when he was 2 and was an apprentice City Council rat catcher before the fall of the Cutteslowe wall. He first met Trev in the Gents at Wembley Stadium on July 30th 1966 where they formed the imaginatively titled 'Nige and Trev'as a tribute to Geoff Hurst's hat-trick. Both are under the illusion that their music will somehow contribute to a lasting World Peace seemingly unaware that most of their friends think their CD is (quote) "A bloody racket", "Enough to make ANYONE down a bucketful of Prozac" and "Dischordant,disturbing,doom laden, diverse, desolate and deafening drivel". Despite this continued criticism, Nige and Trev stick to their water pistols and flatly refuse to compromise. They are deliriously passionate about making music so be warned...there is a LOT more to come despite rumours that they are about to join up with sad,lettuce- eating riff-bandits FRANK RABBIT and the BOBTAILS. Nige and Trev are here to stay. Eat SOUP!

Group Members NIGE: (aka FRANK FISH) Vocals, voices, sermons, howling, shrieking, gibbering, adlib babbling. Wild electric guitar solos and acoustic bottleneck. ................................................. TREV: (aka Mick 'Stickle' Clack): Tortured Strats, acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, editing and whatever it takes to provide a suitably nightmarish platform for FF's fevered ranting & raving....... ................................................. Nige and Trev also regularly rely on the talents of the following gifted musicians in order to prop up their flimsy so-called compositions: PAUL GIBBON: Piano, keyboards, backing vocals.... DALE 'JIMMY' MARSHALL: Proper Drum Kit........ PERRY 'YER OWN WORST ENEMY' SMITH: Shrieking..... JANIE SHORTER: Sax....... SARAH REEVE: Vocals...... ALFIE & ZAPPA: Barking........................... ................................................. CD available now. To order, e-mail Nige and Trev at: clickclack@ntlworld.com

Instruments All hand-made from soup, white hot fear and blu-tac.................

Albums 'Stamp Out M-M-M-Madness in the Air' - NIGE & TREV and their Life-size Working Model of the Planet Earth (Rooftop CD album RTR003)

Press Reviews 'After listening to the first 15 minutes I went into a dark room to rock gently while muttering about the blithering squirrels. I've only just stopped barking and dribbling down my top. I could handle the first song but didn't have the kind of mental preparation that might have got me through the rest of the 70 odd minutes of gibbering pandemonium...' TIM BEARDER - BBC Online- May 2003 ..To read the full traumatic BBC review - visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/music/nigeandtrev.shtml ................................................. 'A musical own-goal. Childish drivel. I loved it!' HELEN MILKBREATH - 'Lurcher Weekly'............. ................ 'They can't sing, the guitars are out of tune, the lyrics are meaningless, the production is laughable, you can't hum ANY of the tunes and you certainly can't dance to it.Ten out of ten. A masterpiece!' GAVIN BEDLINGTON-WHIPPET - 'WHAT Telegraph Pole'. ....................................... 'Nige and Trev are the Burke and Hare of distorted tremelo arm torture. I winced in pain at the flurry of notes in Frank Fish's guitar onslaught on the triumphant final track 'To Catch a Baby Donkey'. He makes the guitar speak. It says "Put me down you bastard!" Grow up lads. QUENTIN NESBITT-DWOM - 'The Yelford Standard'... .................................................

Additional Info Follow up triple CD album in process of being recorded in the nude at Rooftop Studios, Oxford, England.

Location Oxford, Oxfordshire - United Kingdom

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