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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.....................................
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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!!!!........................
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Music Style
Ranting, grooving, shrieking, psycho-jazz/rock/blues/classical/comedy/funk |
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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 |
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Similar Artists
Zappa/ Mothers of Invention/Captain Beefheart/Frank Rabbit and the Bobtails/Frank Fish and the Fins |
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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!
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Group Members
NIGE: (aka FRANK FISH) Vocals, voices, sermons,
howling, shrieking, gibbering, adlib babbling.
Wild electric guitar solos and acoustic bottleneck.
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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.......
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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...........................
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CD available now. To order, e-mail Nige and Trev
at: clickclack@ntlworld.com |
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Instruments
All hand-made from soup, white hot fear and blu-tac................. |
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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) |
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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
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'A musical own-goal. Childish drivel. I loved it!'
HELEN MILKBREATH - 'Lurcher Weekly'.............
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'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'.
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'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'...
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Additional Info
Follow up triple CD album in process of being recorded in the nude at Rooftop Studios, Oxford, England. |
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Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire - United Kingdom |
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