Projects and Bands

Below is a archive of all the other musical contributions with various bands. Please check out the web sites for each of these bands for further information.

Dead Empires 2006-?

This is the latest band I'm involved with. It's a strange story how we got together - for the full blurb see the Dead Empires web site. This line-up is Frazer Smout (former Venetian Effect and Body of Evidence: drums), Julian Shaw (bass), Liam Godfrey (former Venetian Effect and Body of Evidence: lead guitar) and Steve Spray (former Venetian Effect and Endless Nameless: vocals and guitar).

For more information www.deadempires.co.uk or www.myspace.com/deadempires

Alternative Eden 2006-2006

This is the band I wasinvolved with from May to October 2006. This line-up was Steve D. (former Part-time Superstar: drums), Julian Shaw (bass), Liam Godfrey (former Venetian Effect and Body of Evidence: lead guitar) and Steve Spray (former Venetian Effect and Endless Nameless: vocals and guitar).

For more information www.myspace.com/alternativeeden

Endless Nameless 2005-?

A "supergroup" consisting of Rob Andrew (former Newspeak: drums), Julian Shaw (bass), Nick Wright (former Newspeak and Third Wish: lead guitar) and Steve Spray (former Venetian Effect: vocals and guitar). We played one gig at the Late Room/Life Cafe in Manchester in January 2006, but unfortunately personal tragedy struck soon after and the bands future is still very much up in the air. As of late Nick has moved to Washington DC and so the band wont be doing anything for at least 2 years.

No web site is available.

Camelia Flower 2005- ?

Side project with Nik Gill (of Venetian Effect fame). During our time in Venetian Effect we had written a lot of songs together that never got played by the band. We decided that it would be good to get our own take on how these songs should sound. Whether we will get together to record some more songs in the future has yet to be discussed.

For more information www.cameliaflower.co.uk

Venetian Effect 2002-2005

I played lead guitar with Venetian Effect and also co-wrote many songs with Nik Gill and Steve Spray.

Exit Strategy: The Best of Venetian Effect (2005)	Tracks: 1) Fall of an Empire 2) Synchronicity 3) Between Water and Fire 4) Heart to the World 5) Childsplay 6) Today Tomorrow Forever 7) Coming Up for Air 8) Life 9) I Could Take to This 10) Sweet Revenge 11) I'm Fine Thanks 12) Neon Lullabies 13) Make Your Stand 14) Lost in the New State 15) Flying Blind 16) Today Tomorrow Forever (acoustic version) 17) Lost in the New State (acoustic version) 18) Heart to the World (acoustic version)
Silent Echoes (2003)	Tracks: 1) Synchronicity 2) Life 3) Today Tomorrow Forever 4) Sweet Revenge 5) Flying Blind
Utopia Falling (2003)	Tracks: 1) Fall of an Empire 2) This World 3) Missing the Point 4) Perfect Game 5) Against My Own Advice 6) Close Your Eyes

For more information www.venetianeffect.co.uk

Pyrrhus 2000-?

Side project with Dan Woodcock and Rob Bates (of Newspeak fame). Dan sang, I did all the music and Rob played slide guitar (and wrote some of the songs). A follow up has been in the pipeline for a while.

Psychegothic (2002)

Tracks: 1) Black Dahlia 2) Vote of a Dead Man 3) I Heard Edgar Say 4) Nikita 5) Ice Blue 6) Shine 7) Intrigue 8) Dulce Et Decorum Est

For more information www.pyrrhus.co.uk

Crome Yellow 2000-?

Side project with Rob Bates (of Newspeak fame). The first EP was completed in 2001 and the second album will be recorded at some point in the future (some songs are already written and partly recorded - although not much has been done in the past 4 years).

World in Stone (2001)	Tracks: 1) Rejected 2) All These Things 3) Mad Man's Eyes 4) The Line 5) Halcyon Days
Acoustic Demos (2001)	Tracks: 1) The Line 2) Rejected 3) All These Things 4) Halcyon Days

For more information www.cromeyellow.co.uk

Newspeak 1998-2003

The band that the Many Faces of Eddie turned into. I played bass with Newspeak in my student days but they survived a while past that.

Apocalypse Newspeak (2000)	Tracks: Disc 1 1) Half As Much As I 2) Film Clips and Politics 3) Cave In 4) Take What You Can 5) Writing on the Wall 6) Hearts That Weigh Like Gods Disc 2 1) Satellite 2) Half As Much As I 3) Cave In 4) Intrigue/Fatigue 5) Three Days in Liechtenstein 6) Cultivar 7) Writing on the Wall 8) Halfway to Paradise 9) Private Universe
Vertigo (1999)	Tracks: 1) Purple Flags 2) Three Days in Liechtenstein 3) Lotus Flower (Infection Supply) 4) Cultivar 5) The Sequel
Illusion Perception and the Mind (1998)	Tracks: 1) The Governor's Fingers 2) Just Like Crusoe 3) When You Come Around 4) I Will Watch You Sleep 5) Angeline
Live at Bar 8, Sheffield (2000)	Tracks: 1) Half As Much As I 2) Cultivar 3) Film Clips and Politics 4) Three Days in Liechtenstein 5) Hearts That Weight Like Gods 6) Cave In 7) Private Universe 8) The Writing on the Wall 9) Satellite 10) La Vida Loca 11) Take What You Can
The Collective Sessions (2000)	Tracks 1) Cave In 2) The Writing on the Wall 3) Three Days in Liechtenstein 4) Film Clips and Politics 5) Hearts That Weight Like Gods 6) The Sequel 7) La Vida Loca 8) Satellite (version 1) 9) Halfway to Paradise (club style) 10) Heavy Metal 11) Satellite (version 2) 12) Halfway to Paradise (instrumental)
Rock the Casbah (2002)	Tracks: 1) Half As Much As I 2) Cultivar 3) Take What You Can 4) The Governor's Fingers 5) Film Clips and Politics 6) Intrigue Fatigue 7) Three Days in Liechtenstein 8) The Writing on the Wall 9) Hearts That Weigh Like Gods

For more information www.newspeak.co.uk

The Many Faces of Eddie 1996-1998

I played guitar with TMFOE and then moved on to bass. After Tony Clarke left I ended up singing lead on about half of the songs on this album as we were singerless. Once Dan Woodcock joined us we changed name to Newspeak.

The Complete Many Faces of Eddie (2000)

Tracks: 1) Coming Round Again (later version) 2) Eddie Goes Surfing 3) A Million Men 4) Price We Pay 5) Heading Due South (radio edit) 6) Angeline 7) It's Over 8) Coming Round Again (early version) 9) The Governor's Fingers 10) I Will Watch You Sleep 11) Heading Due South (version 2) 12) You Come Around 13) What Will Our Children Say?

No web site is available

The Fortune cookies 1995-1996

I played rhythm guitar in this band, along with final Sanctum bass guitarist Steve Bembridge.

No web site is available

Sanctum/Extradition 1993-1995

School band. I did a few gigs as singer before they realised I couldn't sing. I then went on to play rhythm guitar.

No web site is available

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