Shock Headed Peters

*****IF YOU HAVE OVER 1000 FRIENDS YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED UNLESS YOU CONVINCE ME THAT YOU AREN'T JUST A 'SCALP-HUNTER'*****
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - I HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO EXCISE PEOPLE FROM MY 'FRIENDS' LIST WHO I LIKE A LOT BUT WHO ARE NOT SHOWING THE SAME DILIGENCE AS ME WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO 'KEEPING THE CRAP OUT' [SEE ELSEWHERE] - IT MIGHT JUST BE SEEN AS KARL WITH A BEE [OR A WHOLE SWARM OF THEM] IN HIS BONNET BUT I REFUSE TO BE AN ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING HOARDING FOR RUBBISH
THAT THEY MIGHT TOLERATE BUT I DON'T - Shock Headed Peters [NB. it is not written shockheaded peters!] was formed by Karl Blake, 'Lord' Ashley Wales and David 'Cadbury' Knight in 1982. They were joined by Mark Rowlatt and Clive 'Tigger' Glover to make the full first line-up of the band who recorded two eps [I, Bloodbrother Be [£4000 love letter]' and 'The Kissing of Gods'] and an album 'Not Born Beautiful'.
Blake had previously featured in Lemon Kittens, Wales in 5 or 6, Knight in 5 or 6 and the Fast Set and Rowlatt in Metabolist.
By mid-85 Rowlatt, Glover and Wales had gone ( one, Wales - to SPRING HEELED JACK- and Rowlatt briefly to LUXURIA (i think so, anyway) and then on to travelling the world - which he does to this day). About a year later Knight went too (getting reverse deja vu here. :-}) -
[but continued to play for Blakes best friend and Lemon Kittens partner Danielle Dax] - at this time Blake recorded an ep. and an album ['Imp of the Perverse' and 'Lunatic Dawn of the Dismantler' respectively] under the name The Underneath - in october 1987, not long after a european tour and half live/half studio album the Peters ground to a halt, Blake at that time being the sole remaining member [as he is now].
After forming British Racing Green, Evil Twin and the short-lived The Greater Good - [all immediately after the peters demise] Blake was rejoined by Knight in 1990 for a new and maybe [!] still-continuing two-piece version of Shock Headed Peters, who recorded three cds; 'Several Headed Enemy', 'Fear Engine 2; .almost as if it had never happened', and finally [to date 2006] the now ten-years-old 'Tendercide'.
Blake has also been a sideman/guest throughout the end of the 80s up to the near present for a 'number of different and varying projects by other people - 'some better known than others' [eg. The Reflections, Alternative T.V., The Invisible Band, The Folk Devils [RIP, Ian] , Pinky McClure & the Puritans, Left Hand Right Hand , Joolie Wood etc. all of whom i still talk to civilly, and some even in a friendly way], the most recent of these being Eric Rogers Gae Bolg as bassist and The Long Decline as drummer [album out - blake on 2 tracks ], as well as having performed spoken word concerts of his own material. Blake WAS also part of the improvising combo Amal Gamal - that comprises Steven Thrower () David Knight (ex-SHP, Arkkon, Danielle Dax), Orlando Harrison (Alabama 3), Gavin Mitchell (enlighten me!) and Dave Smith (Guapo , Miasma) and Ms. Dax herself, on occasion. New to this [2007] is a little bit of work on the album by Simon Finn, 'Pass the Distance'.
Shock Headed Peters had been dormant since 2002 [BUT SEE LATER] owing to the pressures of having to work with a bunch of people [live band] that unfortunately included a couple of idiots and as a result took an entropic toll.[one of these I still talk to on the rare occasions when i see them, but just won't ever play with them again - they are nice sometimes - the other on the fortunately few times I see him i shout at in liu of legally being able to 'set about him'; I am not fond of pathalogical liars and self-aggrandising creeps - and when they happen to be one and the same person, well) BUT are up and running in a fluid manner contracting and expanding to suit with a fine bunch of fellows in tow - NOT AN A°°HOLE AMONGST THEM - (some flakes, but no a°hles ;-} ) - which is more than can be said about SOME of the bands I have had/been inwe all make mistakes and misjudge people SOMETIMES ABOUT SOME THINGS - but abuse of trust is to be punished one way or another. However.SORRY ABOUT THE 2ND PERSON/ 3RD PERSON SHIFT IN GRAMMAR - BUT I CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO CHANGE IT NOW.anyway the chap below wrote this in between whistling.
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Dian Tiansay, Nov. 2005/ mar. 2006/ NOV. 2006/ sept.2007/ OCT 2009/