Click Click

We grew up during a time when music was becoming Psychedelic, a rich time indeed for experimenting with sound. We were too young to be in a band but the seed was sown. Sci-fi TV shows like Space Patrol, Fireball XL5 and Stingray (shows that featured tape generated electronic noises) added to our fascination with musique concrete (although we'd never heard of that particular term at the time…that came later). During the 70's we put together two or three different bands, breaking them up when they fell into the inevitable blues/rock format. Those Nervous Surgeons, the last band we put together before Click Click, changed everything. Tim, the bass player, had a Wasp synthesiser and a reel-reel tape deck and all of a sudden we saw the opportunity to make something different. We'd been experimenting with tapes and home-made noise generators for years; looped rhythms and evil sounding slabs of noise, background stuff for the band to improvise with, but having a synthesizer – they were extremely expensive at the time – gave us a completely new pallet of colour to work with. The Surgeons came apart shortly after and we put Click Click together as a three-piece funk/rock/electronic band. The funk and the rock (and the guitarist) lasted about six months. The electronics lasted for twenty years.