A Brief History
Once upon a time in about 1983, Keith met Paul at someone's party and started chatting about records. They discovered that they likes the same kinds of music and decided to form a band. Some years later, after recruiting three more people to join them, FEVERFEW are formed. They play small gigs and enjoy local success in their home town of Reading. Their existence is shortlived however, and the only claim to fame of coming second in a talent show for Sky Television, they finally disband.Not content with piles of unsold Feverfew flexi-singles in their bedrooms, the two boys decided to try again. This time they recorded a demo tape in a friend's shed and send one of the songs to Sarah. The song is 'Clearer', and Sarah decide to release it as a single.
Soon after, Lloyd joins the band on drums, Mark plays bass and Harvey joins as second guitarist. Gemma answers an advert she sees for a vocalist/cellist and the line up is complete. After six singles, tow albums and tours of England, Japan and France, Martin replaces Lloyd as drummer and Gemma replaces Mark on bass.
New Single
By now you should have heard about the new single. As ever it features three songs (previously unavailable!) 'Dirty Mags', 'Loony Tunes' and 'Toulouse'. These were originally previewed at a John Peel session on Radio 1 some months before being re-recorded for the single release. If your record store refuses to stock it, you can order it in the normal way form Sarah.Due to a couple of drastic line-up changes and the desire to write new material, the only event coming up is the gig at the Thekla in Bristol on August 28th. As I write this, though. I have heard it is now completely sold out, so sorry if you missed it, but if you are going. see you there. The band will be playing some dates in London - so watch out this space.
written by Clovis in summer 1995,
On May 15, 2007, Keith Girdler died of cancer.
-alan
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