Eyeless In Gaza

Eyeless In Gaza Are A Post-Punk/New Wave Musical Duo Of Martyn Bates And Peter Becker Based In Nuneaton Warwickshire England. They Have Described Their Music As "veer Ing Crazily From Filmic Ambiance To Rock And Pop Industrial Funk To Avant-Folk Styles." 1 Formed In 1980 The Group Went Into Hiatus In 1987 As Martyn Bates Pursued A Number Of Solo Projects And Collaborations Re-Emerging In 1993. History Becker A Laboratory Technician Had Played In A Covers Band Before Buying And Experimenting With A Wasp Synthesizer He Released A Solo Cassette-Album In June 1980 And A Second A Year Later . 2 Bates A Hospital Worker Had Previously Been A Member Of Reluctant Stereotypes And Released A Cassette Of Experimental Electronic Music In January 1980. 3 Shortly Afterwards They Met And Together They Formed Eyeless In Gaza Both Contributing Vocals And Several Instruments. 3 4 The Band Name Is A Reference To The Novel Of The Same Name By Aldous Huxley. 5 Bates Has Said He Chose The Name "for The Sound Of It.... I Was Reading The Huxley Book When I Met Pete.... It Sounded Perfectly Nice." But Bates Has Also Acknowledged An Allusion To The "biblical Myth" Of Samson Saying "I Feel Attracted By Religion. I Feel That People Don’t Pay Enough Attention To The Spiritual Side Of Their Life It Is A Very Interesting Side Of The Human Psychism And It Fascinates Me." Interview In Les Inrockuptibles Number 14 1988 6 After A Self-Released Single They Signed To Cherry Red Records Releasing Debut Album Photographs As Memories In February 1981. 7 After Three Further Albums For Cherry Red And An Album For Norwegian Label Uniton They Added Aztec Camera Drummer Dave Ruffy For Single "Welcome Now" 1985 Recruiting Former Sinatras/In Embrace Drummer Joby Palmer For The Next Album Back From The Rains. 8 The Group Then Went On Hiatus After Becker Married And Relocated To Spain With Bates Concentrating On Solo Work. 9 10 11 They Reunited In 1990 To Collaborate With Anne Clark On Her Album The Law Is An Anagram Of Wealth. 12 In 1991 Bates Formed Hungry I With Former Primitives Drummer Steve Dullahan. 13 14 They Returned In 1993 With Singer Elizabeth S For The Fabulous Library Album And Continued As A Duo Since. Bates Also Recorded Between 1994 And 1998 With M.J. Harris Napalm Death/Scorn Under The Name Drift And In The Early 2000s With Keyboardist Alan Trench In Twelve Thousand Days. 15 He Has Also Continued To Release Solo Material. In 2012 Martyn Bates And Peter Becker Appeared On "Right North" The Eleventh Album A Double Digipack Of The International Collective 48 Cameras. Discography Albums Photographs As Memories 1981 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 19 10 CD Reissue Includes 7 Bonus Tracks From Early Singles Caught In Flux 1981 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 27 10 Original LP Included Bonus 5 Track 12" The Eyes Of Beautiful Losers Also Included On CD Reissue Untitled/Home Produce 1982 Tago Mago - Split Cassette With Lol Coxhill Pale Hands I Loved So Well 1982 Uniton Drumming The Beating Heart 1982 Cherry Red/Virgin - UK Indie No. 26 10 CD Issue 1996 Also Includes Pale Hands I Loved So Well Rust Red September 1983 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 5 10 CD Issue 1994 Includes 6 Bonus Tracks Back From The Rains 1986 Cherry Red - CD Issue 1989 Includes 4 Bonus Tracks Fabulous Library 1993 Orchid Saw You In Reminding Pictures 1994 Hive-Arc Bitter Apples 1995 Ambivalent Scale All Under The Leaves The Leaves Of Life 1996 Ambivalent Scale Song Of The Beautiful Wanton 2000 SoleilMoon Summer Salt & Subway Sun 2006 Ambivalent Scale Answer Song & Dance 2010 Monopol Everyone Feels Like A Stranger 2011 Ambivalent Scale Butterfly Attitude 2012 Downwards Compilations Kodak Ghosts Run Amok-–Chronological Singles Etc. 1980-86 1987 Cherry Red Transience Blues 1990 Integrity Orange Ice & Wax Crayons 1992 Document - Previously Unreleased Material Voice The Best Of Eyeless In Gaza 1993 Cherry Red Sixth Sense-–The Singles Collection 2002 Cherry Red Home Produce—Country Bizarre 2003 NDN - With Lol Coxhill Expanded Version Of The 1982 Release No Noise - The Very Best Of Eyeless In Gaza 2005 Cherry Red Plague Of Years 2010 Sub Rosa EPs Kodak Ghosts Run Amok 1980 Ambivalent Scale Invisibility 1981 Cherry Red Others 1981 Cherry Red Kiss The Rains Goodbye 1986 Cherry Red Streets I Ran 1995 Ambivalent Scale - 5 Track Companion Release To "Saw You In Reminding Pictures" Singles "Veil Like Calm" 1982 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 42 10 "New Risen" 1983 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 15 10 "Sun Bursts In" 1984 Cherry Red - UK Indie No. 13 10 "Welcome Now" 1985 Cherry Red "Shorepoem" 2009 Monopol Videos Street Lamps N' Snow 1994 - 1982 Concert In Le Havre Saw You In Reminding Pictures 2005 Cherry Red - DVD Reissue Of Above Video Plus Original Promo Videos For "Veil Like Calm" And "New Risen" And Six Tracks Recorded Live On The Isle Of Wight 2004 Notes 1 ^ "Biography" Eyelessingaza.Com. Retrieved 25 March 2013 2^ Gimarc P. 331 344 479 3^ A B Gimarc P. 278 515 4^ Henderson 5^ Strong P. 322 6^ "Interview With Martyn Bates" Les Inrockuptibles Issue 14 1988 Reproduced At Eyelessingaza.Com. Retrieved 25 March 2013 7 ^ Strong P. 322-3 8^ Strong P. 323 9 ^ Strong P. 322-4
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11 ^ Walker John & Robbins Ira "Eyeless In Gaza" Trouser Press. Retrieved 25 March 2013
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