The Huxleys, 1990: Alan, Roy, Alison, Sheena, Laura. Second line-up. Our first featured Kinetic Kinardo, later of Meth O.D. on drums & bassist Richard, who had his talents, but also had prog-aspirations. Alison & I went to the pub to "let him go" & I let her be the bad guy - all sweet 22 & four foot ten and a half of her.
Laura wrote a nice song about a relationship of mine. And Richard wrote Black Leather Mama a.k.a. Red Headed Mama about her too. A progman tries to write a lusty blues & expects the subject of the song to sing it. I think we had one and a half half-hearted run throughs. Richard had some nice chord ideas when not trying to tackle genres akin to him. I couldn't really get to grips with them although his Dear Mr Heart went o.k. Huxleys mark one recorded that one at Sunset Studios in Paisley along with a Roysong called SpreadThe Story The engineer - a real sleep under the desk record round the clock kinda guy - told us about a band he'd recently recorded who had an indie hit thru a label down south. The label was Sarah, the band the Golden Dawn.
Second Huxleys demo was made by the mark two group at Sing Sing studios in Whiteinch where I spent each late 1990 Friday on an audio course. We recorded Carry Them Thru - the aforementioned Laura song, my Mis-Spent Youth which I recorded solo twelve years later, Camera Shy, a revamp of my 1985 homegrown effort which I'd gutted of its edgy riff ,& an Alison song I helped out on called Montgomerie Street which was better than any of my own songs at the time & the best recording of the bunch, although I saddled it with an intro I couldn't replicate live.
