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David Reilly 1977 It Can Only Get Better 2001 2008 Anthology 1977-2007 Vols 1-10 DDHR As the title suggests, "Munchen Musik" was recorded in Munich and, like AMF (also recorded in Germany but this time near Kassel) it's mainly piano based. Extracts from "The Drone Effect" and "AMF" appear on the "Anthology" 2CD set. 1978 1979 Heartband David was heavily influenced by his best schoolfriend at the time, Dood Hamilton. Dood started writing his own country tinged songs around 1975/6 influenced by the Eagles and Neil Young. Heartband had no drummer just Dood and Fred on acoustics and David on very basic bass. But David did occasionally use knitting needles and Tupperware boxes as percussion. Stand outs were early covers of Young's "Like A Hurricane" and Jonathon Richman's "Egyptian Reggae". Much of the material was recorded with one microphone in Dood's mum's front room. 1978 Berlin In the summer of 1978, David joined up with the Gurr brothers to form a guitar, bass and drums trio playing mostly David's compositions. The band would play on occasional Sunday afternoons at a Mental Institution near Edinburgh much to the delight of the patients. 1978 Berlin Berlin Rough Cut This was Berlin with an extra guitarist as David brought Dood in. The band played around the Edinburgh area and the setlists now included some of Dood's songs along with a memorable version of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine". The group would rehearse at a local Church Hall every Sunday. The "Sven Diamond" album was recorded direct to cassette during these rehearsals. The Cross Keys set was played to a packed audience in Dalkeith and was Dood's last gig with the band. Essentially an audience recording bootleg. 1978 Sven Diamond Kicks With the departure of Dennis Hamilton, guitarist Gus Bolton was recruited and the band took on a harder sound. Gus was a veteran of local punk band The Noise. The songs became shorter, louder and faster. "Around The Sound" (1979) was recorded during rehearsal sessions, this album captured Spring 1979 perfectly. 1979 Around The Sound Capital Models Kicks split up at the start of the summer of 1979 and David formed a new trio with college friend Ann Park on electric violin and her brother Jim on drums. After a couple of rehearsals, David went to Munich for the summer. On his return he formed a new trio with Gus Bolton and another ex-Noise member, Eric Merrill. After getting a set of new songs together, David re-recruited Jim Park on drums. To allow him to concentrate on vocals, Jim's friend Jamie Frain was brought in on bass. The band took its name form a shop in Edinburgh's Royal Mile and started gigging in January 1980. By March however, Jim and Eric had left and been replaced by Keith Apter and Nicky Hind respectively. In May 1980, David added synth to the musical line-up and Nicky left leaving a four piece. The quartet gigged around Scotland until August when David left to live near Kassel, Germany for a year. Gus and Jamie were joined from Pure Bears by singer Kenny McLeod and drummer Donald Mitchell to form Ritual Dance. "The Sweet Thrill.." was recorded on to two track reel to reel at Eric's house in January 1980 after the initial five-piece had played just one gig. "Breaking Silence" was a 6 song EP recorded in May 1980 by the second quintet line-up while "Maskless" was a collection of rehearsal and live recordings showcasing the final quartet. The Anthology was put together in 2002 for Jamie's 40th birthday and contains every song the Models ever played apart from their cover of the Who's "Substitute" which was never recorded. In early 2011, the final quartet reformed, with the possibility of playing live dates and writing new material. They were subsequently joined by Jim Park. 1979 1980 Anthology Go here to listen to Capital Models... Sombre Reptiles Whilst living in Germany David decided to give himself a "band" persona and, from a shortlist of Brian Eno song titles, the name Sombre Reptiles was chosen. In all, David released 35 albums under this name from Love/War/Travel/Etc in December 1980 to Starcrossfix in December 1995 before becoming the Cloudland Blue Quartet in the summer of 1996. Albums were recorded using multitracking and programing with backing tapes being used for sporadic live dates. Love War Travel Etc 1981 1982 1983 1984 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Flirten ist ja leicht (Flirting is Easy) Notwithstanding the Sombre Reptiles moniker, David formed a "real" band while living in Germany in 1981. Taking their name from a magazine headline, Edith Baesse (now a radio DJ in Munich) was the lead singer, Carsten Tampe played guitar and Didi Rudolf featured on bass while David played drums. The material performed was taken from the first two Sombre Reptiles albums, Love/War/Travel/Etc and The Value of Games Social Cue On returning to Edinburgh in the late summer of 1981, David pulled together a five piece line up including girlfriend Anne Fowler on synths and Capital Models' original drummer Jim Park. David played bass and two other members on guitar and saxophone respectively completed the line up (their names are lost to antiquity...). The band never gigged but produced enough material for one album including versions of songs from Sombre Reptiles' Pictures From A Magazine album. Songs written with this line up also appeared on Sombre Reptiles last 1981 album, For You. 1981 Iceberg (1981-1982) David Reilly/Anne Fowler/Jeff Foster After Social Cue came to nothing, David andd Anne teamed up with drummer Jeff Foster in a band that sound a little like New Orde. However, David was unwilling to accomodate Jeff's love of reggae style drumming and the trio split amicably. 1982 Last Uprising In the winter of 1981/82, David joined punk band Last Uprising to play keyboards on their live dates. No recordings of the band exist in David's archive. DDHR & Keith Apter David got together again with second Capital Models drummer, Keith Apter in the Spring of 1982 and they recorded one album of persussion and synth music which was received rather well in David's adopted home from home, Germany. Disco Complex Originally a four piece featuring David, old schoolfriend Alan Brodie and wife Anne Reilly (nee Fowler) on keyboards and ex-Pure Bears bassist, George Coleman, Disco Complex was formed to peform a one-off gig of cover versions of songs by the likes of David Essex, Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Magazine and Roxy Music. The band stayed together however writing their own material (some of which appeared also on Sombre Reptiles' A Kiss and a Smile). Keith Apter joined on percussion with ex-Ritual Dance and Pure Bears singer Kenny McLeod added on guitar and joint lead vocals. The band eventually drifted apart in the summer of 1983. 1982 Love Parade Around the time Disco Complex split up, David was performing gigs in Edinburgh as Sombre Reptiles using backing tapes. Alan Brodie joined him onstage briefly at one performance and the two decided to form a pop duo writing, recording and performing together from September '83 for a year. After a short break they reconvened to write the difficult second album but to no avail. The duo recorded one more album of ambient music in early 1986 before changing their name to Boom!
Charnelhouse David had known Malcolm Logan for a number of years, regularly contributing exclusive tracks to Malcolm's cassette fanzine The Plateaux Phase and recording Malcolm's band, Acoustic Youth. The two got together to write and record an album under the name Charnelhouse with Josef K bassist Davy Weddell. Dancers Of San Martino David formed The Dancers of San Martino with Stewart Robinson (aka Peri Urban) and brought Alan Brodie into the band along with some of the aborted Love Parade material. Meanwhile, Stewart brought in Bob Gillies from their previous band M.A.O.... 1984 1985 1986 Boom! 1994 The Heavenly Music Corporation 1989 Call Me Clive
1988 1989 Crazy Wisdom
2002 Cloudland Blue Quartet 1996 1997 1999 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 Souvenir XVI : Ersatzreal Live Ersatzreal Companion EP #1 Ersatzreal Companion EP #2 Ersatzreal Companion EP #3 2009 Soundingfall Souvenir XVII: Acoustic Soundingfall 2010 Splinterheart Souvenir XVIII : Splinterheart Live 2011 Aftersilence : Retrospective 1996-2011 (2CD) The Vendôme EP CBQ & Peri Urban
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