The Shriekback Pages

News:

• Website updates - or rather, lack of. I must apologise, since September 2009 I have been unable to update the site for a variety of reasons. Normal service will be resumed at some point but in the meantime I really must mention Shriekback's latest album 'Life In The Loading Bay', out now on Malicious Damage records (link as below). It sees the welcome return of Carl Marsh to the fold and is well worth buying. I'll post more details when I'm better able to update the site.
• Shriekback's other most recent two albums are Cormorant (released 7th November 2005, repackaged with bonus tracks in June 2008) and Glory Bumps (released May 2007). Both of these are available from Malicious Damage Records.
• You may also be interested in Monstrance, an improvised album featuring Barry Andrews, Martyn Barker and XTC's Andy Partridge. This was released on 2nd April 2007 on Ape House Records.
• For other Shriek-related material, including offshoots and rarities, please contact i_obtain @ hotmail.com or visit barryandrews.net.

Introduction

These pages contain information about the band Shriekback. There is a complete discography of Shriekback and many related artists, a smattering of pictures, the most up-to-date Shriekback information you'll find anywhere (I hope!), and an ever-increasing collection of lyrics.

Thanks for visiting!

Index

• The Notes, Credits and Copyright Notice includes some important notes regarding the discography pages, but also applies to all of the other pages on this website.
  
  This especially applies if you are thinking of stealing my work (not to mention years of effort and considerable sums of money invested) and pasting it on your own website. Please don't. It helps no-one to have out-of-date copies floating around, quite apart from being plagarism, a breach of copyright, and generally pretty bad form. Yes I have noticed.
  
  
• Information pages:
  • The Shriekback Blueprint was included with some copies of the 'Hand On My Heart' 7" single and includes a nice history of the band up to mid-1984.
  • Naked Apes & Pond Life - more information on Shriekback's album from the mid-90s. Some bizarre instruments might have died to make this...
  • Cormorant - more information on the latest album (released on 7 November 2005).
  • More information on the Kevin Wilkinson tribute Green Indians which features otherwise unreleased material by Shriekback-related bands Illuminati, The Caretakers and The Refugees.
  
  
• Discography pages:
  • The full Shriekback Discography
  • The somewhat related Shriekback MP3-ography (new word invented here).
  • Not-yet-complete list of Shriekback radio sessions.
  • A detailed list of V/A Compilations featuring Shriekback and related tracks. (Brief details of these are included in the main list).
  • Cover versions of Shriekback songs.
  • Shriekback samples spotted on other people's records.
  
  
• Pictures:
  • Some Shriekback records.
  • Pictures of some of the compilations featuring Shriekback tracks.
  • Carl's Photo Scrapbook.
  • Extracts...
  
  
• Lyrics:
  • Lyrics to 'Tench'
  • Lyrics to 'Care'
  • Lyrics to 'Jam Science'
  • Lyrics to 'Oil And Gold'
  • Lyrics to 'Big Night Music'
  • Lyrics to 'Go Bang!'
  • Lyrics to 'Sacred City'
  • Lyrics to 'Naked Apes & Pond Life'
  • Lyrics to 'Having A Moment'
  • Lyrics to 'Cormorant' (Not yet available)
  
  
• Related Artists:
  Everyone played on everyone elses records. Here are some of them.
  
  
  • Bands featuring Dave Allen:
    • The Crash Baptists.
    • The Elastic Purejoy,
    • Gang Of Four.
    • King Swamp,
    • Low Pop Suicide,
    • Malacoda,
    • Noise Abroad.
    
    
  • Bands featuring Barry Andrews:
    • Barry Andrews (solo),
    • The Caretakers,
    • Illuminati,
    • Robert Fripp's "League Of Gentlemen",
    • Monstrance
    • The Refugees,
    • Barry Andrews' "Restaurant For Dogs",
    • 7even,
    • Stic Basin,
    • XTC.
    
    
  • Bands featuring Carl Marsh:
    • Happyhead,
    • Carl Marsh (solo),
    • Out On Blue Six.
    
    
  • Miscellaneous other bands. Shriekback members for hire.
    Including: Sarah Jane Morris, Fluke, Joseph Arthur, Murray Lachlan Young, Alain Bashung, Ausgang.
    
    
  • Billy Bragg and The Blokes. (Martyn Barker, Lu Edmonds and Simon Edwards are amongst the Blokes).
    
    
  • Yat-Kha: Music and throat singing from the Altai-Sayani mountains of Tuva (southern Siberia). Managed and produced by Lu Edmonds. More information on the Biography and Discography pages.
  
  
• Email:
  • To contact me please follow this link. Please use this address to notify me of any additions/corrections to the discography, or anything else of interest.
  • You can now contact Shriekback directly care of angelina@barryandrews.net. Whether you get a reply probably depends on volume of email!
  
  
• Links to other sites of interest:
  • Not Great Men - The Gang Of Four Website.
  • Stic Resource - May be of interest to fans of Shriekback.
  • Shriekback Digital Conspiracy - NOT an official site, but it's good!
  • emusic - Some early and rare Shriekback material now available on MP3.
  • Some Belgian gig photos from the '80s are available from Phillipe Carly's New Wave Photos website.
  • To find out what Dave Allen is up to these days, check out www.daveallenmusician.info.
    Alternatively visit www.pampelmoose.com or www.strongweek.com.
  • Official site for The Veils, Finn Andrews' band.
  • Chalkhills - The XTC website, including a very detailed discography.
  • Lu Edmonds - biography and info on some of his other projects.
  • More info on Shriekback's sometime producer and colaborator Ian Caple can be found here.
  • Martyn Barker has been writing and playing with Sarah Jane Morris.
  • The David Marx website gives details of David's various projects, most notably The Refugees' album 'Lovejunk' featuring Barry on keyboards.
  • Clare Hirst, early Shriek and now jazz musician, has her own site.
  • Info on another early Shriek, Brian Nevill, can be found on the Pigbag website.
  • Murray Lachlan Young recorded 'The Lost Album' with Shriekback back in 1995, but then it got - well - lost.