As shown on the Beautiful Debris CD, the bandmembers in Blair 1523 are Alan Duke (vocals/guitars/effects), Simon ‘Floyd’ Harris (guitars/noises), Andrew Jenkins (organ/vocals), Scott Moyle (bass/vocals), Tim Huxley (drums), and George Harris (tambourine/vocals/harmonica).
I ran across Alan Duke on a blog sponsored by Julian Cope, a long-time alternative rock musician who started out in the excellent band The Teardrop Explodes. (The site has security certificate problems, so I won’t identify it here, though those of you who want to could safely bring up the cached information; it is easy to locate). Duke’s first post on the “Unsung Forum” was on June 18, 2013:
“Hello to the initiated
“My name is Alan Duke who many moons ago fronted and wrote songs in a band called Blair 1523
“In my self indulgent net surfing way I often type our band’s name in and came across a thread of people talking about said band . . . Just want to open up any correspondence with people who wanted to know more. . I still think it was the biggest mistake and regret that we disbanded . . . . . .”
In a later post in the same blog, Alan Duke writes: “I’ve been doing some psych/noise/ambient/shoegaze stuff on the side myself in a project called Spaghettiman. I’m mostly known for my ‘noise’ project Foot and Mouth Disease though . . .”
(September 2013)
