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Sleeper Cell Live: Nick Harper: Guitar/Vocals - Moose:
Bass/Vocals - Dan Tozer: Drums
"Yes indeed
folks a meeting of the mindless was convened and Sleeper Cell
was born to protest against the Iraq War lies. Their brief: to
detonate sonic bombs in public places across the UK just like
Harper acoustic only much louder and much more thirsty. Sonic
terrorists with previous were recruited from the
Pants
movement to further our aims. First and foremost was a
commitment to make the highest sacrifice...and even worse - to
descend into cock rock if need be. Sleeper Cell - where every
guitar sound issues a fat wah (pedal).
Brother
Moose of legendary work in front of, behind and all across the
bar in the Lamb, Marlborough, who also had temporary work for 10
years or so playing bass with New Model Army and the Damned was
the first of the recruits. Known throughout the land as 'Moose',
Moose was soon to become, 'That bloke playing bass with Nick'...
Brother Dan - brilliant drummer with proper punk bands the
Lurkers, the Vibrators et al also took pity and with
(absolutely) no thought to his own career, decided to ignore the
pleas of ,'Don't do it Dan' and 'Anyone, but that Harper bloke'
because he agreed so much with Sleeper Cell's raison d'etre.
(particularly the thirsty bit). We then withdrew the ad in the
Evening Adver for a brass section/synth player and mime
artist/balloon manipulator and went straight into rehearsal... a
few weeks later. All this jollity was made possible by the
philanthropic benefaction (and shallow thought) of the kindly
Levellers machine whose wheels rumbled and beneath the weight a
rather large fee was squeezed out of their pensions to enable me
to put my team together. (The really frightening thing is that
no-one seems to be driving that thing, but hey, it's a hell of a
ride...) We were offered a prestigious slot at the Levellers own
Beautiful Days
festival - it was a call to Arms...and the Red Lion...and the
Dragon...in short - the mini mayhem tour was on..." |
