a man out of time (reactivate the sediments)

it is the 5th anniversary of the first snatch foster band gig.

1990 or so - horsemouth was in a band called bush house in hackney. horsemouth is playing guitar, nick was the stand in bassist for a number of gigs when andy was away and earlier had taken the band up to RAK studios (where he was working as tape op) to record their first few tracks. later horsemouth would share a house with nick.

2009 or so - horsemouth moves back up  to stoke newington and meets his old friend nick on a bus - horsemouth records 4 songs round nick's (two of which make it up onto myspace partie de campagne  (a long slide guitar piece) and picardy -  though with picardy horsemouth adds iona playing recorders and oboe round hers).



meanwhile  the snatch foster band 

nick also wants to play his songs  live. it seems (to horsemouth) an attempt to recreate new wave, to explore what was interesting and distinctive about that genre - to reactivate the sediments.. after trying out on guitar horsemouth decides it would be more fun if he played bass, and gets rust in on 2nd guitar. horsemouth reasons that rust is much more into indie guitar than he is, plus he's worked on songs with rust and knows that rust can play and has a whole rack of incomplete songs that would probably sit in better with nick's stuff than horsemouth's stuff.

with clive (the drummer)they play 4 gigs in the space of two years 2010-2012, they are mostly playing 3 nick's songs 3 green letters, dave now though there's some work (about 5 minutes) on doing the devil song with the band or in doing versions of some of rust's songs, they do a version of gentleman john and once (at the christmas gig) they do a version of in the bleak midwinter. 

horsemouth enjoys playing bass (and would gladly do it again) - but it often left him with blood blisters on his bass-playing finger.

Gig List
27th November 2010 - Hope and Anchor Islington

11th December 2010 the Victoria Queensbridge Rd. with the Santa Belles (a gertrude side project) - a drummer-less gig.

31st July 2011 downstairs at what used to be The Three Crowns/ Bar Lorca (best gig)

winter 2011/12 Islington (just by the tube - downstairs again)

horsemouth diidn't play bass on any of their recordings - they also played some covers,  elvis costello's (could you still love) a man out of time (which pretty much is the band in a microcosm), andy partridge's young marrieds,  and from the 3rd gig onwards wire's outdoor miner (great fun to play live).

at iona's birthday party in 2012 horsemouth, with rust playing guitar sings 3 songs -golden hair (by syd barrett and james joyce), gentleman john (by himself and rust,  with nick singing a backing vocal), and the devil song (written by his good self). and that (as they say) was that.

nick continues to write and record as does horsemouth. clive still plays. of rusty horsemouth knows nothing.