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Clive Parker

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Clive Parker

Career

Clive Parker-Sharp (born Clive Parker) is a UK based drummer, most active in the punk, Post-punk and New Wave scenes. Clive was in the bands The Members, Spizzenergi, Athletico Spizz 80 (Rough Trade/A&M Records), Big Country, Scary Thieves (EMI), and went on to play with John Moore in the Expressway (Polydor). Also Clive had his own bands The Planets, Lopez & the Waveriders, Kingfishers Catch Fire, Holy Trinity, Barra (Sony-ATV/English Garden Records), and recently electronic guitar duo Marshall Star. Clive went on to management, and production, forming his own small record label. In 1992 he scored a minor dance hit with UK soul singer Kasie Sharp, co-writing as part of the pop dance production team One Horse Man, who were also released by Arcade Records in Europe.

Born in 1960 in Windlesham, Surrey, Clive played from the age of 9, cutting his teeth in local showbands, playing working men’s clubs and then Punk Rock groups in Camberley, the Home Counties and West London circuits, often with supports to groups like The Members, Eddie and the Hot Rods, at The Moonlight Club in Hampstead, and Nashville Rooms in West Kensington.

Clive plays with a traditional and matched grip, later double-bass drums, heavily influenced by Keith Moon and John Bonham, style non-strict and sometimes experimental or chaotic.

In 1979 Clive joined Spizzenegi after auditioning at a small rehearsal room in arches at Waterloo, London (also used by the Clash). Clive played on the hit Spizz album Do a Runner, (which spent 5 weeks on the UK charts in 1980), reaching number 27, and which was recorded and mixed at Berry Street studios in London over the spring bank holiday weekend in that year, and which featured the line up of Jim Solar, Mark Coalfield and Dave Scott. The band toured the USA later that year with 999, having signed to A&M records, as well as support to Siouxsie and the Banshees at New York Palladium, with the line up of Solar, Spizz and Lu Edmonds from The Damned. The Futurama festival appearance (supporting Gary Glitter, and Joy Division) at Leeds Queens Hall was filmed in 1979 for the film Urgh! A Music War.

With Spizz, Clive toured extensively in Europe and the USA supported The Clash, The Only Ones, Human League, and gave support tour slots to Tenpole Tudor, Altered Images, Department S, and The Mo-dettes. Most famously the band played a week of sold-out shows at London’s Marquee Club, with a matinee for younger fans.

With Scary Thieves, Clive toured the UK with Nik Kershaw

With John Moore, Clive toured the UK with Pop Will Eat Itself, Crazyhead, Living Colour, and the USA, dates with My Bloody Valentine, and solo.

Kingfishers Catch Fire played support to Deacon Blue, and toured the UK college circuit after a favourable showing in Melody Maker by writer Helen Fitzgerald.

Holy Trinity featured in the Mick Mercer book Gothic Rock (1998 Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-1546-6)

Discography

Singles

  • Spizz;

Athletico Spizz 80: June 1980 "No Room" "Spock's Missing" Rough Trade RTS05

Athletico Spizz 80: July 1980 "Hot Deserts" "Legal Proceedings" A&M AMS7550

Athletico Spizz 80: October 1980 "Central Park" "Central Park" (Dr. & Nurses dub version) A&M AMS7566

Spizzles: February 1981 "Risk" "Melancholy" A&M AMS8107

Spizzles: April 1981 "Dangers of Living" "Scared" A&M AMS8124

  • Scary Thieves;

Tell Me Girl (3:48) / Only Fascination (3:45) (7" Parlophone R-6085, 1984)

Tell Me Girl (6:37) / Tell Me Girl (3:48) / Only Fascination (3:45) (12" Parlophone 12-R-6085, 1984)

Dying In Vain (3:11) / Behind The Lines (4:00) (7" Parlophone R-6090, 1985)

Dying In Vain (Extended Version) / Dying In Vain (Remix) / Behind The Lines (12" Parlophone 12-R-6090, 1985)

The Waiting Game (Extended Version) (6:19) / The Waiting Game (Radio Version) (4:13) / Live In Another Day (2:55) (12" Parlophone 12-R-6094, 1985) — first pressing with limited edition poster

Tell Me Girl (Extended Version) (6:29) / Tell Me Girl (Radio Version) (3:54) / Only Fascination (3:45) (12" More Disco MORE-09, 1994)

  • Kingfishers Catch Fire;

Radio Kampala / Bella / Battle Scars, 12” vinyl EP, KCF111, 1986 Furry/Rough Trade

Blushing Red / Never Never, vinyl limited edition double A-side KCF112 1987 Furry/Rough Trade

  • Kasie Sharp;

Pulling the Strings, (mixes by Stonebridge, Sharp Boys, Kamasutra), Undiscovered UND008,1996

  • One Horse Man

Fuego / Bamba Generation, double A-side 12” vinyl, Royal/Arcade 530.00.06

  • Marshall Star;

Get On / Heaven Help Me, 2000, Furry, promo CD and download only

Any Second Now/Dream On, double A-side vinyl, Furry KCF113, 2003

Albums

  • Spizz;

Do A Runner (as Athletico Spizz ’80) (July 1980: A&M)

Spikey Dream Flower (as Spizzles) (April 1981: A&M)

  • Scary Thieves;

Scary Thieves - Inside the Night (3:46) / Game of Love (4:19) / Tell Me Girl (6:37) / The Waiting Game (4:26) / Halloween (3:07) // Live In Another Day (2:55) / Dying In Vain (3:17) / Fascination (3:44) / Somebody Somewhere (3:54) / Thieves of Virtue (5:18)

  • Barra;

Eternal Magus - English Garden / Hi-Note Music ENG1025, 2002 (Eternal Magus, Gifts for Violet, Gnosis, Green Man, Journey, Palestine, Seafever, Universe, Battlescars, Badda, Never Never, Silverman, Blushing Red, Power of Three, Seafever (version 2))

  • Marshall Star;

Uncontrollable - Furry KCF 114, 2004 (Everybody, Fallen Angel, Wish I, My Love, Never met a Man, Love is All, Dream On, Will you (turn it up), Superstar, Sweet Sensation, Never Mind)

Cosmos - Furry KCF 115, 2008 (Goodbye Truly, Hopes & Aspirations), Indiana, The Pleasure Seekers, A promise for Tomorrow, The Visionary, Slipped Away, Keep it Up, Seagull, The Dotted Line, My Last Goodbye, Take Me)

Compilations

  • Spizz;

Spizz History (November 1983: Rough Trade)

The Peel Sessions (February 1987: Strange Fruit)

Unhinged (March 1994: Damaged Goods)

Spizz Not Dead Shock: A Decade of Spizz History 1978 - 88 (May 1996: Cherry Red)

Where’s Captain Kirk (May 2002: Cherry Red)

Urgh! A Music War (October 1989: A&M Records)

  • Scary Thieves;

December 84 - Previews (DMC 1984) — Tell Me Girl 12"

Hardest Hits Volume One (SPG 1991) — The Waiting Game 12"

Hardest Hits Volume Two (SPG 1992) — Tell Me Girl 12"

Techno Pop 2 (Contraseña 1998) — Tell Me Girl 12"

  • Kasie Sharp;

Full On House, DCI 1997, (featuring mixes by Fat Boy Slim), DCBX104

Present-day

Clive Parker lives in East Sussex with his wife, writing, also playing guitar and keyboards.

Kasie Sharp

Marshall Star

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