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Clive Parker

Clive Parker (born 1960) also known as Clive Parker-Sharp, is a UK based drummer, active in the punk, post-punk and New Wave genres. He 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).

Parker had his own bands The Planets, Lopez & the Waveriders, Kingfishers Catch Fire, Holy Trinity, Barra (Sony-ATV/English Garden Records), and electronic guitar duo Marshall Star. Clive went on to management, and production, forming his own small record label.

In 1992, Parker had 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.[1][2]

Personal background

Parker was born in 1960, in Windlesham, Surrey. He lives in East Sussex with his wife. He writes, and plays guitar and keyboards.

Professional background

From the age of nine, Parker played in local show bands and working men's clubs. He also joined punk rock groups in Camberley, the Home Counties, and West London circuits, often as support band to groups like The Members, Eddie and the Hot Rods, at The Moonlight Club in Hampstead, and Nashville Rooms in West Kensington.

Parker 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, Parker joined Spizzenegi after auditioning at a small rehearsal room in arches at Waterloo, London (also used by the Clash). That same year, the band appeared at the Futurama festival, along with Gary Glitter and Joy Division. The festival, which was recorded for the film Urgh! A Music War, took place at Leeds Queens Hall.

In 1980, Parker played on the Athletico Spizz 80 album, Do a Runner, which spent five weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 27.[3] The album was recorded and mixed at Berry Street studios in London over the spring bank holiday weekend, and featured Jim Solar, Mark Coalfield, and Dave Scott in the line up.

Having signed to A&M Records, the band toured the United States later that year with 999. During the tour, and with Solar, Spizz and Lu Edmonds from The Damned as the line up, they played the Palladium in New York City as support band to Siouxsie and the Banshees.

With Spizz, Parker toured extensively in Europe and the United States, supporting The Clash, The Only Ones, and the Human League. Spizz tours also featured support bands Tenpole Tudor, Altered Images, Department S, and The Mo-dettes.

Spizz played a week of sold-out shows at London's Marquee Club, with a matinee for younger fans.

With Big Country - Dunfermline Glen Pavillion (first ever BC gig), and dates with Alice Cooper Armed Forces tour.

With Scary Thieves, Parker toured the UK with Nik Kershaw.

With John Moore, Parker toured the UK with Pop Will Eat Itself, Crazyhead, and Living Colour. Dates in the United States in addition to solo appearances, included performances with My Bloody Valentine.

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.

Discography

Singles

Spizz
  • Athletico Spizz 80: June 1980 "No Room" "Spock's Missing" Rough Trade
  • Athletico Spizz 80: July 1980 "Hot Deserts" "Legal Proceedings" A&M
  • Athletico Spizz 80: October 1980 "Central Park" "Central Park" (Dr. & Nurses dub version) A&M
  • Spizzles: February 1981 "Risk" "Melancholy" A&M
  • Spizzles: April 1981 "Dangers of Living" "Scared" A&M
Scary Thieves
  • "Tell Me Girl" (3:48)/"Only Fascination" (3:45) (7" Parlophone, 1984)
  • "Tell Me Girl" (6:37)/"Tell Me Girl" (3:48)/"Only Fascination" (3:45) (12" Parlophone, 1984)
  • "Dying In Vain" (3:11)/"Behind The Lines" (4:00) (7" Parlophone, 1985)
  • "Dying In Vain" (Extended Version)/"Dying In Vain" (Remix)/"Behind The Lines" (12" Parlophone, 1985)
  • "The Waiting Game" (Extended Version) (6:19)/"The Waiting Game" (Radio Version) (4:13)/"Live In Another Day" (2:55) (12" Parlophone, 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, 1994)
Kingfishers Catch Fire
  • "Radio Kampala"/"Bella"/"Battle Scars", 12" vinyl EP, 1986 Furry/Rough Trade
  • "Blushing Red"/"Never Never", vinyl limited edition double A-side, 1987 Furry/Rough Trade
Kasie Sharp
  • "Pulling the Strings" (mixes by Stonebridge, Sharp Boys, Kamasutra), Undiscovered, 1996
One Horse Man
  • "Fuego"/"Bamba Generation", double A-side 12" vinyl, Royal/Arcade
Marshall Star
  • "Get On"/"Heaven Help Me", 2000, Furry, promo CD and download only
  • "Any Second Now"/"Dream On", double A-side vinyl, Furry, 2003

Albums

Spizz
  • Do A Runner (as Athletico Spizz 1980) (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, 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)

Compilation albums

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)
  • Various - New Wave Soft Class-X 1 (AS5085: Antler Subway)
  • Ausweis - Ausweis - Red And Black (Spizzenergi) (Paris - Théâtre De L'Eldorado Concert WW - 30/03/84) (No.13: V.I.S.A)
Scary Thieves;
  • December 84 – Previews (1984) – Tell Me Girl 12"
  • Hardest Hits Volume One (1991) – The Waiting Game 12"
  • Hardest Hits Volume Two (1992) – Tell Me Girl 12"
  • 'Techno Pop 2 (Contraseña 1998) – Tell Me Girl 12"
Kasie Sharp

References

  1. ^ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kasie+Sharp
  2. ^ http://www.discogs.com/One-Horse-Man-Fuego-Bamba-Generation/release/1877290
  3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 32. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

Further reading

  • Mercer, Mick. Gothic Rock Black Book, Omnibus Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0711915466
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