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Ugsy - band, feat; Phil Mason & Peter
Jackson both now with Odega. More info req'd.
Uh – acoustic version of Shallow
Madness who performed 2 gigs in 1978
Ulterior
Motive - band feat;
Paul Brady (drms) later of Crawl, Chris Leckie (owner of Ad Lib Audio).
More info req'd
Ulterior
Motive - band feat;
Dave King (bass) (later of Western Promise, Dancing in Exile). More info
req'd
Uncle
Joe - Wirral band
(c1987) involved with WASP collective. More info req'd
Uncle
Oscar - student jazz-tinged pop band (1986-88) feat; Gerard Greaves (voc,gtr) (ex Chalwa) (a classics graduate who became local newspaper
reporter), Phil Stone (bass) (ex Tin Gods), Mike Green (gtr) (ex
Chalwa), Ninesh Edwards (drms). Reached their
apogee with 1988 recording sessions (Mick Moss, prod.) and headlining
at
The
Unhealthy - band
feat; Johnny Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (gtr,voc), Mazz (Marie) Matazz
(bass), Steve Slaughter (drms). Used to feat Pete (bass) (now of After The
Massacre). Rec demo Apr04, rel 2 cds, 'Fuck That Shit' (Sep03), 'Skate Or Cry' (summer04),
split up summer05 (website)
Unit Q
- Hoylake based
punk band (1977-79) feat; Wayne Hudson (voc), Beaker (gtr), Stu Crosby (drms)
and another gtr. Played regularly across Wirral, often at The Hamilton in
B'head with Abort The Attack (ATA) etc.Regulars at The Rakers in Hoylake. A
live tape of a
Unrest
- punk band (split
1993). Longest lasting format was Andy Killian (drms), Marc McDermott (gtr),
Baz Clarke (bass), Fat John (Collins) (voc) and Jackie Swanson (voc). Read ace biog
Up And Running - band (formed 1986) feat; Philip Franz Jones (ex Afraid of Mice)
& Alex McKenchie (ex Modern Eon, Passage). Prev called Two's A
Crowd, changed name late 87 and rel 4 track demo ‘Sorry’ (TAC Recs
Dec87). Fan, Graeme Jackson saw them sell out the Royal Court each year
from 87-90. He also states, ‘They had what should have been a hit with Johnny & Marie but
it was not representative of their music, there was an excellent version of
country classic Ruby on the B-side. They did a classic love song
"but badly sung" Beautiful View. Also a 7" version of
Stand By Me with half of Liverpool on it. Shame it never happened, they were a
good crowd pleaser, it all petered out very sadly. I saw them a
while later in an Irish bar doing the same standards but all the fire was
gone. I loved 'em.’
Upsets -
band, feat; Adrian Mitchell (gtr), Marc Vormawah (gtr) (later Personal Column), Sue James (bass) (ex Stopouts), John Jones (drms) (ex
Stopouts). Had I Don't Know Why on the Skeleton comp 'A Trip To
The Dentist'. Sue and Adrian went onto an early incarnation of Dead Or Alive.
Urban
Strawberry Lunch -
"USL means fresh funky beats, floor shakin’ bass, urban melodies. They
beat the crap outta scrap and the funk outta junk. Yield to the hard hitting
sound of the street". The latest project of Ambrose Reynolds (ex Ded
Byrds, Pink Industry) joined by Karl
John (drms), Liz Carlise (voc), and Andy Escott and described as a textural
audio project. Began in 1988 by Ambrose with long departed B F Tin as 'an
antidote to the problem of to make music on a very low budget. The
answer?...make your own instruments!' Have been described as 'mesmeric,
exciting and innovative' The Guardian; 'the world's finest scrap metalists'
M'Chester Evening News. They have played all the major UK festivals, and across
the globe. They have a multi media CD available (£5 plus £2.50 P&P) from
the contact address. Urban Strawberry Lunch, PO Box 223, Liverpool, L69 8LR (website)
US
Companion – Kirkby
band (formed Jul84), feat; Lisa Barton (voc), Tony Barton (bass) (ex Lunjay
Blue Armey, Bushfinder), Paul Beckett (voc) (ex That Volcano, later Lager
Lager), Kevin Kelly (gtr) (ex Cook da Books, later Lager Lager,
Freeze Frame, China Crisis), Peter Laiden (keys) (ex Lunjay Blue Armey).
Band split in 1985 but reformed a year later. Line up between Jul & Sep87;
Tony, Lisa & Paul with Brian Ather (gtr), Mark Vermig (keys), Nick Bellis
(drms), Colin Payne (sax) (ex Lunjay Blue Armey). By Sept Brian had left to be
replaced by Phil Hughes (gtr) (ex Some Party, Bushfinder) & they
changed their name to Push Push. In early days they used different
guitarists & drummers inc; Ronnie o’Keefe (gtr) (ex Builders, Secluded
Places), Paul Reason (gtr) (ex Ex Post Facto, later Keep It Dark),
Alan Pendergast (drms) (ex Manteau), Mark Coleridge (drms) (ex Ex Post
Facto, Afraid of Mice), Dave Rielly (drms) (later Jo Jo & The
Real People). Phil Hughes says, ‘We were more or
less a reincarnation of Bushfinder with a change of singer and drummer but this
came to an end after a couple of years.’
Useless
– punk club run by members of Zombina & The Skeletones up until Feb05
Usurpa
– West DerbyVillage
band (1989-93) feat; Mark Melia. Rel Justice of a Different Kind demo
followed by Prisons of The Mind. More info req'd
Utopia
Dream – Widnes band (formed late82),
feat; Dave Fenlon (later Wake Up
Afrika, 35 Summers)
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