Winds Of Change

A meditation on the great last wilderness, Antarctica. Should we leave it be or should we exploit the hell out of it like we've done with everywhere else?!!!

Bnd of Brothers

Antarctica

The "B" Side of Dem Eyes. My impressions of Paris visit in 1973. 

06 - Solitude So Precious

From Max's Kansas City Volume II. Tom Spahn on piano. WNEW played this a lot in the summer of 1977. But I was in London putting the band together while it was on the air in NYC. Jeff the manager of the Max's label rang me from New York and said I should come back to gig - and also that Bruce Springsteen had  called him after hearing it and wanted to produce me. That sounded a bit weird to me and Mick Ronson had just joined my band in London - so I stayed put. Of course Mick then went on to produce this song for Ellen Foley

Night Out

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You & I

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Crystal Fighters - You & I (Nathan C remix)

Mick Ronson had joined the band in 1977 but he had to go to New York to do a gig and this Festival was booked and couldn't be move as it was being recorded. On the muti track you can hear someone in the audience ask "Where's Mick" - I replied he'd be at the next gig. So this is just me, Cochran and Jellyman. Although the track is live I did re-do the vocal in a studio later as the sound was shit and to be honest so was the vocal. Chris Briggs produced this and had a small row with Allan Jones who was Melody Maker editor at the time. When Briggs played it to him he said that it was cheat as we must over overdubbed extra lead guitar and didn't believe that it was just me on my own live. He was wrong about the guitar - but didn't notice the vocal - smooth mixing. People mistakenly think it's either me and Ronno or - me and Jamie West-Oram . Maybe there is confusion about Jamie as he kindly played with me at my 60th birthday bash and that live version is on You Tube. He smokes it as well! 

Undergound Romance Album

From the demo session at Wessex with Mick Ronson that had Fallen, this was the backing track  - no time for overdubs

Young Lust

The Dark Secrets was formed by Jeff Parsons, Colin Holgate and Julia Hunn in 1989. It was a studio band which ran parallel to their live band Drum Animals; some songs were performed by both bands.
Dark Secrets recorded the album Disclosure at Colin's Mayfield Studio in Gilberdyke with the help of Col's son Gary and the support and encouragement of his other son Darren. Gary and Darren both played in Drum Animals too.
Jeff, as the main songwriter, was very keen to play guitar and bass and also (despite having at best a pretty poor voice!) to sing; as a songwriter Jeff says "you want to be able to sing your own songs". This meant playing live would be difficult as the guitar parts continued to grow!
In 2011 Jeff recorded new material under the Dark Secrets imprint in Hull with Dan Foster at the controls (also providing keyboards and angelic harmonies!) and Kelvin Baldwin on the drum stool. The first fruit of this endeavour is "Let Yourself Go" which is an old song Jeff had never recorded except for a Portastudio demo.
Three other songs were then completed and  uploaded; Serious Future, The Space Age and My Soul Is Crying Out For You are older songs which, like Let Yourseld Go, have never been definitively recorded until now! These were then released as the "Stratagems" EP.
Other tracks are demos and works in progress from the post-Disclosure period, except for Metallic Blue which is an ambient improvisation which Jeff developed to accompany an art exhibition at the East Riding College, where he used to teach on a contemporary music course.
The band has now finished recording its second full-length album, a mere twenty-three years after the first, which is available now! It's called "Band Of Brothers" and features twelve brand-new recordings from Hull's Element Studio.
