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1979 Rehearsal Tape - Early Version Of  DENTURE BEACH by Manchester Post Punk  band Biting Tongues.

17 Biting Tongues play Denture Beach(Early Version)

Toolshed play Wok & Goblet .4 drummers ,Brass, Guitar ,Bass

Wok & Goblet (Toolshed @ QEH London)

Jazz Cruise Lifeboat Assembly April Intro

Bond Evolution (808 State)

recorded in studio 101

Bombadin Demo version

Paint Stripper (Danny & The Dressmakers. 1979)

Todular

Time Starting Now
In Exchelcise
Seen from a Bridge
Down down

New Elba View
Men in White Room
Bolt on the Blue
Last Round

Eye Eye Optic Eye
Three in a Capsule
Hear Them Die

Eye Eye Septic Eye
Sword & Shield  was meant to fly

Eye Eye Nantwich Eye
Down in a Salt mine see Flat Guy

Eye Eye Nimrod Eye
Chair in the Sky
I  Columbi

Realm Of Defence
Talk in Fire
Tame and Invent
Bronze

No Common Sense
Leads it Forward
Bells Of The Realm
Hang

Eye Eye Optic Eye
Chair in sky
I Columbi
Eye Eye Nimrod Eye
I Columbi 
I Columbi

Time was now
Twas Exchelcise
Sodium Night
Gold

Great Shard Of Light
Lead Us Forward
Tame and Delight
Be Right Now



Sisterhead/The Sisters of Transistors

Track made with Skyline electric piano , soviet combo organ,old drum box,Arp Synths.

Skyline

Graham Clark On Violin,Graham Massey on Electronics ,Paddy Steer on Double Bass.

Sinequat (Toolshed)

01 Dakota Oak Trio -Masseymix

 Massonix Recorded live at The Warehouse Project Manchester 2006

Souflex

Remix of the Sisters of Transistors album track Tiger Ghee
from the album 'At The Ferranti Institute"
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TIGER GHEE -LYNCHMOB REMIX ( Sisters Of Transistors)

Graham Massey's  deepdive mix made from the 808 State's archive of alt versions , B sides and remixes .Originally commisioned for The UFO Project in 2022.

808 State archive  Mix for UFO Project

Live Recording of Manchester Post Punk Group Biting Tongues
at The Moonlight Club West Hampstead (formally Klooks Kleek)
May 11th 1981
Ken Hollings -Vocal
Colin Seddon -Bass
Graham Massey -Guitar
Howard Walmsley - Tenor Sax
Eddie Sherwood - Drums

Biting Tongues  play Heart Disease live at The Moonlight Club West Hampstead 11/05/1981

Raindance (Masseys Brutal Mix)

TOOLSHED  rehearsal  tapes .Sam Healey -Alto sax & Yamaha Organ,Craig Hanson -Drums, Paddy Steer-Bass Guitar,Graham Massey -Hammond Organ,Synth, Soprano Sax.

TOOLSHED Ellis 3

TOOLSHED rehearsal tapes 2016. Graham Massey -Guitar, Sam Healey-Alto Sax & Yamaha Organ, Paddy Steer -Bass, Craig Hanson -Drums.

TOOLSHED Job Mob 3

alternative early version of The Only Rhyme That Bites
18th November 1989. 
Spirit Studios Manchester. 
The more welll kown version by 808 State was started on 5 1 90 using the Big Country Strings.

The only rhyme that bites /  demo /MC TUNES/ mp3

song about ozzy osbourne 's fear of an empty biscuit tin.

Danny And The Dressmakers ....ozzy biscuit

You' ll Be Sorry

12 El Rey De Ray (Warm Gulf Water Rising)

Big band meets techno,filmic  widescreen jazz landscapes,two drummers trombone quartet,
analogue synths, fender rhodes.

Mathematica (Toolshed)

Toolshed perform a Biting Tongues Tune -45 47A .At Manchester Jazz Festival 2016.

Toolshed Jazz Fest 12 4547a

303, 606, oberhiem four voice, Clavinet,moog additions to Pronoid- summer 08

pronoid (by Chrome Hoof) Massey Mix

The Beach Surgeon live at The Cypress Tavern Manchester 1981 
Improvisation for Roland CR330 drum Machine and Glockenspiel
Support act to Crispy Ambulance ,Part of a regular night organised by The Manchester Musicians Collective.

The Beach Surgeon -Live At The Cypress Tavern 1981(Glockenspiel & CR330)

The last track made  by Biting Tongues (then a duo of Graham Massey /Howard Walsley )in 1989 .Recorded At Strawberry Studios Stockport.

Biting Tongues -303 track from Strawberry Studios 1989

808 State play 10 x 10 @ On Air Tokyo 1993.
Featuring Rachel MacFarlane & Barrington Stuart on vocals.
Happy Birthday Barrington .R.I.P.

808 State play 10x10 live tokyo 93.

From the album "At The Ferranti Institute"
Sisters Of Transistors combo organ quartet.
http://massonix.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/ferranti-institute-2009-i-had-been.html

Volkswagen (The Sisters Of Transistors)

The Bells (ATP)massonix

Late 80s Biting Tongues recorded at Spirit Studios on 8 track. Manchester  1987.Howard Walmsley -Saxes ,Graham Massey -Guitar ,Juno 106 synth,FZ1 Sampler -Steve Jones -Bass,Tom Barnish -Trombone ,Conan -Drums.

Biting Tongues - Split Link

Toolshed Big Band play Sun Ra's Watusa  at Bridgewater Hall Manchester.

Watusa (Toolshed Big Band)

Graham Massey - best known as a founding member of 808 State , my musical timeline starts in the mid 70s to  the present day . Projects include Biting Tongues (Factory Records)TOOLSHED (Finders Keepers)Massonix (Skam) Danny & The Dressmakers,Sisters Of Transistors 

Graham Massey (Massonix)

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