Peddlar of Punk. Meddlar of Mod. Hearer of Dubness. Wearer of heart on sleeve. Practiser of playing. Pop drinker and revel maker at Gimmix Records. Maker of The Feb 21s Brit-beat combo. "Absolutely excellent!!!" – declareth DJ Alan May of The Glory Boy Mod Radio Show of their now obsolete 3-track EP Three Piece Sweet released in 2015. 

Bragging rights: Gary was the very last person ever to see Small Faces and Humble Pie front man Steve Marriott alive, just hours/minutes before his awful death In a house fire in north Essex. Gary has gigged at The Astoria, The Marquee, Underworld, The Standard and Club Circa. He once worked with The Stranglers on their ‘Strangled’ magazine and now edits and publishes ‘The Burning Up Times’ at www.strangled.co.uk and has music-written for Record Collector and the Guardian. Gary once lived round the corner to Blur's Damon Albarn. Gary's alumni include electronic pioneer Fad Gadget, Ground Force's Tommy Walshe and Coutt's least best banker, Nick Leason. Gary once had S Club 7 singer Jo O’Meara as vocal coach. Gary is a brilliant interior designer and gardener. Gary is also a Senior Government Operative in Healthcare  




S.I.G. originally formed in 1985 in Stamford, Lincs and consisted of Carole Smith  (vocals), Dale Farrow (guitar and vocals), Danny Goode (drums) and  Andrew Zamorski (bass) playing predominantly original material written by Dale with the odd cover thrown in. Although short lived, the mix of punky/gothy/dreampoppy/twangy songs with both female and male lead vocals has always been Dale’s “thing” musically and during the last couple of years he has resurrected some of the original material along with material written in the interim right up to brand new stuff and as well as the songs the band name has also been resurrected although Dale is the only original member involved. 

Currently S.I.G. is a studio-based project with Dale working closely alongside Del Bartle (The Sid Presley Experience, The Unholy Trinity, Citizens of Nowhere, The Converters, The Godfathers etc) with the aim of completing an album, “Apes, Ivory and Peacocks” with a likely single being “Watch and Wait”. As for live performances, who knows as those involved are rather spread across the country but never say never.

During the lockdown of 2020 Dale wrote and recorded "The Isolation Stomp" at home and this is now available as a download single in support of Rock Off Fibro to help them raise awareness of the debilitating chronic pain condition fibromyalgia as well as depression and PTSD. This can be found on S.I.G.'s Bandcamp page (see link). 

There are now also videos available to watch on the band's YouTube channel and you can keep up to date with news, releases, new videos, merch etc by liking us on the Facebook page(see links).

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