Woodstock? Stick it up your hole, bleeding hippies!

Apes, Ivory and Peacocks

Into The Mainstream

A demo of a new song with some old lyrics - I have no idea when I wrote most of these words, lol! However, having rediscovered and updated them I've been busy putting them to the first completely new S.I.G. song for a fair while.

Snarling White Horses

Cover of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie's early 90s single, Blacker Than Black. A bit folky the way it's turned out!

Blacker Than Black

This song has been demoed several times but I knew that I wanted more from it. I think I've finally got to where I want it to be, hope you agree. Catherine Wheels go round and round!

Catherine Wheel

In the midst of Covid-19 we can but hope for better times ahead. Here's a little something that has come out of me being isolated/socially distanced which shows that even in the dark there is something to look forward to. Stay safe everyone x

Single

The Isolation Stomp

An updated version of the original 1985 line ups' set opener, originally just an instrumental. The 2020 version is musically based on the original with a similar main theme and has an added lyrical story.

Horror Show

40 years ago I wrote a song called Alien for a band I was in called Reflex. It was basically about a gang of us going to see the film Alien at the local fleapit in Stamford, Lincs (The Central) and obviously we were all under age seeing as it was an X-rated film. In the grand tradition of sequels I've taken the riff from the verse of the original and added a bit of 60s bubblegum for the chorus while the lyrics reflect back to the original as well as wondering what some of the gang are up to nowadays.

Hey You! (Alien 2)

An instrumental version of a song that I've done several demos of over the years and very definitely shows off certain major influences. 

This one has been sitting around since 2019 and but for Covid would have had vocals done by a friend of mine who has years' of experience and her first band in the early 80s produced one of my favourite albums, definitely in my Top 10. I'm not at liberty to say who but it may still happen. For now, it remains an instrumental.

"Not Like I Do": the lyrics, if/when you get to hear them, are written about someone very dear to my heart that is known by me as one thing but to most other people as something else. Cryptic enough?

Not Like I Do

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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