BRING ON THE BEAT b/w

WHEN SNOWBOY'S ROCKING THE MIKE/GUAGUANCÓ R.J. -

SNOWBOY AND THE G.L. BAND

Snowboy - Vocal, Rap, Percussion

Bill Bailey - Hammond Organ and Oscar synth.

Graeme Lewis - Bass

Pete Jewitt - Guitar

Richard Dewhurst - Drums

Clive Dimmock - Alto Sax

Mick Seymour - Trombone

Graham Hunter - Trumpet

Released 1985 ARC RECORDS (CRAX001)

Notes:

My first single was a project put together by my friend BILL BAILEY and additional funding by another, ALLEN BURRELL. BILL just wanted to release a single as a project to see how it gets made and distributed etc. and so he asked me to do it. This E.P. represented what I was into then: The Washington Funk called GO GO, Rap (I was a regular Rapper at the U.K.'s first Rap night called THE LANGUAGE LAB, Gossips, Soho, London) and Latin (dedicated to my percussion tutor ROBIN JONES). BEAT got a lot of play on local radio and I did a couple of radio interviews, the Rap track got in the top ten of the BEAT BOX rap chart in BLUES AND SOUL   and the Guaguanco got Jazz Dance spins. This record was rough but it was my first one. There were only 750 pressed, and I remember us all sitting around our dining room table Prit-sticking the sleeves together!! I used to play percussion for a local 'alternative' music band called ANTIC HAY / BOMB PARTY / WARSAW and that's where the guitarist came from, by the way. Ah - HAPPY DAYS!