vocals,
acoustic & electric 9 string guitar (7), keyboards, kalimba, tin whistle
The
Talking Fish
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Simon Styring - electric guitar, vocals
Neil Segrott - bass, electric guitar (2, 6), vocals
Alan Flanders - drums, percussion (2, 3, 6, 7, 9)
Captured In Time CC's 90s band comes alive again on these archive live recordings in the lively Leicester music scene of the time.
background
All proceeds to go to Neil Segrott and/or the Headway Brain Injury Charity.
Recorded live in Leicester at -
2, 3, 6, 9 - The Magazine 1994
1, 4, 5, 8 - The Princess Charlotte 1996
7 - The Royal Mail 1996
These recordings are a missing link in the recorded history of Chris Conway & The Talking Fish, the only songs band with drums I was ever in. Capturing the best tracks from 3 gigs, it also provides a real snapshot into the very lively Leicester music scene at that time.
CC talks about The Talking Fish
influences
David
Crosby, John Sebastian, Alan Stivell,
Jesse Colin Young, Dan Ar Braz,, Van Morrison
notes A Thousand Miles, Always Flying Home, I Want Something, Cad E Sin Don Te Sin/Lighthouse In A Storm, & Make It Real - were all recorded with Neil, Simon on my 2006 album "Flying Home".
Earth Rising - a proto form of the tune which was recorded on the 2000 album Earth Rising, and includes the Irish tune Bobby Caseys.
Inside Out - was a song I first sang with The Storm Thieves and it is they who recorded it with me on my debut songs album "Sounds Like Rain".
Three In The Morning - was also a song I sang with The Storm Thieves which I released on my 1997 "Storming" album.
So Long Blue - was eventually released on my 2002 "Alien Salad Abduction" album. An instrumental jazz recording of this tune was rleased on Chris Conway's Happy Landings albm Sky High.
Another Way Of Living - was a song I;d totally forgotten about for years until I rediscovered it and finally recorded it on my 2016 "Out Of The Blue" album.
Flying Home - I had to include this ending from another take of Always Flying Home to capture Simon Styring's stratospheric guitar solo! Another instrumental version of this song is on Chris Conway's Happy Landings 1994 jazz album "Think Blue, Count Two"
trivia
The
Talking Fish went from 1994 to about 2003.
The Talking Fish name comes from a very silly book by WE Bowman called Cruise Of The Talking Fish.
The music files were found on my hard drive - I'd mastered them in 2016 but for some reason decided not to release them then. I did a bit more mastering before release in 2021.
