Face in the Crowd
Improvisational Ambient Noise
Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Rupert Loydell had a solo tape in 1983 called Mad as Fire on the Stride label. Loydell was also part of Megaton, a pop punk band, that had songs on various compilation tapes.
Discography
1984 | Phoenix | Stride |
1985 | The Family That Blows Up Buildings | Stride |
1985 | Glider | Stride |
1985 | Sax and Drums and Rock and Roll | Stride |
1986 | Playing Music to an Empty Room | Zeal SS |
1986 | Scratching for Termites: The Best of Face in the Crowd 1984-86 | Mystery Hearsay |
1986 | Nothing Left to Say | |
1986 | Infinite Wreckage | Medicinal Tapes |
1986 | Singing on the Narrow Ledge | Artaman |
1987 | Strange Disguise | |
Phoenix
1984 Stride (Step 4)
Rupert Loydell – Vocals (1-8, 9-11, 12), bass (1, 2, 4, 6, 9-11), synth (12)
Russell Kirk – Guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9-11, 12), bass (3), synth
Simon Dangerous – Drumatix (1, 2, 5, 7, 8), dangerous guitar (2)
Kathryn – Vocals (7)
Het Zweet – Backing tapes (9 & 10)
Tom of Megaton – Music (1, 2)
I Can Play
How Much Do You Know?
So You're all Little Anarchists?
Don't Go
Poem to Order
Total Eclipse
Somebody Else's Stranger
For Simon Pitt
No Sweat
Timeless
Call Them Us
The Sudden Stain..
Seduced by Colour
Corrugated Shadows
Breath of Warm Air
Chunter and Podge in the Friedhof
Huge Metropolis
Blister Already
Closed to the Public
Heavy Breathing
Phoenix
Feckless
Sun.Brick.Shadow
Glider
1985 Independent
New 7th Music performers: Tony Clough, Ashleigh Marsh, Heather Rolfe, Phil Kelday, Rebecca, and Steve Hildreth
Face in the Crowd performers: Rupert Loydell and Russell Kirk
New 7th Music - Mata Hari (recorded 7-28-1985)
Face in the Crowd - The White Man Does not Understand (recorded live 1-28-1985)
Rupert Loydell - Artaud Cut-Up (from Mad As Fire)
The Family That Blows Up Buildings
1985 Stride (Step 58)
Rupert Loydell - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, bass, backing vocals
Russell Kirk - Vocals, bass, synthesizer, percussion, acoustic guitar, effects
Road of Evolution
Face in the Crowd
Nightrider
Face to the Name
Dr. Fizz
Alchemy
Radio Rentals Man
Sudden Gamble
On the Blink
Think Aloud
I Thought I Saw all Heaven
Two Springs
Done It Again
Parasite
Don't Move Around: (i) Trussed with Barbs
(ii) I Stare and Stare
(iii) God's Intervention
Noise Ain't Dead (For Hibbs)
Total Order
Hendrix
Tunnel Vision
We Ran Clear
Parasite (Re-mix)
Sax and Drums and Rock and Roll
1985 Stride (Step 61)
Rupert Loydell - Vocals
Russell Kirk - Guitar
Rupert Loydell - Bass
Hibbs - Drums
Martin - Saxophone
Live concert recorded at Camm Street Centre, Crew, Cheshire UK, with guest saxophonist and drummer.
Factory Food
Total Eclipse
Dr. Fizz… …Clown
Face in the Crowd
Face to the Name
All Little Anarchists
A Strong Voice
How Much Do You Know?… Statement… Justice
Playing Music to an Empty Room
1986 Zeal SS
Performed by Rupert Loydell and Russell Kirk
There are no Easy Answers
We Have not Counted
Telepathischem
This is Revolution
Desert Lissener
My Mirror Aches
The Chilling Year
L.D.B.(Fragments)
Over These Stones Shall Live
Scratching for Termites: The Best of Face in the Crowd 1984-86
1986 Mystery Hearsay
Capturing the Whirlwind
I Can Play
How Much Do You Know?
Don't Move Around
Factory Food
Total Eclipse
Poor Julia
Don't Go
Somewhere, Sometimes
Only Have to Look
A Strong Voice
Face in the Crowd (live)
Face to the Name (live)
Justice
Nothing Left To Say
1986 Independent
Nothing Left to Say
Between Dark Dreams
Stab
Uphill All the Way
Practicing for Blindness
Until October
Poor Julia
Sunday Motorists
The Pain in My Head Went Away
Slowly How Slowly
Etudes
Colin Use Your Head
The Sound of an Inflatable Seagull
Interlude
All the Girls
Microwave Baby
We are Not Catching Any Whales
Unfinished
Infinite Wreckage
1986 Medicinal Tapes (0.197)
Infinite Wreckage
Only Have to Look
The Final Fling
Poor Julia (live)
Microwave Baby (live)
Only the River Runs Easy
Singing on the Narrow Ledge
1986 Artaman
Russell Kirk – Instruments, tapes, effects, noise
Rupert Loydell – Instruments, tapes, effects, noise
Tim Hodgson – Instruments, tapes, effects, noise
Martin Hibbert – Taped flute and vocals
Recorded live February 1986
At Least Six Years…
…What Are You Doing Tomorrow?
We Only Came to Dream
Rotating Globes
Singing on the Narrow Ledge
Attempts at Connection
Nameless Trees Flashed Past
Poor Julia (She Grew Very Strange)
Even Hate Has Some Truth in It
Even Hate Contd.
Power Chooses Its People
Strange Disguise
1987 Independent
Music by Rupert Loydell and Russell Kirk
Black Skirt in the Mirror
A Fine Design
Microwave Baby
Angel of the Last Chance/Primitve Eyes
One Aspect of a Thing
All the Girls
We are not Catching any Whales
On This Plateau
Capturing the Whirlwind
My Mirror Aches
The Ideal Person
The Chilling Years
L.D.B.
Poor Julia
Lost Dog Blues