====== 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 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/face-in-the-crowd-phoenix/|Phoenix]] | Stride | | 1985 | The Family That Blows Up Buildings | Stride | | 1985 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/glider/|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 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/face-in-the-crowd-singing-on-the-narrow-ledge/|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 ------