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====== 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 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/face-in-the-crowd-the-family-that-blows-up-buildings/|The Family That Blows Up Buildings]] | Stride |
| 1985 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/glider/|Glider]] | Stride |
| 1985 | Sax ‘n’ Drums ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ 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 |

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==== 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

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==== The Family That Blows Up Buildings ====

1985 Stride (Step 58)

Rupert Loydell - Vocals, bass, synths, guitar, effects\\
Russell Kirk - Guitars, bass, percussion, backing vocals

  - Road of Evolution
  - Face in the Crowd
  - Nighrider
  - 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
  - Don't Move Around: (ii) I Stare and Stare
  - Don't Move Around: (iii) God's Intervention
  - Noise Ain't Dead
  - Total Order
  - Hendrix
  - Tunnel Vision
  - We Ran Clear
  - Parasite Remix

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==== Glider ====

1985 Stride (Step 59)

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//)

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==== Sax ‘n’ Drums ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ 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

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==== 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

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==== 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

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==== 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

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==== 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

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==== 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

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==== 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

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