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| The God Machine, Dungeness, May, 1992 Photo by Steve Gullick (who has done many cool pics) |
| The God machine are: Robin-Proper Sheppard - guitar/vocals Jimmy Fernandez - bass Ron Austin - drums/piano History.... In their last summer of high school, in San Diego, USA, Ron, and Jimmy began to jam together, along with a freind. Albert Amman. Not playing covers, but choosing to go with a noise jam, they developed a sound. Over that summer they got more into it, and recruited Robin, who also went to their school, (in Chula Vista), as their singer. They formed a band called 'Society Line'. . They played out often and put out a demo, continuing to evolve their sound into heavy, atmospheric riffs and rhythms. Robin started playing the guitar at this point which added to the complexity and depth of the music. Robin, was unsatisfied with life, and decided to go to New York, where he spent many nights endlessly playing his guitar, wary of his neighbourhood. He came back after a few months, and reunited with the band who had kept playing without him. Albert Amman chose to finish his degree while the others set-off for New York. They travelled the US. They stayed a month or so in NY, and then decided on the spur of the moment, to come to England. They arrived with �100, two acoustics and Jimmys bass. After a short trip to Amsterdam, they met someone who lived in Camden, and offered to put them up, it was then that they got to work, under the namesaving money to buy equiptment, and writing new material. They played their first gig January 23rd, 1991. 1994, Prague. The band had just finished recording their 2nd album. Jimmy is suddenly rushed to hospital, falls into coma, and passed away that day from a brain tumour. He was 28. (R.R.I.P.) Robin and Ron still live in London but broke up the band straight after Jimmys death, understandably unable to continue. Ron directs, writes & produces films. Robin runs a record label called Flowershop, and has a band called 'Sophia' whos music is mainly acoustic, and is still haunted by the same themes. UPDATE! Sophia have a new album out (August 2002) so will they be touring? A BIG THANK-YOU TO THE GUY THAT RAN THE OLD GOD MACHINE SITE WHICH IS STILL LISTED ON YAHOO BUT IS SADLY NO LONGER AVAILABLE, STOLE ALL YOUR INFORMATION, BUT I COULDN'T ASK YOU COS YOU AIN'T THERE! CHEERS TO YOU, ALBERT AMMAN, & FRANKY CARBONERO (WHO ORIGINALLY MAILED YOU THE INFO.) |
| Discography... ( there was also a 'Purity' EP but no idea when that was released or what songs r on it) The Desert Song EP Cd/Vinyl 1992 the desert song prostitute commitment pictures of a bleeding boy Scenes from the second storey Cd/Vinyl album 1993 (fiction recs) dream machine she said the blind man I've seen the man the desert song home it's all over temptation out ego seven purity the piano song Home Cd/Vinyl EP 1993 (fiction recs) home double dare all my colours fever One last laugh in a place of dying Cd/Vinyl album 1994 (fiction recs) track list: the tremelo song mama alone in bad dreams painless the love song the life song the devil song the hunter evol the train song the flower song boy by the roadside the sunday song |
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| the god machine are a band that never broke into the mainstream. In the early nineties, they brought a beautifully sad, powerful and atmospheric sound to Britain, how grateful we still are... |
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