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| 80.1 | Vanished, like an old oak table | SUBURB::SUMMERFIELDC | Living on a knife edge | Tue May 24 1988 12:57 | 20 |
| Started off as a 2 piece, became a 4 piece, then a 5 piece, then
a 4 piece, then a 5 piece, Geoff Mann left to become an active
christian, recruited Andy Sears, signed for Virgin, vanished up
their own orofice (sp?).
Good Albums: Live at the Target
Fact and Fiction
Live and let Live
Average: Art and Illusion
Smiling at Grief
Give it a miss: Twelfth Night
Someone once said that Twelfth Night's chances of success were '...
one in Marillion...'. I think the odds have lengthened.
Anything new to add ?
Balders
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| 80.2 | Wow! Someone's heard of them! | COMICS::KEY | careful with that VAX eugene... | Tue May 24 1988 17:06 | 9 |
| Ah, happy memories, buried in the crypt-like confines of the Target
Club. "Twelfth Night" was the album relased on Virgin, wasn't it?
Andy Sears was as good a vocalist as Geoff Mann (i.e. pretty awful)
but I think the rest of the band had lost heart by then. "Live at
the Target" is one of my all-time favourite albums. I'd still like
to know what happened to them - I assume the Virgin deal fell through
after the less-than-stunning sales of the last album.
Andy
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| 80.3 | Mann vs Sears | SUBURB::SUMMERFIELDC | Living on a knife edge | Tue May 24 1988 21:49 | 16 |
| Like a lot of progressive rock vocalists, both Andy Sears and Geoff
Mann lacked ability, however... Geoff Mann made up for this in
conviction, Andy Sears compensated by being a c**ks**ker, I mean,
picture this.
Audience: "Sequences, Sequences, Sequences .... " (typical crowd
chant)
Andy Sears: "I dont know why you keep asking for that one, because
we never play it now"
On this subject, give Geoff Mann's solo album 'I May Sing Grace'
a miss. Apart from Piccadilly Square' and 'Slow One' it's born again
christianity.
Balders
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| 80.4 | y | ODIHAM::POORE | Stuart Poore, SRAC, Basingstoke, UK | Thu Jul 14 1988 20:38 | 15 |
| If anyones still interested...
After the Virgin album flopped, CLive left to set up his own studio
with some money he'd inherited. Then Andy Sears left. They recruited
a new lead singer. Did a demo for Virgin, who then dropped there
contract.
Last I heard they where a three piece under a new name supporting
Geoff Mann's current band The Bond at a Marquee gig last September.
I saw The Bond at last year's Greenbelt & chatted to Geoff a while.
The seem to be doing quite well. There album 'Won by One' is on
Marshall records.
Stuart P. (Ex Twelfth Night fan).
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| 80.5 | De Boyz | SHAPES::FIDDLERM | | Fri Apr 28 1989 15:56 | 6 |
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Clive and his studio are doing very well for themselves now. The
guys are talking about releasing an lp of unreleased stuff, I'll
check on this.
Mike (nevera big fan, but always on the side of the underdog)
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| 80.6 | R.I.P. | WOTVAX::FIDDLERM | My time in hell is spent with you | Wed Feb 17 1993 15:35 | 11 |
| Geoff Mann, the former vocalist with Twelfth Night, died recently after
a short fight with cancer. He was 36, and leaves a wife and three
young children.
I was never the worlds biggest Twelfth Night fan, and I only got a
couple of Geoffs solo albums on tape, but his integrity and sense of
vision were always impressive. I believe he was actually qualified as
a vicar, and was working somewhere near Manchester.
Mikef
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| 80.7 | Gutted. | SHIPS::RIOT01::SUMMERFIELD | Born of Frustration | Wed Feb 17 1993 16:28 | 11 |
| Sh*t. To say that there ain't no justice would be an understatement. Bad news.
I want to say something, but can't think what. I gave up on Twelfth Night when
Geoff left them after the famous Marquee Gigs (Live and Let Live). The man was an
inspiration. The qualities he exhibited made him stand out from the crowd for me.
The Collecter probably sums up Geoff perfectly. An amazing track that stated his
views and attitudes. His death is a loss.
In sadness
Clive
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