Alice's Orb

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UK Alice's Orb are a part time, principally studio based band and one of the few able to do a convincing imitation of early Pink Floyd. Their origins lie in a noisy Luton pub rock band, The Twitch, who were active in the area from 1983-87. This band split, but Jeff Ross and two of the other members kept The Twitch going for another two years. Some of this band's material was released posthumously. After The Twitch folded, Jeff joined a punk band called Chocolate Foetus, the pinnacle of whose career was supporting the Mega City Four. Inspired by listening to the home made efforts of Bevis Frond, he next bought a four track portastudio and began recording his own music along with Martin and Alan from The Twitch. The results of these early sessions were released as the Alice's Orb tape, the first release on Jeff's Strangely Brown label. Like all the Alice's Orb tapes, this first one was obscure (although it is still available from Acid Tapes), but an idea of the quality of Alice's Orb at this time can be gained from the three tracks that made it onto the debut album, Mr. Phelps, Mi Lady and Teardrops. They are all very primitive and with muddy sound quality, although Teardrops in particular is a fine song with its bizarre sound effects and spoken mid section. The debut album, Even The Grass Is Full Of Acid, took its strange title from a line in a Star Trek episode and was a compilation of material that appeared previously on tape. Despite the primitive nature of most of the re

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