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Andy Fairley
12+ albums
On-U SounddubbristolelectronicSurreal Substance
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Andy Fairley The late, great Andy Fairley had probably the most distinctive vocal style of any artist to record for Adrian Sherwood. The Editor tells what he knows about this poet turned recording artist: In the early 1980s when freaks, musicians, poets, dreamers and others on the margins of society were still supported and patronised by the state in the form of the dole (= employment exchange, money support), art school dropouts Howard Purse and Doug White landed in Bristol, UK and masterminded the creation of the band Fish Food. Joined by local drummer Dan Swan, ex of the Cortinas, and poet Andy Fairley, the group began cooking up their fractured slices of surreal beat. Always on the fringe of the Bristol scene, the four rehearsed in their squat, a haunt for the likes of The Pop Group, Pig Bag and Scream & Dance, and played supporting local groups such as The Electric Guitars and The Art Objects and supported The Slits. Lurking in the Bristol music scene of the time, several of the bands lending the fledgling On-U Sound some of its first generation 'crew', the somewhat mysterious Fairley unsuprisingly also eventually came to the attention of Adrian Sherwood through the mutual contact of Mark Stewart. Andy Fairley was a modern-day poet; a s
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albums
Pay It All Back Vol. 3
System Vertigo
Fishfood vs Birth of Sharon
Fishfood vs the Birth of Sharon
Pay It All Back Vol.3
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On-U Sound Crash: Slash & Mix - Adrian Sherwood
Pay It All Back (Volume 4)
Pay It All Back Vol. 8
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Pay It All Back Volume 3
Pay It All Back Vol.4
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Pay It All Back Volume 4
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On-U-Sound - Pay It All Back 3