{"id":3891,"date":"2020-06-27T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T10:57:38","slug":"after-skip-bifferty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"After Skip Bifferty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In issue #105 ALASDAIR C MITCHELL chronicles the career of UK psych gods SKIP BIFFERTY. Here he sums up what came next<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/p01bqh5z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/p01bqh5z.jpg 960w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/p01bqh5z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/p01bqh5z-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Griffin - I am the noise in your head\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1mrPC2xTVUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GRIFFIN<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I Am The Noise In Your Head\u2019 (Bell, 45, 1969)<\/p>\n<p>Returning to London some months later, Colin Gibson founded a new outfit alongside former Happy Magazine men organist Kenny Craddock, guitarist Pete Kirtley and drummer Alan White. With the line-up later completed by Graham Bell, the group gained traction at The Marquee and recorded a well-received <em>Top Gear <\/em>session. The Alan Price-produced \u2018I Am the Noise in Your Head\u2019 appeared in September 1969, a foreboding hard-rock number picking up from where Heavy Jelly left off, but destined to suffer the same fate when Don Arden, that perpetual Hellhound on their trail, intervened in his customary fashion, ensuring that this fantastic beast would never take flight. Gibson and Craddock enlisted in \u00a0Ginger Baker\u2019s Airforce, and later reconvened with Kirtley on by then Yes-man White\u2019s \u201976 solo offering <em>Ramshackled<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Every Which Way = Every Which Way - 1970 - ( Full Album)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9qFDNGdTdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BRIAN DAVISON\u2019S EVERY WHICH WAY<\/p>\n<p><em>S\/T<\/em> (Charisma, LP, 1970)<\/p>\n<p>Graham Bell provides vocals, guitar, piano and the lion\u2019s share of the material to this lone album by drummer Brian \u2018Blinky\u2019 Davison\u2019s short-lived post-Nice ensemble. The reedy jazz-prog of \u2018All in Time\u2019 evokes Blodwyn Pig and Traffic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ARC - ...At This 1971 (full album)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HeW4IcZRoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ARC<\/p>\n<p><em>At This<\/em> (Decca, LP, 1971)<\/p>\n<p>John Turnbull\u2019s aggressively melodic guitar and Mickey Gallagher neo-classical piano stylings ride again on an eclectic brew which provides a glimmer of how Skip Bifferty may have sounded had they survived the \u201960s. \u2018Let Your Love Run Through\u2019 and the episodic two-pronged charge of \u2018Great Lager Street\u2019 \/ \u2018Hello, Hello Monday\u2019 find them excelling in the progressive field they helped to pioneer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arc &quot;Bell+Arc&quot; 1970 Uk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLakhpqxRrQuRaSxThKXQ5NJBoUho1j1Dz\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BELL + ARC<\/p>\n<p><em>S\/T<\/em> (Charisma, LP, 1971)<\/p>\n<p>This offering from later the same year saw the addition of Graham Bell, and featured contributions from Alan White and Kenny Craddock. A bluesier, more Transatlantic sound reflects the influence of the vocalist, in perhaps his finest voice on the slow-burning \u2018Yat Rock\u2019 and riveting \u2018Let Your Love Run Free\u2019. His self-titled solo album from 1973 represents another highlight of a diverse career that endured until he departed this life in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"alan hull &#039;pipedream&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLB1B83CF516BC6C66\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ALAN HULL<\/p>\n<p><em>Pipedream <\/em>(Charisma, LP, 1973)<\/p>\n<p>Childhood friends Gibson (&#8220;mental indecision, snuff and herbal tobacco&#8221;) and Turnbull (&#8220;orange juice, health foods&#8221;) are reunited with Kenny Craddock on their erstwhile mentor and Lindisfarne mainstay\u2019s first solo outing. The ambivalent \u2018Drug Song\u2019 and attractive instrumental \u2018STD 0632\u2019 are among the highlights of this enjoyably varied and wittily profound set. Gibson maintained a creative partnership with Craddock until the latter\u2019s death in 2002, but the venerable polymath\u2019s enviable r\u00e9sum\u00e9 continues to expand.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGkeRiGAYgauWzJkDt_KzC6Utj0nbKVxz<\/p>\n<p><em>S\/T<\/em> (More Love Records, LP, 1976)<\/p>\n<p>Following two albums with Glencoe, Turnbull and bassist Norman Watt-Roy congregated with Gallagher and drummer Charley Charles to promote a relaunch of Radio Caroline, recording a nostalgically flowery LP in Palm Springs which received a sparse distribution in The Netherlands. The hypnotic \u2018Love You To Know\u2019 is minimalistic reworking of Skip\u2019s \u2018Guru\u2019, whilst the <em>Who\u2019s Next<\/em>-ish \u2018Existence\u2019 hints at the band\u2019s imminent evolution into The Blockheads, with whom the one-time Bifferty boys remain to this day.<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F3891&#038;t=After%20Skip%20Bifferty&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F3891&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F06%2Fmaxresdefault-e1591439576830.jpg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=After%20Skip%20Bifferty\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F3891&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=After%20Skip%20Bifferty&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F3891\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In issue #105 ALASDAIR C MITCHELL chronicles the career of UK psych gods SKIP BIFFERTY. 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