Abandon Ship, We’re Sinking

“Abandon Ship, We’re Sinking! As the weeks of The Riverside Sessions went on the changes can be observed. The music was starting to coalesce on both the rhythmic and free-form bits and a group ‘sound’ was starting to emerge from out of the mayhem. Tentatively poking it’s head up above the ground to have a […]

Doncha Come Down No More

“It always takes time for things to come together when group activity is involved in creative endeavours. On these compilations of the first few weeks of playing regularly at the Riverside rehearsal rooms you can hear us getting ourselves sorted out and moving forward, with a nod to the past, even if we did not […]

Mother Get Up Those Stairs

“This is a compilation tape from the first 3 weeks of The Riverside Sessions recorded in 1985. The basic line-up is Paul Moller – guitar, saxophone, clarinet, voice, Mr. Rudeforth – radio, voice, Terry Parkinson – bass and Gary Burroughs – drums, keyboards. There is Mark Fells’ trumpet kicking around too. We had a tradition […]

The Voice Of Pan

1985 “Mark recorded The Voice Of Pan on a lo-fi tape at his flat in 1985 and I have tried to clean it up, I put some echo on it too because I think he would have probably done the same if he had the equipment.” – Paul Moller The playing-order The Voice Of Pan. […]

Lipstick Arcade

The soundtrack to Mark Fell’s film of the same name from 1985 “In 1985 while WKDN were playing nearly every week creating what shall be known as The Riverside Sessions, Mark was concentrating on his art and film-making. I always felt very fortunate to be associated with two very talented artists like Mark and Mr. […]