Mitcham
Common |
After the
demise of The Field Mice, Bob Wratten, Annemari
Davies and Mark Dobson formed Northern Picture
Library. Relations with Sarah Records having become
somewhat awkward during the last days of The Field Mice,
Northern Picture Library made a clean start by accepting
an offer from Vinyl Japan to record a single and an album
for them.
The debut release was Love Song For The Dead Ché, a cover of a song by obscure late Sixties psychedelists United States of America, with Annemari on lead vocal. This was followed by an album, Alaska, and then another single, Blue Dissolve. Northern Picture Library was, throughout, a much less highly-strung project than The Field Mice, and the music - at least for these Vinyl Japan releases - more ambient and instrumental, less song-based. Annemari's stage-fright still prevented her performing live with the band, so Rob Waters (guitar) and Chris Martyn (bass) were drafted in to help - though some idea of the working practices of the band can probably be gained from the fact that they never actually all played together as a unit until their debut gig, at the Camden Falcon! |
