Talk:Simon Colley/@comment-86.182.93.59-20140528175240

Simon also played with the Nervous Kind, another Birmingham band during the 1980s - I saw them many times myself during that period and created the slideshow backdrop for the gig at the Triangle Arts centre that used to be attached to Aston University. A good example of garage Band revival with a gentle 80s indie tinge, with plenty of their own songs and a 60s cover encore repertoire. They signed to 10 records, a Virgin Subsidiary, and had a good amount of pre publicity, with several youth music magazines opting for the photo of Simon with his then fashionable long blonde dreadlocks front and centre of the picture. Unfortunately the excellent single 5 to Monday was never released. Soundboard tapes exist of their show at CBGB's New York. The end of the 80s were spent developing his skills as a dance music producer, responsible for final studio mixes of quite a number of 12" dance singles. He moved to San Francisco at some point in the 1990s, where he worked as a graphic designer. I lost touch after that. (Mark Harrington)