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‘The three core members of Finish The Story; Nicola Mumford (Vocals), Peter Bright (Bass/Guitar) and Garry Smout (Keyboards) hailed from Evesham and Bromsgrove.
The band were born out of tragedy after the death of Stuart Dyke in a car accident. At the time he was Nicola’s boyfriend and bass player with Evesham group The Dancing Did. (BBC)‘
Article available on BBC Online’s archived websites
Playing at Life (live)
Recorded 21 February 1983 at Exeter College of Art and Design.
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Every Angry Word (demo) below, recorded in Sound Conception Studios. Bristol in 1982
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Download Images & Photos (Zip files)
Malvern 1981 – Images from ‘Finish The Story’s’ first Gig with ‘The Dancing Did’ in Malvern in 1981. (7 photos size 3.87mb)
Recording Doorways – Images from ‘Finish The Story’s’ first attempt at recording 1981. (6 photos size 3.6mb)
Artwork – Includes drawing for proposed cassette cover for ‘Doorways’ by Garry 1981. Drawing by Garry2 – From his video for ‘Doorways’ a still of which was used in ‘Women In Rock’. Idea for poster by Garry. (4 images size 4mb)
Finish The Story – Photographs of FTS @ 346 Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove where they recorded and practiced – this is possibly leading upto ‘The Cure’ support gig at Hamersmith Odeon. The rest of the images were taken during rehearsals @ 346 Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove. (5 Photos size 760kb)
Moonlight Club, London– Photographs FTS1 – FTS6 are at the Moonlight Club, London. FTS: Nicola, Garry, Peter, Jez Gibson (sax). (6 photos size 1.17mb)
Reviews
- Clipping of ‘one-off’ Malvern gig in Record Mirror August 8th 1981 by MickMercer [1]
- ZigZag(magazine) clipping of ‘one-off’ Malvern gig September 1981 by Sara Jones[2]
- Review of gig in Bristol by Dave Massey in Sounds (magazine) July 2nd 1983 [3]
- Interview in ‘Women In Rock’ published by The Daily Mirror [4] 1983
- Review in ‘Melody Maker’ [5] 1983
- Flyer from ‘Era Club’ Bristol 1983 [6]
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