Biography
Dry Green were troubled dreamers who invented a new kind of music before getting kind of distracted one afternoon and just wandering off.
The whole thing started when new romanticist R Chamberlain switched off his keyboards and picked up a guitar. Lazy guitarist T Housden ditched 2 strings and joined him on bass, while corkscrewhaired axeman Paul Heap arrived for a bit to 'help out'.
The boys next played a few gigs around Lancaster in summer 1995 featuring Matthew Senior on Drums and Jonathan 'Johnny' Walker on guitar. Around that time the band used the mouthpiece of the Lancaster Guardian 'newspaper' to list their inspiration as "the sounds of motown, and terriers".
In the summer of 1996, the band played a concert at popular community centre The Greg, attended by several hundred thousand revellers. The concert was such a spectacular success that by the end, the crowd began to spontaneously demolish the venue, with each brick pulverised into dust before being loaded into cannons and fired into the sun. A replacement venue - dubbed The Gregson - was eventually erected in its place, and stands to this day in cheap mockery of the original's unique splendour.
Weeks later the band enjoyed a high point when they performed at some festival in Morecambe wearing sunglasses. The next day though, Senior and Walker were out and drumming wunderkind Tom English was in. Thus began the ape rhythm. The new "power trio" incarnation would piece together demos at Lancaster Musicians Co-Op that autumn, and record hours of rehearsals the following winter and spring.
Summer 1997 - a season which virtually no-one at all dubbed 'the third summer of love' - would see yet more gigs to even bigger audiences across the city. But it was not to be. The band split up at the end of July, its three members flung to different corners of the world like tiny ants being shaken off the back of a great big burning alsatian.
And thats where the story ended, pretty much. Until now. Here is a retrospective of their "career" from beginnings to endings.
Personell: Tom Housden, Tom English, Jonathan Walker, Matt Senior, Paul Heap, Richard Chamberlain
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