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The Snake Corps

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THE SNAKE CORPS came together in 1984 following the break-up of Sad Lovers And Giants (SL&G) the previous year.
Aiming for a harder-edged sound, core members TRISTAN GAREL-FUNK and NIGEL POLLARD advertised in the Melody Maker for the necessary musicians.
After many auditions they settled on MARC LEWIS and LIAM McGUINNESS on vocals and bass respectively.
This original incarnation set about establishing its own sound - recording demos of songs later to appear on the band’s albums as well as a video of Look East for Eden at Kingston Poly where MARC was a student.
After some initial success building a local following and reconnecting with many of the fans of SL&G, NIGEL left the band and was replaced by JON GREVILLE from the extreme hardcore three-piece Rudimentary Peni.
This line up recorded the first album: "Flesh on Flesh", released on Midnight Music in 1984.
Tours in Europe helped to build and consolidate the band's following, but despite being championed by the legendary DJ John Peel in the UK the story was largely one of press and radio indifference. Feeling a need to broaden the scope of THE SNAKE CORPS sound the band decided to add keyboards.
This resulted in the return of SL&G founder member David Wood. With the addition of Jim Blanchard from label-mates the S-Haters now on bass guitar, this line-up recorded the band's second album Smother Earth. More gigs followed but UK recognition continued to elude the Snake Corps despite growing interest from around the world; the bulk of the band's record sales going overseas. Ian Gibson (recently having left the Mk2 version of SL&G) replaced Dave Woods on keyboards.
Free from their contract with Midnight Music but with their commitment to release the next album as a one-off, this line-up recorded (at their own expense) "The 3rd Cup" at Midnight-owned Berry Street Studios. With Brad Grisdale at the controls, a creative meeting of minds between the band and their engineer resulted in was what many consider to be the Snake Corps finest album. But behind the scenes all was not well,Midnight Music went into receivership and was bought up by Cherry Red. The band suddenly found that all their music: back catalogue, stock and copyright had now changed hands.
The Snake Corps split.
It seemed that the best-of compilation "Spice" released by Cherry Red would be the band's swan-song.
Thankfully, the finished master tapes of "The 3rd Cup" were already in the band's possession when Midnight Music went under but it was to be couple of years before the album was finally released on CD.
In 2010 Marc & Liam reformed the band, later joined by Jim and played with Sad lovers & Giants in Barcelona, the gig was a huge success more gigs in Berlin, Madrid and Valencia followed. The band also played with the Chameleons at the 02 academy in Islington 2012 and again put on a wonderful performance, helped by their acclaimed new session drummer Dave Vigay. The band played to a sell out audience in Tarragona, Spain, in November 2015 playing a new song ‘A Far Cry’ from a forthcoming release, the EP ‘The Ocean Calls', which was released in September 2016, - the band played in Berlin and Madrid in October and November 2016. In Italy, Spain and the UK in 2017 , again with the Chameleons Vox - In 2018 at the Gotham Music Fest in Germany in April , Barcelona in Sept and Turin in Nov more gigs and a new releases are due in 2019Less 
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Albums

The Snake Corps - Flesh On Flesh album artFlesh On Flesh Midnight Music1985
The Snake Corps - Smother Earth album artSmother Earth Midnight Music1990
The Snake Corps - 3rd Cup album art3rd Cup Ophidian1991

Singles & EPs

The Snake Corps - Science Kills album artScience Kills ‎(12", Single)Midnight MusicDONG 131985
The Snake Corps - Testament album artTestament Midnight Music1986
The Snake Corps - Victory Parade album artVictory Parade ‎(12")Midnight MusicDONG 191986
The Snake Corps - Calling You album artCalling You Midnight Music1989
The Snake Corps - Colder Than The Kiss album artColder Than The Kiss Midnight Music1990
The Snake Corps - Some Other Time album artSome Other Time Midnight Music1991
The Snake Corps - The Ocean Calls album artThe Ocean Calls ‎(4xFile, MP3, EP, 320)The Snake Corporationnone2016
The Snake Corps - She'll Rise album artShe'll Rise ‎(File, MP3, Single, 320)The Snake Corporationnone2019

Compilations

The Snake Corps - More Than The Ocean album artMore Than The Ocean Midnight Music1990
The Snake Corps - Spice - 1984-1993 The Very Best Of... album artSpice - 1984-1993 The Very Best Of... Anagram Records1995

Videos (69) Edit

The Snake Corps - Calling You
4:28
The Snake Corps - We're All Fine
4:05
snake corps - flesh on flesh
1:56
The Snake Corps ‎-- This Is Seagull
4:25
THE SNAKE CORPS A1 Victory Parade
4:10
The Snake Corps ~ Testament
4:40
The snake corps-Science kills.wmv
4:59
Snake Corps - Sky in Your Eyes
5:07
The Snake Corps 'Possession' 1990
4:12
The Snake Corps - The Ocean Calls
4:01
Snake Corps - This is Seagull
3:39
The Snake Corps - Take Off
3:38
THE SNAKE CORPS A1 Victory Parade
4:10
Snake Corps - science kills
4:59
The snake corps - this is a seagull (1989)
4:00
SNAKE CORPS- victory parade
4:09
Snake Corps - Testament (1986)
6:33
The Snake Corps - Party's Over
4:16
The Snake Corps - Careful
4:19
The Snake Corps - More Than The Ocean
4:31
THE SNAKE CORPS B4 House Of Man
4:18
The Snake Corps, Testament, Madrid
4:22
The Snake Corps - This is a Seagull
4:03
The Snake Corps - Colder Than The Kiss - Midnight Music 1990.wmv
4:49
The Snake corps Science kills
5:11
Snake Corps - This Is A Seagull (Audio)
3:59
The Snake Corps - Look East for Eden (Flesh on Flesh) 1985
4:09
The Snake Corps - Fireflies
4:16
The Snake Corps - Colder Than The Kiss (Distended)
8:17
The Snake Corps - Flesh On Flesh
1:55
Colder than the Kiss, Snake Corps, Valencia
3:56
The Snake Corps - Colder than the kiss (Live @ Rock Kitchen, Madrid 18/11/2011)
4:17
The Snake Corps - Flesh On Flesh (1985) FULL ALBUM + B-sides
54:20
4-Colder-than-the-kiss.wmv
4:36
Snake Corps - Come The Glorious Day (Audio)
3:44
The Snake Corps - Hey Joe
5:10
11-This-is-seagull.wmv
5:56
12-Im-not-afraid.wmv
4:18
13-Radar-love.wmv 

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