Apartmment Vs The Escape
Sound Clash Vol Two
Limited edition of 150 copies. It takes something special to change someone's life and plot a course for it. It was a new age for an 18 year old Alan Griffiths when he experienced the Television and Blondie gig at Bristol's then Colston Hall in 1978. He even gave his first 'serious' band an American style name - Apartment. It would link into the motives behind this and his second group, also based in Bristol. This was to be The Escape. That escape through his music was away from suburban mundanity and that of his day job. Bristol Archive Records have decided to celebrate his musical life, seven years on from his death in 2017. This is in the form of a Sound Clash between the two bands which shows an artistic journey starting in the era of punk, through new Wave and into the early 80's post-punk period.