Penrose Web, The
It's... (blue)
Allan Crockford and Ian Button probably first nodded a cursory "Alright?" to each other in 1986 when their respective bands - The Prisoners and Thrashing Doves - were on the same bill supporting a late-era Ramones at Hammersmith Palais. Their histories from that point are fairly well known. Crockford moved on after The Prison[1]ers into the James Taylor Quartet, The Solar Flares and beyond, while Button followed up Thrashing Doves with 10+ years as guitarist for Death In Vegas before moving more into production, and his own projects. The two current bands they lead - The Galileo 7 and Papernut Cambridge - have been operating out of Kent for the last decade or morepaths have crossed...gigs have been done together.records have been exchanged. In summer 2023, a casual conversation at a Rochester covers night run by Kevin Younger of The High Span led to Button and Crockford deciding to start a new project together. They began swapping backing tracks, song skeletons, lyrics and ideas, and very quickly had enough raw material for an album, and a project name - The Penrose Web. As you'd expect, they both bring items from their own musical wardrobes to this: their own takes on sunshine pop, psych, garage, (northern) soul and indie combine in a set of dual-vocal led songs with layered harmonies and crisp punchy production. Crockford's Medway credentials and Button's SE London via Kent Coast retro pop chops merge geo-musically somewhere halfway along the M20. Their first EP It's.The Penrose Web is a 7-inch 4-song mix of sinister horror garage (""Hexapod Scene"", ""I Dreamt I Woke Up Dead""), phased mod energy (""Leap of Faith"") and no-frills power-pop (""Geraldine"") - and it's one of the first records pressed on a new bioplastic compound called Evovinyl."