Anniversary Circle originally hail from the once thriving mining community in South Yorkshire, were producing original material before their time.
Playing their wears to anyone who would listen in living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms but mainly in Keith’s Mum and Dad’s front room to a few kids who had trespassed on to the front lawn and to those who would bang on the wall in appreciation.
Keith an “ooh 20 I am” and Martin a teenage tear away together penned their own tunes and went by the name of Edo La Tree Le Plastic Elephants did so under the toxic rain of Margaret Thatcher. During the 1980s post punk era they were defiantly the winters children and aroused the cliché “it’s grim up North”Whilst they thought of themselves as eerie, disquieting and strange being influenced by Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Gang of Four, Bauhaus and John Lennon.
Whilst managing to make a difference in their small shunted mining town (as no one else seemed to be bothering.) It did not last as they defected into the Skeleton Crew and the Malak Brood.
As Le Plastic Elephants became a forgotten in invention girlfriends came and went as did the bands and line-ups. Martin and Keith reunited in 1989 with the help of Adrian Fusiarski (Now of the 99th Floor Elevators.) to form the Fruit Eating Bears and wrote new material keeping the old stuff in a very dark place under lock and key only for Keith to leave in 1990.
After many years and many choruses of who ate all the pies Martin who chases the aces in Surrey and Keith who keeps the spit turning in Yorkshire are reunited once again as Anniversary Circle.
InFluences
Joy Division, John Lennon, Stan Ridgway, Ernest Hemingway, Souxsie And The Banshees, Keiths mums front room, my brothers 1973 Bush cassette recorder, Keiths hand painted (with emultion) white bass guitar, David Earp, The red book, The Bycicle Theif, The Bed Sitting Room, David Bowie, Flipron, Syd Barrett, Cocteau Twins, Ac Marius Ac, Johnny Cash, The Buzzsonic, 99th Floor Elevators, Fad Gaget, Numan, The Hallcross Doncaster, The girl in the bakery in Barnsley town centre (the girl with the porcelain smile),Danse Society, Christmas in the 1980s,Kurt,John Peel, The Fall, Cheap 1980s disco lights’ Keiths leather Jacket,The Ruts,The Clash Pushkin,Hawkwind (Hawklords),Robert Fripp,Half Man Half Biscuit, Ni Ju Shio.
Martin Johnson (Guitar & Vocals), Keith Young (Bass) Ed Morgan (Keyboard Wizard)
Contact mart@anniversarycircle.com
