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A Witness

A Witness were an alternative rock band formed in 1982 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, by Rick Aitken, Vince Hunt and a drum machine, in 1986 replaced by Alan Brown (ex Big Flame). Keith Curtis and Noel Kilbride joined the group in 1983. Initially signing to the Ron Johnson label, debut EP Loudhailer Songs put them at the forefront of a wave of Beefheart-influenced bands that emerged in the mid-1980's. They gained further attention due to the inclusion of the track "Sharpened Sticks" on the NME's C86 cassette in the following year.

Jackdaw With Crowbar

In 1985 Jackdaw with Crowbar pioneered a technique of projecting several layers of 8mm film onto live musicians.
The set varied from post punk to dub to eastern jazz with influences like Captain Beefheart, Lee Perry, The Residents
and Wire. The films would sometimes lead the music or visa versa often mocking the politics of the day and distorting
reality whilst the music always ahead of the times treading unexplored territories with homemade instruments and
re purposed analogue technology. They toured this combination from Liepzig to Florence to Aushwitz to Amsterdam

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