Fantaccini Playground

The Multiple Jesu (ASR 005, 1980, C30)
Even Between Two People in Love/Jesus #1/I’m Hungry/The Four Chambered Heart/To Shannon Smith/All the Children are Screaming/Jesus #2/Karl Face/India Shadow and Rain/The Childhood Disco

Steven Parker/Peter Becker/Phil Clark/Martyn Bates Martyn says in the John Balance interview that: ”F. Playground was originally intended to be a vehicle for Steve Parker’s poetry, but it ended up as a wide-open excursion – lots of space, with what little poetry there is muted and distorted through effects.”

Martyn Bates writes (Nov ’97): ”Much, much later I co-opted the name of this venture by writing the song that appears on Imagination Feels Like Posion Cd; there’s an ironic resonance that has (co-incidentally) somehow a correlation with what happened to this free-spirited project idea – the lyrics oddly echo my feelings about what happened, what killed this nice little idea … .”