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Robert Lloyd some Nightingales and other stuff 1979 - 2021
"Rocking With Rita (Head To Toe)" 1986 (with We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It and Ted Chippington; credited as The Vindaloo Summer Special)

The Crunch 1984 (Vindaloo) (#27)

Part of the Anchor 1990

Inside out 1981

Dumb and Drummer - 2014

Thick and Thin 2014

My Brilliant Career - 1982

Music video featuring BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed made for upcoming feature documentary King Rocker released in 2021, exploring the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor, and his bands The Prefects and The Nightingales. More info about King Rocker

Robert Lloyd - vocals
Fliss Kitson - drums
Andreas Schmid - bass
James Smith - guitar

"1979–86

Their debut single, "Idiot Strength" was released in 1981 on Rough Trade,[1] following which Duffy was replaced by Steve Hawkins on bass and Andy Lloyd and Nick Beales joined on guitars.

The band signed to Cherry Red Records and released three more singles before debut album Pigs on Purpose (Produced by Richard Strange) was issued in late 1982.[5] John Nester replaced Hawkins on bass before next release, the "Urban Ospreys" single.

Peter Byrchmore replaced Beales (who went on to form Pig Bros) in time for second album, Hysterics (1983), Nester then departed to be replaced by Howard Jenner. The new line-up issued two singles in 1985. Further changes then ensued with Andy Lloyd and Paul Apperley leaving, to be replaced by Maria Smith and Ron Collins. The group continued to release singles, record Peel Sessions and tour northern Europe, as headliners and supporting acts as diverse as Bo Diddley and Nico, but after the third album, In The Good Old Country Way, the band split up in 1986.[1]
Post-Nightingales

After the split, Robert Lloyd formed a new band, Robert Lloyd & The New Four Seasons, who after a few releases on In Tape Records were signed by Virgin Records.[5] Lloyd recorded one solo album for Virgin, "Me and My Mouth".

Maria and Peter formed The Capitols, later known as The Rotten Swines (Maria was also a member of Rumblefish),[6] Ron Collins joined The Noseflutes, while Andy Lloyd formed Little Red Schoolhouse.

Lloyd is currently active in the reformed Nightingales. Peter Byrchmore plays guitar for The Membranes and Goldblade. Nick Beales is in Church of Elvis and Andy Lloyd is in Del Mar Rey.

Paul Apperley is now a firefighter. John Nester runs a successful 'Glastonbury-style' gift shop in Bridport, Dorset. Howard Jenner was last heard of working for Help The Aged. Eamonn Duffy, Maria Harvey (formerly Smith) and Ron Collins still live and work in Birmingham. Steve Hawkins' whereabouts are unknown.
The Nightingales re-form

The band re-grouped in 2004 featuring mainstay/band leader Lloyd, original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley, ex-Nightingales Byrchmore and Duffy, plus former PWEI drummer Robert "Fuzz" Townshend. This line-up released four 7-inch singles in 2004/5 before Townshend was replaced by Aaron Moore of Volcano The Bear.

Live appearances include radio sessions for Marc Riley's Rocket Science on BBC 6 Music, John Kennedy's XFM show, Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic on WFMU (USA) and Another Nice Mess (NL) in addition to gigs around England.

The band also played American music festival South By Southwest in March 2005, alongside dates in Chicago and New York City. The band's first American dates ever. Since then they have also played at the Klangbad festival in Germany, organised by Jochen Irmler of Faust, and undertaken a second US tour in March 2007.

After several line up changes since reforming, the group line-up settled, for a while, as Robert Lloyd (vocals), Alan Apperley (guitar), ex-Pram drummer Daren Garratt, "teenage guitar sensation" Matt Wood, and Stephen 'The Night' Lowe (bass). For a brief July–August 2007 UK and European tour (including a return to the Klangbad Festival on 4 August), Nick Blakey of the Boston, Massachusetts band The in Out substituted for Lowe on bass.

The Nightingales released their first studio album for 20 years in early October 2006; Out of True on independent Birmingham label Iron Man Records. A new mini album, What's Not To Love? was released by Caroline True Records on 30 April 2007.

In 2007 Lowe left the band and after being replaced briefly by Nick Blakey (who appears on the Live in Paris CD) was replaced by John Roberts.

After dates in New York and Boston in March 2008, the group travelled to Faust Studio, Scheer, Germany to record a new album – Insult to Injury – for Jochen Irmler's Klangbad label. During recording bassist John Roberts left the group. The band played dates in Germany, Switzerland and in Amsterdam, with Christy Edwards of Christy and Emily on bass. Matt Wood left following these dates.

For the remainder of 2008 in to 2009 Edwards moved to guitar and Faust Studio engineer Andreas Schmid joined the band on bass. This line up was augmented on various dates in USA and Germany by U.S avant-garde composer Katherine Young on bassoon .......................
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