Feverfew

Like most teenagers living in in the suburbs in the mid &#39;80s, the desire to start a band was very strong. The nucleus of Paul Stewart, Keith Girdler (both later to form <a href="spotify:artist:0arZTC10n2y1hVMZfRV6Xn" data-name="Blueboy">Blueboy</a> and Phil Ball (The Rileys) quickly penned a bunch of bubblegum pop songs and shortly recruited Lloyd Haggar. Gigs followed and soon Girdler&#39;s vocals were perfectly matched with the jazz-inspired voice of Victoria Gerring (who later sang with The Rileys and Arabesque). The first songs were recorded at The White House, Weston-Super-Mare on 19 &amp; 20 December, 1987. Despite a chance appearance on Sky TV Star Search (lurking on YouTube somewhere), more gigs with endless interviews for local radio and fanzines, a flexi single and three demo tapes, the band failed to receive any recognition beyond the Reading ring road.

In 1991 the band went their separate ways with Ball forming The Rileys and Girdler and Stewart locking themselves away in a friend&#39;s makeshift recording studio converted from his dad&#39;s shed. The three songs they recorded on the Tascam four-track (Clearer, Temple and Alison) were sent in a padded envelope to a few independent labels and luckily, Sarah Records got in touch who went on to release Clearer in 1991 as the first of many records with the label as <a href="spotify:artist:0arZTC10n2y1hVMZfRV6Xn" data-name="Blueboy">Blueboy</a>.

Twenty years later, Phil Ball tracked down the original tapes of the recordings, had them remastered and presented them in one place on the compilation album Something of Nothing released through Cloudberry Records - Paul Stewart