Omnia Opera
A brief history
Many years ago (1985) in a town far, far away! Kidderminster to be exact! Two dudes, Ade Scholefield and Rob Lloyd who hadn't come down yet from tripping to the sounds of Syd's Pink Floyd, Gong, Amon Duul, Hawkwind etc began experimenting with their own sounds. With very limited resources and technology they began to create a sound that took the listener to their own warped dimensions! This warped musical vehicle was known as "The Genetics of Destiny"
Meanwhile, up the road in Malvern, fellow sonic audio warpster Andy Jones (founder member of the 'OM band') had also been plying his acid rock musical toil. By a stroke of fate the two factions came together to form the basis of what was to become the “Omnia Opera”
They did a couple of bodged local gigs/indoor festivals! wherein they found the rest of the original Omnia Opera crew such as Mike Tounge and the drones Natalie Jones and Lisa Moriaty. By now this loose collection of inadequate individuals had a purpose in life!
During the latter part of the 80's they went on to support better known acts like Cardiacs, Here and Now, Huw Lloyd Langton, The Pink Fairies, Ring, and Dave Brocks Agents of Chaos and also a million hardcore punk bands of the time! Which was nice! The then drummer 'Toungy' left the band and after many exploding replacement drummers they found Neil Spragg (Sir Real) who has suffered with Omnia to the present day! (All donations welcome!!)
Omnia Opera went on to perform in mud baths at god knows what time of the morning at various free festivals, hence the "festy band" label. Meanwhile the first 'tape' releases "Beyond the Tenth" and “Celebrate for Change" (released in 1986 and 1987 respectively) were selling in their thousands! A self produced effort with no profit added got the attention of various record labels of the time, Omnia Opera ignored most of this attention until Richard Allen of Delerium Records (original home to Porcupine Tree amongst many others) persuaded them to record a couple of CD's. They became rich and lived happily ever after in large mansions....not! But they did start something they couldn’t stop, though they didn’t realise it then!!
After a brief split for twelve or so years in which time Rob [guitar] became a Morris dancer, Andy [vox/bass] became a dentist, Neil [drums] collected stamps for a bit, the drones [Nat and Lisa] hung around in subways, Ade was dehydrated for tax reasons, and finally Stuart who had absolutely nothing to do with the band whatsoever and who had never even heard of Omnia or met them ripped his own head off in anger!! We think he was a policeman.
In 2006 Omnia Opera reformed themselves from their state of hibernation and slumber minus Ade who is currently doing his own thing "Helices Fold" though still collaborating in his dehydrated way! The Drones have been cloned as Plumaris [Plum] and Caitlin [Caitlin] both don’t go near subways!! And now there’s Captain Bagley on keys and stage weirdness! The torture goes on! if you want it we've got it!! And we'll do it subject to further NHS assistance and advice!!! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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