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MFH
1979-85
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MFH were formed by Andrew Cox (Maths) and David Elliott (Geography)
at Sussex University in November 1979. The former had a home-made
synthesizer, the latter a large record collection, and between them a
guitar, some circuit boards and a few effects units. Neither could
really play, but in the just-do-it spirit of punk they pooled their
influences and made some noise-bordering-on-music like countless other
‘bedroom bands’. This was the ‘era’ of new wave experimentalism, Cabaret
Voltaire, TG & Industrial, guitars & drums giving way to synths
& drum-machines, abrasive short instrumentals, 4-track
portastudios, and the advent of cassette labels. It was a great time to
be in music when the term ‘music’ was up for grabs.


First Move was recorded in bedrooms and
under a campus laboratory in the middle of the night using the most
basic material, including short-wave radio, calculator and electric
razor. It became the first cassette album to be released on their own
York House Recordings (YHR), the name of their campus accommodation, in
January 1980. Within 30 Miles followed in the
early summer, recorded at Sussex University’s tiny radio station where
David presented a radio show to an occasional audience. The tracks were a
lot shorter, simpler and cleaner. Masks – an
abrasive mix of very short and very long tracks – followed in the
autumn, by which time Andrew had dropped out of college and both were
living off-campus in Brighton.


1981 saw Andrew return ‘home’ to Cornwall where he would continue
his own music. He’d already released a solo, Arioch (recorded on two
purpose-built oscillators – which, coincidentally, came out at the same
time as Pete Shelley’s very similar Sky Yen) and Methods. Their next
recording session together was in April 1981 in a Cornish bungalow
where, hermit-like and with a week’s worth of beans & beer, plus
David’s new Korg MS10 (but alas no air-fresheners) they produced Ground Zero, an almost polished work.


There followed a long gap in which David concentrated on his
Neumusik fanzine and released a wide range of other artists on YHR while
supposedly studying at Strasbourg University, while Andrew continued
his ‘solo career’, releasing Hydra and Songs from the Earth (both 1981). It wasn’t until April 1982 that they reunited back in
Brighton for a week, together with a rented ARP Odyssey and a 4-track
portastudio (everything previous to this had been recorded straight to
stereo cassette), resulting in two-thirds of what was to become Head (the other third stemming from a separate session in the summer). It appeared in February 1983 along with Andrew’s Songs from the Earth, in what turned out to be the final batch of YHR releases.


Later that year, tracks appeared on several compilations, including Dave Henderson’s infamous The Elephant Table Album,
and they finally got around to playing live, kicking off in the very
un-rock-&-roll surroundings of New Park Community Centre in
Chichester. 1984-85 saw them increasingly estranged with very little
recorded output. David, meanwhile, was writing for Sounds and Andrew was
making plans to move to nearer London. This prompted a name change to
Pump and a couple of ‘proper’ albums, The Decoration of the Duma Continues (Final Image 1987; re-released on Forced Nostalgia 2011) and the 1993-recorded, incredibly delayed Sombrero Fallout (Plague Recordings 2010).