Blue Poland

Blue Poland were formed in 1979, members were Neil Morgan, Chris Larsen and Nigel Robinson. At the time they had no drummer so had to get drummers in for demos and gigs. They found a drummer a couple of years later called Steve Thomas. They made three demo tapes and one John Peel session and appeared on A BBC2 programme called 'Something Else' alongside a London band called Doctor Fantasies Devils and a poet called Pete Sinclair (now a comedy writer for Graham Norton, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and lots of other programmes. On the programme as guests were George Melly and Nick Lowe (who blue poland interviewed. (BP had another member by them who sang backing vocals, Melanie Deeprose.

Demo tapes one:

Last of the Zero Hours / Real Shadow / Past Age / Let me Out of Here


 * Drummer for this session was Tony Elson who went on to have sucess with The Real People

Demo tapes two: Never Pretend / Endless Silence / Ordinary Level


 * Drummer for this session was Charlie Plant

Demo Tape three:

I'm Always Falling Down

Household Gods

Puppet Nation


 * By this time Steve Thomas had joined the band (incidently he too was a member of an early version of The Real People, called Jo Jo and The Real People.

All demos have never been released

John Peel Session: Time And Motion / Find Out / Puppet Nation / Household Gods

The John Peel Session was broadcast twice and more recently three of the tracks were broadcast on Marc Riley 6 Music.

The live recordngs for Something Else exist as one of the members rescued them from the bin in the BBC.