Splintered - Blaspheme
Blasphere
Splintered were an experimental noise-rock band founded by Richard Johnson (Grim Humour 'zine, Fourth Dimension Records, Lumberton Trading Company, Adverse Effect) when the band he was previously in, Playground, disbanded in 1989/1990. Splintered lasted until 1998 and also released many side-project records, often on Steve Pittis' Dirter Promotions imprint or Richard Johnson's Fourth Dimension label but likewise turning up on labels such as Meeuw Muzak and Ralf Wehowsky's Selektion ... (read more at Discogs)
- Members
Colin Bradley - Guitar treatments
Paul Dudeney - Drums, Vocals, Percussion
Richard Johnson - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
James Machin - Lead guitar, Percussion
Steve Pittis - Wasp, Keyboards, Sampling, Percussion
Paul Wright - Bass
David Dudeney - Percussion
Links to Peel
Festive Fifty Entries
- None
Sessions
Two sessions. No known commercial release.
1. Recorded: 1992-02-16. First broadcast: 27 March 1992. Repeated: 29 May 1992
- Godsend / Judas Cradle / Breakdown Part Three / Kill The Body So The Head Will Die
2. Recorded: 1994-12-04. Broadcast: 20 January 1995.
- Hilt / Black Dwarf / Mantle / Silence
Other Shows Played
(The list below is compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive. Please add more information if known.)
- 1990
- 23 July 1990: 'Last Laugh (Compilation LP-Tearing Down The Barricades Volume 1])' (Fourth Dimension)
- 01 August 1990: 'Last Laugh (Compilation LP-Tearing Down The Barricades Volume 1])' (Fourth Dimension)
- 11 August 1990 (BFBS) (Peel 154 (BFBS)): 'Last Laugh (Compilation LP-Tearing Down The Barricades Volume 1)' (Fourth Dimension)
- 1991
- 17 February 1991: Blaspheme (7" b/w Big Meat) 4th Dimension
- 1992
- 12 January 1992: Candleskin (7") Dying Earth
- 19 January 1992: Link (7") Dying Earth
- 02 February 1992: Candleskin (single Link / Candleskin / Head Wound) Dying Earth
- 18 April 1992: Silence (album - Parapraxis) Intellectual Convulsion
- 1993
- 16 July 1993: Judas Cradle (7" single) Dirter Promotions
- 04 December 1993: The Judas Cradle (album - The Judas Cradle) Dirter Promotions DPROMCD 17
- 17 December 1993: 'Undertow (CD-The Judas Cradle)' (Dirter Promotions)
- 1994
- 21 January 1994: Undertow (CD - The Judas Cradle) Dirter Promotions
- 24 September 1994: Hilt (7”) Pitsbull
- 1996
- 26 January 1996: '?' (LP - Noumena) Dirter Promotions
- 12 May 1996: Intercept, But Don't Shoot ... (7" - Smokescreen) Suggestion SUG 009 (back announced only)
- 1997
- 08 May 1997: Martian Sunset (shared 7" with A.S.P. - Split) Fourth Dimension
- Other
- Best Of Peel Vol 10: Last Love (Compilation LP-Grim Humour Presents Tearing Down The Barricades Vol. 1) Fourth Dimension
- Best Of Peel Vol 41: Candleskin (7")' (Dying Earth) (12 January 1991)
- Best Of Peel Vol 45: Silence (LP-Parapraxis) Intellectual Convulsion) (18 April 1992)
- Peel Mid 1992: Judas Cradle (session) (29 May 1992)
- Peel Early 1995: Black Dwarf (session) (20 January 1995)
