Gods Gift from the past.
An American label called
Messthetics has
released a compilation of the Salford post-punk band
Gods Gift. The compilation is called
Pathology and features 17 tracks from the group's back
catalogue from 1979-1984. Our personal favourites are
Jacqueline's Admission and Nico- real
thought-provoking stuff and a true antidote to modern polished
production techniques. Gods Gift were formed by two Salfordians,
Steve Murphy and Steve Edwards, who were both employed at
Prestwich Psychiatric Ward, and I think it's fair to say that
their immediate surroundings had a profound effect on their
music.
salfordmusic recently got in touch with Steve
Murphy to see if he could source us any Gods Gift photos for the
archive and his reply just about summed up Gods Gift's attitude
to self-promotion.
"Sadly, there are very few photos of the group as
we hated having them taken and when we 'finished' it was a race
to rip them up. We never felt the need to do what most groups
did/do and have loads of photos of themselves. Also as, in
various guises and at various times we were all working with
Home Office controlled inmates at Prestwich Hospital so photos
never really fitted into the scheme of things."
A truly refreshing attitude.
"A major coup for us particularly when we were so
hated in our 'prime' - It would have been nice 25 years ago
though."
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