Both
Optimismo and No Track Mind are
both Yan Hannaghan and Geoff Clout
Yan played all the technology and guitar, Geoff did words, sang and rhythmed. Most tunes arrived by symbiosis.
Most of Obviously was produced during lockdown and reflects an almost manic need not to be downhearted.
We decided that Optimismo was too optimistic a name. Hey ho!
H.O.A. History of Armley
is a loose name for music made by Geoff Clout with a variety of people, not all of them from Armley
Friday Night Stereo
Nearly every friday night for more than 15 years Mike had (and still would have) an improvise/jam session in his music room in Hyde Park, Leeds.
People are friends, there’s never been any competency, or sobriety, test. These sessions were recorded by Geoff and we made these Cd releases. They don’t even begin to scrape the archive. Unhappily several participants are either too ill or have actually evaporated so at present sessions are only every couple of months.
I.H.F. the Indiscriminate Hoax Fund
Were Sarah Morrell, Julian Walker, Geoff Clout, and usually Harry Hamer
Ringos High
were a group from Armley
with Howard Storey at its core.
Geoff Clout, Harry Hamer, Lee Merrill, Paul Greco, Jed, and many more were also involved.