Talk:The Monochrome Set

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This article makes no sense. Needs sources and clarification. Content seems to be stolen from some other website. MaxVeers 07:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Article incomplete
I have an album called "Jack" with this band, from 1991. That album is missing in discography, for example. Here is some more info. This is how it looks Kricke 00:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Factual Inaccuracies
Bid here...what a palaver. No idea if I'm meant to even mention this, no idea what the etiquette is.

1. Band was formed in 1978, not 1976 2. "Love Zombies" was co-produced by Alvin Clarke...but the name listed has an erroneous link to an "Alvan Clarke" who died in 1887. 3. "He's Frank" was written in 1977, and I met Frank Tovey in 1979. Thus, the song wasn't written about him. Nice bloke, but I wouldn't have written a song about him. Where the hell did that come from?

No mention of the many cover versions of the band's songs, most recently the cover of He's Frank by Norman Cook and Iggy Pop.

Few other minor inaccuracies. Well, whatever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captainbid (talk • contribs) 09:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Bid. Your etiquette is always dead-on. Cloonmore (talk) 00:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: the year of the formation of the band, would Bid care to comment on the new Monochrome Set record that has emerged see e.g. http://www.insound.com/search/query/The+Monochrome+Set+White+Noise%3A+Early+Recordings+1975-1977/ 24.69.71.254 (talk) 00:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Attempt at Timeline
I have done my best at a Timeline. A group with this many changes in personnel over so many years deserves one. I have tried to use information within the existing article, plus looked up where possible who is playing on what album, and also looked in places like the Rough Guide to Rock, but there are gaps, so if someone more knowledgeable would correct them that would be great. At least this is a start to build on! --Tris2000 (talk) 23:24, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Please note that I need to add Phillip Morris, Dorothy Max Prior James Foster and Morris Windsor into the timeline, any help appreciated. Also, Discogs has spelling of "Trevor Reidy" instead of "Trevor Ready" so not sure which is correct. I am also unclear when Helena Johansson stopped playing strings with the band, and whether she played the violin or the viola (in an interview with Inditracks, Bid refers to it as a viola). The same article spells Brummell's surname with one "L", as in Brummel - this is also to be verified. Finally, it should be noted that Mike Slocombe was known as "Mike Slocombe" (and had the nickname "Sticks") during his first shortlived stint with the band, and now goes by the name of "Mike Urban". I have therefore called him Mike "Urban" Slocombe, even though that is factually not what he calls himself to my knowledge, for the sake of simplicity. --Tris2000 (talk) 23:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)