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The Deddingtons
The Deddingtons were a short-lived indiepop band from Nottingham from 1988-1992. The Deddingtons comprised:

Matt Wright, Chris King, Chris Morgan, Andy Luczko.

The Deddingtons were a band with a manifesto: only real instruments were to be used. The Deddingtons recorded a series of demos for WEA Records in their own, home-made and thrift-store furnished studio in the loft space of Matt's parents. This made the band very creative with the way songs were recorded. Chris King was very much an indiepop Brian Wilson, or perhaps Phil Spector.

Their only concession to technology was that Matt bought a DAT recorder – something of a new technology back then. It turned out to be smart move. He tirelessly backed up all the masters, and put them somewhere safe. Something the band neglected to do with the actual masters, which are thought to have been lost.

The band didn't enjoy commercial success, with their only release being a track on the Sound of Leamington Spa 3 indiepop compilation, released on Firestation Records. In 2012 the demos that had been recorded were collated and remastered and released on Cloudberry Records. For a band that had long eschewed technology, The Deddingtons Cloudberry Records release was only been possible directly as a result of the internet: the track that had been used on the much-vaunted Leamington Spa series of albums was put onto YouTube by a Texan called Greg Shanks, who runs a blog called Tending the Pale Bloom. By responding to this upload, it transpired that The Deddingtons had turned a few heads with their The Last Day track and had left people wondering if there was any more. Roque from Cloudberry got in touch and the demos became a retrospective album, beautifully presented as a full colour digipack CD.

In celebration of the release the original members of the band reformed and have been rehearsing together for the first time in twenty years. It is also rumoured that new material is being recorded.

(from L-R) Matt Wright, Andy Luczko, Chris Morgan and Chris "Challis" King.