Amnesia EP

Today in 1993 saw the release of our first single ever!

If you're not too familiar with our history, what we loosely term our "career" in music had started a little over a year earlier with our debut album, the frankly dreadful Schizophrenia, and due to some problems with the record company and some general incompetence, we hadn't quite got around to releasing a single yet.

In summer 1993, we played our first live concert, in Worcester, just a short set with highlights from the first album, which was moderately well received. We recorded it, just in case it was ever going to be useful, but we didn't intend to do much with it.

With releases, we had faltered somewhat. We knew we wanted Dangerous to be the lead single, and so we started work on a set of four remixes, which over the course of one mammoth session led to our first attempt at a single, the Brain Cell EP. The two b-sides were going to be Merciful Rhythm and Seeing is Believing - neither of which actually made it onto the single in the end (Merciful Rhythm resurfaced six months later on our second single, and Seeing is Believing eventually turned up on our second album Nemesis in 1995).

The Brain Cell concept was shelved - we revisited it a couple of years later in 1995, which actually never happened either, but it was that which led to the development of the second album. For the first single, now called Amnesia, we took five of the six tracks from the Worcester gig. We were considering You are a Mirror as the second single, so we left that one off for now, and replaced it with a hastily thrown together b-side, Tunnel Vision. It had completely daft and meaningless lyrics, just like most of the things we released during this period, and there we had it: our first single. Thrown together in a couple of days.