Quarterdeck

• Lorraine Walls - vocals
• Mick McCarney - guitar
• Paul Miller - keyboards
• Shaun McCarron - sax
• Billy Robinson - bass
• Laurence Doherty - drums

Bio:

Jazz-funk in jumpsuits. Original vocalist Dave Harvey appears on the first single only. Lorraine Walls joined thereafter. Mick McCarney (not the Redeemer guitarist) played guitar with the band up to 1985(?).

"Jazz-funk in jumpsuits" is perhaps a little reductionist but anything that reminds me of Shakatak and the mercifully brief period when boiler suits were considered fashionable is fighting an uphill struggle. Quarterdeck's records are better and more varied than this suggests and they were certainly a pioneering outfit in Irish terms. They played the Cork Jazz Festival and the Trinity Ball in 1984.

"Loosely our roots are in free-form jazz, improvization stuff. We're not a jazz funk band like Level 42 or Shakatak, but we use the better elements of that genre."--Billy Robinson, 1984.

Collects the three Bus Records singles (A and B sides) plus one new track "Jealous Child"

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