Orchestre Murphy

Rob Storey is the one constant in 30-plus years of Murphy variations -Federation Murphy, Orchestre Murphy, The Murphy Love Experience, Murphy Patrol, Murphy Working Stiffs, Laboratoires Murphy, etc.. He had made a start as the Good For Nothings in about '77/78 and played sort of punk rock music with a line-up of Catherine O'Sullivan, Bing Selfish, Rodrigo Lodwick and Seamus Luttman-Johnson. They soon got tired of the straitjacket of the punk sound and started trying other things, 'fake jazz', more theatrical elements, improvisation and performance deconstruction –which resulted in some extremely antagonistic audience reactions. Chris Gray, Jim Whelton, Ted Barrow (who had all been associated with The Homosexuals), Lepke Buchwalter, David Doyle and Joe Torres (who were Milk from Cheltenham), Janey Haggar (Nancy Sesay), and Mick Hobbs (The Work), amongst others, became part of the pool of people who would do gigs, tours or recording sessions. It was a loose arrangement of players by the time they made '12 Minutes at the Hot Club Murphy'. [SOURCE: HYPED TO DEATH]