British
Psychedelic band SECOND HAND dissolved after a falling out between
drummer Kieran O'Connor and keyboard player Ken Elliot, who on leaving
the band forged a lucrative career as a sessions musician and composer
in advertising jingles and incidental TV music. The pair were reunited
in a south London pub owned by JETHRO TULL's original bass player Glen
Cornick and, even though they had not reconciled their differences, they
began talking about recording an album consisting of only keyboards and
percussion. The result was "Things To Come", an album that consists of
mainly synth-laden instrumental tracks with only four vocal songs, that
was quickly snapped up by Gull Records in the UK and Janus in the USA.
Rather than continuing with the SECOND HAND name, the Elliot and
O'Connor chose to call the band SEVENTH WAVE and began putting together a
touring band to promote the release in Europe. The album received a
considerable degree of air play in the USA but the band chose not to
tour there to support it, which ultimately resulted in poor sales. Not
wishing to make the same mistake twice, they embarked upon a US tour in
support of their more song-based second album, "Psi-Fi", (which features
a guest appearance by VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR's Hugh Banton on the
track Manifestations), but unfortunately this time all the radio airplay
for the album occurred in Europe while they were touring the USA.
During the tour, O'Connor fell out with Elliot again and quit the band,
so by the time they returned to England Elliot had decided to dissolve
SEVENTH WAVE for good. Ken Elliot went back to the world of TV and
advertising jingles while Kieran O'Connor, who after working with
various Blues/Rock bands around London, sadly died of alcoholism in the
mid 80s. Line-up / Musicians Ken Elliott/Vocals,Keyboards,Synthesizers,Percussion Kieran O'Connor/Drums,Vocals Discography Psi-Fi 1975
1.Return To Foreverland 2.Roads To Rome 3.Manifestations 4.Loved By You 5.Only The Beginning 6.Aether Anthem 7.Astral Animal 8.El Tooto 9.Camera Obscura 10.Star Palace Of The Sombre Warrior
