227:. In 1982 he formed Shock Headed Peters with Ashley Wales, eventually adding Dave Knight, then Mark Rowlatt and Clive Glover . In 1986 he started The Underneath, a solo project, releasing an EP and an album featuring various guests. Shock Headed Peters disbanded in October 1987 before reforming in 1990, again with founder-members Blake and Knight. In 1987, weeks after Shock Headed Peters' first disbanding, Evil Twin and British Racing Green were formed. Evil Twin was Karl Blake and David Mellor, with the addition of guest vocalist Amy Rodenberg. They recorded one album,
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He began playing and self-recording in 1973/4, and his first band to have a commercially released record, Lemon
Kittens, was formed by Blake and Gary Thatcher on 5 April 1978. It went through numerous line-up changes before it again became a two-piece group consisting of Blake and Danielle Dax, with
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Blake toured extensively and recorded with Left Hand Right Hand from 1988 through until 2004. In 2005 Blake split ways with Sol
Invictus, the group he had long been associated with through studio recordings and live appearances, and denounced both the group and the
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Fear Engine II – Almost As If It Had Never
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801:Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
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702:The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record
527:Nurse With Wound · Sol Invictus · Current 93
309:(Compilation, contributing track) (CD, 1996)
295:Paper-Thin Religion: Solo Archives 1977-1981
164:. Most of his own music can be described as
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365:(1979), Detrimental History Sound Series
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567:(Tony Wakeford solo album) (CD, 1995)
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285:(Compilation) (1983), Normal Records
712:The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion
307:ON: The World and Everything in it
289:Mandibles: Thirty Pieces of Silver
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301:Mandibles: En Route to Toothless
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507:With Sol Invictus/Tony Wakeford
495:The Lamp of the Invisible Light
1046:English multi-instrumentalists
1041:English experimental musicians
476:Lunatic Dawn of the Dismantler
273:(cassette, 1977–9), Daark Inc.
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291:(cassette, 1992), Tak Tak Tak
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780:The Great Indie Discography
297:(1993?), Pro-Evil Pro-Devil
63:must be removed immediately
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513:In the Jaws of the Serpent
392:(EP, 1980), United Dairies
386:(LP, 1980), United Dairies
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778:Strong, Martin C. (2003)
736:Tales of Colour and White
651:With Left Hand Right Hand
638:All Dolled Up Like Christ
435:(LP, 1987), Produkt Korps
429:(EP, 1986), Beach Culture
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383:We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
453:(CD, 1996), Cyclops Prod
447:(CD, 1993), Cyclops Prod
441:(CD, 1992), Cyclops Prod
378:(EP, 1979), Step Forward
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646:(Live album) (CD, 2001)
640:(Live album) (CD, 1999)
634:(Live album) (CD, 1993)
599:(Live album) (CD, 2001)
515:(Live album) (LP, 1989)
470:The Imp of the Perverse
398:(LP, 1981), Illuminated
350:A Telescope in the Sky
260:As composer/songwriter
247:on the Seven Pines CD
50:Please help by adding
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376:Spoonfed and Writhing
338:Everyone Wants to Win
162:multi-instrumentalist
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283:The Prehensile Tales
279:(1977–9), Darrk Inc.
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451:Tendercide
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357:Homunculus
271:Tank Death
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202:Current 93
142:Karl Blake
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987:The Blade
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579:In Europa
572:The Blade
483:Evil Twin
457:Not alone
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949:Ian Read
839:20 April
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675:In Mufti
150:vocalist
119:May 2010
67:libelous
998:Related
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603:Thrones
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