Frazier Chorus

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Frazier Chorus was a pop group from Brighton, England. A pop group without a drummer, bassist or guitarist, they instead utilised flute, clarinet, bongos and hush-hush vocals.

Originally a four-piece, they signed to British indie label 4AD Records and released one single, "Sloppy Heart" on that label in 1987. Shortly afterwards they moved to Virgin Records, and achieved reasonable chart success with a string of melodic pop songs about Dream Kitchens, Happy Eaters and Little Chefs, all from the 1989 album "Sue".

With the emergence of the indie-dance scene in the early 1990s the band changed tack as one band member was dismissed for pretending to be lesbian and singles from their second album Ray were remixed into indie-dance floorfillers by a number of top remixers. The band were restyled from the fey indiepop band of 1989 into an act more like The Beloved and If?.

Singer Tim Freeman released a third album as Frazier Chorus ("Wide Awake") which didn't reach the charts as it was released years after Ray on a small indie label, whilst Kate Holmes descended into electronica via the bands Technique and Client. Tim Freeman was also responsible (as half of Nu-skool Breakbeat duo Sly-Fi) for "the rudest record of all time", 2005's appallingly catchy 12", "Wild Wild Child" (Marine Parade).This record was responsible for the coining of the now well-used phrase "daddy-wanker", perhaps Freeman's proudest moment.

Tim Freeman is the brother of Martin Freeman, the british actor who starred in the multi award winning series "The Office", written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Martin's Character "Tim" is based on Tim.