Guy Manning
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 Guy Manning - Live at Summers End 2006
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| Background information | |
| Born | 20 January 1957 |
| Genre(s) | Progressive rock |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Label(s) | Cyclops Records ProgRock Records Festival Music (F2) |
| Associated acts | The Tangent Parallel or 90 Degrees |
| Website | Burnside - The Official Guy Manning web site |
| Members | |
| Guy Manning Kevin Currie Kris Hudson-Lee Julie King Danny Rhodes Phil Wilkes |
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| Notable instrument(s) | |
| Acoustic Instruments, Keyboards, Vocals | |
Guy Manning (born 20 January 1957 in Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom) is a British multi-instrumentalist and singer best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees and The Tangent.
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[edit] Biography
Manning was the founding member of two Leeds based bands in the 1980s, Let's Eat! and Bailey's Return. He was also recruited in 1987 to be the keyboards player with Julie King in art-rock Leeds band Through The Looking Glass. This band split up a year later and a more pop based offshoot, KingGlass, emerged and continued for a further year.
Manning and local keyboardist/vocalist Andy Tillison had an early unsigned band called Gold Frankincense & Disk Drive. The band's final line-up included Dave Albone on drums and a guest spot from Van Der Graaf Generator organ player Hugh Banton. One piece by this line-up, "A Gap in the Night", was later included on Parallel or 90 Degrees' The Corner of My Room before being reworked for the second album by The Tangent.
Tillison and Manning also recorded the album No More Travelling Chess at this time, which consisted of a set of covers of material by Peter Hammill plus a couple of original pieces. This album was first released as a mail order cassette item (before an augumented and remastered version was eventually released by Cyclops Records in 2001 - under the band name of Parallel or 90 Degrees).
Tillison and Manning then formed the new band, Parallel or 90 Degrees, with Sam Baine also on keyboards, but Manning was soon to leave.
Manning has gone on to release his own albums [1], five on the Cyclops label and three more, A Matter Of Life & Death (The Journal of Abel Mann), One Small Step... and Anser's Tree, for United States label ProgRock Records. His latest release, Songs From The Bilston House (2007), was released on the Festival Music (F2) label.[2]
Tillison has guested on several of these, while other guests have included Martin Orford (IQ), Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn (Hedgehog Pie & Jack the Lad), Steve Dundon (Molly Bloom) and Angela Gordon (Mostly Autumn). The ProgRock Records album covers were created by Ed Unitsky.
Previously, plans for a solo album by Tillison transformed into the first release by The Tangent, The Music That Died Alone (2003). This initial line-up included Manning, Sam Baine, Roine Stolt, Jonas Reingold and Zoltan Csorsz from The Flower Kings, and David Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator. Other Tangent members have included Theo Travis, Jaime Salazar, Krister Jonsson and Jakko Jakszyk.
In all, Manning has played on four studio and one live album by The Tangent. See main article on The Tangent.
Manning and Tillison also teamed up as fictional Italian band La Voce Del Vento to provide two long pieces for the Colossus Project Discs (The Spaghetti Epics #1 and #2).[3]
In April 2008, news appeared on the Classic Rock Society website [4] stating that Guy had recruited a band consisting Kevin Currie, Kris Hudson-Lee, Julie King, Danny Rhodes & Phil Wilkes.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Guy Manning / Manning
- Tall Stories For Small Children (1999)
- The Cure (2000)
- Cascade (2001)
- The Ragged Curtain (2002)
- The View From My Window (2003)
- A Matter Of Life & Death (The Journal Of Abel Mann) (2004)
- One Small Step... (2005)
- Anser's Tree (2006)
- Songs From The Bilston House (2007)
[edit] The Tangent
[edit] Studio albums
- The Music That Died Alone (2003)
- The World That We Drive Through (2004)
- A Place in the Queue (2006)
- Not as Good as the Book (2008)
[edit] Live albums
- Going Off On One (2007)
[edit] La Voce Del Vento
- The Spaghetti Epic #1 (2005)
- The Spaghetti Epic #2 (2006)
[edit] Parallel Or 90 Degrees
- No More Travelling Chess (2001)
