| Guy Manning | |
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Guy Manning - Live in 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 20 January 1957 |
| Genres | Progressive rock |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Cyclops Records ProgRock Records Festival Music (F2) |
| Associated acts | Manning The Tangent Parallel or 90 Degrees |
| Website | The Official Manning site |
| Notable instruments | |
| Acoustic Instruments, Keyboards, Vocals | |
Guy Manning (born 20 January 1957, Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.
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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 (joining Julie King) in art-rock band Through The Looking Glass. This band split up a year later and a more pop based offshoot, KingGlass, emerged which continued for a further year.
Manning and local keyboardist/vocalist Andy Tillison had an early unsigned band called Gold Frankincense & Disk Drive. This band's final line-up included David 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 augmented 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.
Manning has gone on to release his own albums,[1] five for the Cyclops label and three more for USA label, ProgRock Records. With a further change of record label, the 2007 release, Songs From The Bilston House and 2009 release Number Ten , were released on the Festival Music (F2) label based in the UK.[2]
Tillison has guested on several of these albums, while other special guests have included Martin Orford (IQ), Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn (Hedgehog Pie & Jack the Lad), Steve Dundon (Molly Bloom), Leon Camfield (Tinyfish), Marek Arnold (Toxic Smile & Seven Steps to the Door), Phideaux and Angela Gordon (Mostly Autumn).
The ProgRock Records album covers were created by notable graphics artist, Ed Unitsky.
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]
Manning has also provided an unreleased track for KINECTIONS, the US ProgDay festival support album.[4]
In April 2008, news appeared on the Classic Rock Society website[5] stating that Manning had recruited a new band consisting of Kevin Currie, Kris Hudson-Lee, Julie King, Danny Rhodes and Phil Wilkes. The band (minus Julie King) debuted at the Classic Rock Society's Tribute to Rob Leighton concert in June 2008. Drummer Danny Rhodes left soon after and was replaced by former colleague, David Albone in 2009.
Manning performed at the prestigious Rites Of Spring Festival in Gettysburg, PA on May 1, 2010 debuting material from their album 'Charlestown' which was released in October 2010.
In 2001/2, plans for a solo album by Andy 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.
On 11 May 2010 a statement appeared on the Guy Manning website indicating that he would no longer be partaking in future Tangent activities.
In all, Manning played on five studio and one live album by The Tangent. See main article on The Tangent.
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