Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day 1980

 

Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford (born 2 October 1950) is an English guitarist, bassist,

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songwriter, and singer who co-founded the rock band Genesis in 1967. Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks are the group's two continuous members.
                                                      

Initially serving as Genesis's bass guitarist and backing vocalist, Rutherford also performed

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most of the band's rhythm guitar parts—frequently on twelve-string guitar—in collaboration with successive Genesis lead guitarists Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Following Hackett's departure from Genesis in 1977, Rutherford assumed the additional role of lead guitarist on the band's studio albums (beginning with ...And Then There Were Three... in 1978).
                                         

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Rutherford was one of the main Genesis songwriters throughout their career and wrote the lyrics for

some of the band's biggest international hits, such as "Follow You Follow Me", "Turn It On Again", "Land of Confusion" and "Throwing It All Away". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
                                                 

In addition to his work with Genesis, Rutherford released two solo albums in the early 1980s. In 1985,

he formed Mike + the Mechanics, which became a chart-topping act and significant live draw in its own right. The group earned Rutherford an Ivor Novello Award for the 1988 single "The Living Years", as well as two Grammys.
                                      

Smallcreep's Day is the first studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Mike Rutherford, released in February 1980 on Charisma Records. It was recorded in 1979 during a period of inactivity

from his rock band Genesis, during which Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks recorded their first solo albums. The 24-minute title track is based on the 1965 novel Smallcreep's Day by Peter Currell Brown which tells the story of Mr. Smallcreep and the journey of self-discovery he takes through the assembly line of the factory he has worked in for forty years.
                                  

Smallcreep's Day opens with the 24-minute title track that has seven distinct sections. It is based on the

1965 novel Smallcreep's Day, the only book written by Peter Currell Brown. A satire on modern industrial life, the story follows Pinquean Smallcreep who has worked in the same factory for forty years and embarks on a journey of self-discovery as he follows its assembly line to find out what the factory produces.
                                         

Brown had in fact worked in a factory for forty years himself. Rutherford had read the book roughly three years prior to starting work on the album, noting it had similarities to the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by Mervyn Peake. Though he considered it "hardly a great piece of literature", he was more impressed with its spirit and the atmosphere it presented as a reader.
He also chose the book as its story and setting were something he could work and develop from and adapted it to have a happy ending.
                                                 

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He later noted a strong contrast in themes between the factory and machine-oriented imagery on his

album and the more romantic and fantasy-inspired Genesis songs typical of the time. Rutherford had attempted to pass lines from the book as lyrics, but abandoned the idea as they failed to work effectively. One other track recorded during the sessions for the album, "Compression", was released as the B-side to the single release of "Working in Line".

Mike Rutherford – Smallcreep's Day
Label:Virgin – CASCD1149
Series:    Compact Price
Format:    CD, Album 1989
Country: Europe
Released: 1980
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Prog Rock, Pop Rock

TRACKS

01. Between The Tick & The Tock    3:59
02. Working In Line    3:08
03. After Hours    1:45
04. Cats And Rats (In This Neighbourhood)    4:52
05. Smallcreep Alone    1:25
06. Out Into The Daylight    3:53
07. At The End Of The Day    5:39
08. Moonshine    6:26
09. ime And Time Again    4:54
10. Romani    5:27
11. Every Road    4:15
12. Overnight Job    5:45

MUSICIANS

MIKE RUTHERFORD – guitars, bass guitar

ANTHONY PHILLIPS – keyboards
Anthony Edwin Phillips (born 23 December 1951) is an English musician, songwriter, producer and singer who gained prominence as the original lead guitarist of the rock band Genesis, from 1967 to 1970. He left in July 1970 and learned to play more instruments, before he began a solo career. His departure from Genesis on the eve of the group's breakthrough to mainstream popularity has led him to be popularly dubbed "the Pete Best of progressive rock" (though unlike Best, Phillips left his band voluntarily).
 

NOEL McCALLA – vocals
Noel McCalla (born 4 November 1956, in London, England)[1] is a British rock singer. He was the lead vocalist for the rock group Manfred Mann's Earth Band from 1991 until 2009. From 1977, he worked as a backing vocalist for Sniff 'n' the Tears.
 

SIMON PHILLIPS – drums
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is a US-based English jazz, pop and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014. Phillips worked as a session drummer for Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Bernie Marsden, Jon Lord, Nik Kershaw, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He was the drummer for The Who during the band's American reunion tour in 1989. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro.

MORRIS PERT – percussion
Morris David Brough Pert (8 September 1947 – 27 April 2010) was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock music. His compositions include three symphonies, piano music, chamber and solo instrumental music, choral music and "sonic landscapes" for electronic media; a late major work is "Ankh" for Carnyx and electronics written for eminent trombonist John Kenny. As a session musician he played with many musicians, including Paul McCartney, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Williams, Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield, Sally Oldfield, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Jon Anderson, Elvis Costello, Bryan Ferry and Talk Talk. Among his awards are five gold albums, an American ASCAP award and a NARAS Grammy Award nomination.

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