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Medium Medium were a post-punk band from Nottingham, England, initially active between 1978 and 1983.
History
Emerging in 1978 out of Nottingham punk/rhythm & blues band The Press, Medium Medium's debut single was "Them or Me", which was released in late 1978 and was still selling well enough in 1980 to place in the UK Independent Chart. The second single, "Hungry, So Angry," was released in February 1981 on Cherry Red Records. One of the first records to introduce slap-bass - a technique borrowed from black funk music - to a generally white audience, "Hungry, So Angry" reached the #48 spot in Billboard's Disco chart and has appeared on over a dozen compilations over the years.
The band released one studio album, late-1981's The Glitterhouse, and its stark, stripped-down dub and dance rhythms and chiming, funk guitar with occasional saxophone and other sounds failed to ignite a large following.
Lead singer/sax player John Rees Lewis left at the start of 1982 to form C Cat Trance with original drummer Nigel Stone, who had left shortly before the release of "Hungry, So Angry". The remaining members, Andy Ryder (guitar/vocals), Alan Turton (bass), Graham Spink (offstage special sounds) and replacement drummer Steve Harvey, continued to tour and were later augmented by, first, Leslie Joachim Barrett (guitar/keyboards), then Julie Wood (keyboards). Forays into a fuller, more produced sound failed to garner the band a new record deal and Medium Medium split up in late 1983.
Inspired by a Cherry Red retrospective CD release in 2001 and the subsequent dance-punk revival, Medium Medium reformed in late 2004 for several live shows, including a showcase at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York. No longer a full-time venture, the band has stated plans to continue to write, record and perform.
In 2010 Medium Medium released a Split-LP with Kommissar Hjuler on the German label Der Schoene-Hjuler-Memorial-Fond containings tracks from their concert at Part Time Punks Festival USA, followed by a second Split-LP in 2011.
