Biography
Jim Laing’s post-Jean-Paul Sartre Experience band featuring a line-up chock-full of Flying Nun compatriots – Robert Key (Expendables, Sombretones), Noel Ward (Strangeloves), and Tony de Raad (Hallelujah Picassos) – all of whom were members of David Kilgour’s Heavy Eights.
Shiny pop with slinky melody’s and nice guitar work. They showed a lot of promise on their debut LP ‘Wait’, released on Ben Howe’s then-fledgling Arch Hill Recordings label.
Laing was one of JPSE’s 3 song-writers and was known for particularly evocative, emotional music (such as ‘The Grey Parade’), this strength is particularly evident on Lanky’s most well-known tune – “Under the Pines“:
Jim Laing passed away in April 2016.
Members
- Jim Laing (Nicotine, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, Lanky, guitar / vocals)
- Robert Key (Expendables, Sombretones, Not Really Anything, The Cakekitchen, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, Steam, Graeme Jefferies, drums)
- Noel Ward (Strangeloves, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, Pop Art Toasters, Lanky, Snakedog, bass)
- Tony de Raad (The Mad Scene, Hallelujah Picassos, Lanky, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, guitar)
Discography
- Wait (2000, Arch Hill Recordings, AHR003)