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Other Projects Of Saint Etienne

The Lost Chapel Picnic (Circa Early Eighties)

At the height of DIY in the early eighties, Bob and Pete hired a portastudio for a week, with a Korg MS 10 they'd saved up for, and created an unlistenable noise under the name The Lost Chapel Picnic (gawdelpus).

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Reardon (1983-84)

Around 83/84, Bob and Pete created their semi-famous 'party tapes', they chose the nom de guerre Reardon. The thinking here was that nobody from the UK would use the name because of Ray Reardon the aged snooker player, therefore the name would sound like an authentic NY electro artiste. Our assumption is that We Survived came out of this session.

We Survived

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Forever Drone (1986)

Bob is in a band with Andrew Midgley (Cola Boy) called Forever Drone named after a Josef K song (rumour).

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The Next Projected Sound (1988-89)

Pete, Bob and Andrew Midgley formed this side project and were active in the late eighties. They were The Next Projected Sound for their "pisspoor 1988 attempt at acid house", mainly memorable for Richard Norris coming to the studio and lending them his 303. Tracks were recorded across two sessions but never released.

The Next Projected Sound

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Cola Boy (1991)

Cola Boy was a duo, consisting of Janey Lee Grace (A friend of Sarah Cracknell) and Andrew Midgley (A friend of Bob Stanley). Andrew had worked with Bob and Pete on studio material in their pre-St Etienne days in the late 1980s. Janey had been a backing singer for numerous pop acts, including Wham and Pasty Kensit’s Eighth Wonder, and was a radio broadcaster on LBC. The tracks were written by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. The duo were managed by Sarah’s mother. Sarah Cracknell sang the vocals on the original white label version of 7 Ways To Love. Unfortunately Andrew passed away in 2010 after collapsing in a gym. Bob wrote a nice remembrance.

7 Ways To Love
Released June 24, 1991
First Charted July 6, 1991 (Highest Position 8)

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He Is Cola
Released September 23, 1991

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50 Year Void (1991)

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs breakbeat techno side project

Blade's Love Machine

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Hotel/Stockholm/?? (1995-96)

In 1995, Saint Etienne's Bob and Pete formed a "splinter" group with Lyanne Compton, Tracy Ann Mckoy, and Briony tentatively named Hotel to begin.
Around 20 songs were completed but never released. To quote the guys "the sound is warm and melodic, lots of three-part harmonies". Could their be a chance these see the light of day?

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Hotel/Stockholm/??

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The Seance / A Year In The Country (2008-Now)

The Seance are Pete Wiggs and James Papademetrie.

Radio Show - Our show is named after the overlooked 1964 Bryan Forbes kitchen sink thriller Séance On A Wet Afternoon and offers a haphazard and wilfully eclectic wallow in the outer marshes of oddball pop, buried soundtrack treasure, new and old electronic finery, mutant disco, experimental misshapes, modern composition, folk musics psych and trad, covetable new releases and whatever else happens to be punching our ticket at the time. Outside of the above, Pete likes well-crafted, effervescent pop and Dem is big on dank and bludgeoning noise.

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