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1999

The first release of 1999 was Andrew Morrison & Friends with 'The Pompey Posse' / 'Peter Edney Speaking'.  'The Pompey Posse' was a cutting edge drum & bass track, including samples of Andrew and his closest mates enjoying a Christmas Eve drinking session in 1998.  The "Dirty Mix" was the most requested track ever at 'Frostbitten', having been banned from every radio station because of its explicit sexual content and profuse swearing.  The edited version managed to painstakingly cut out every offensive item while retaining the original's underground garage sound.

December 20th, 1999 saw another charity release from Frostbyte with the 'Dave's Greatest *hits' compilation album, containing all of his singles and remixes, plus some previously unreleased material.  All profits from the sale of this LP went to further his feedback syndrome research in the jungle.

On the same day, Fußgängerzone brought out their eagerly anticipated "greatest hits" collection, named after their single 'Now, That’s What I Call Fußgängerzone!'.  This album was to Fußgängerzone what 'Substance' was to New Order, cataloguing many of the band's A sides and B sides on two compact discs (to hear a selection of tunes from the album, click on the CD image below).


('Now, That's What I Call Fußgängerzone!' "charted the band's phenomenal rise and was akin to a juggernaut thundering through lo-fi city, popville and technotown with a stop over at a Little Chef before carrying on to rockshire via funkopolis".)


No One Knows We're Dead (not realising the impending significance of their band name) also released a single on the 20th December featuring Fußgängerzone's celebrity minder The Ayatollah Of Rock 'n' Rollah.  'Laid' was a cover version of the famous James single.

DISASTER!
Tragedy hit at the end of this year. Perhaps the saddest day in the history of Frostbyte Records came on Christmas Day, 1999, when one of the original signings, No One Knows We're Dead were driving to Kermit's family's home for the traditional roast dinner, held every year.  The duo had been drinking extremely heavily since the early hours of the morning (in fact, non-stop since the previous night), and The Quiff (who had never learnt to drive a car) had volunteered to drive them both to lunch - mainly because Kermit had dared him to.  The roads were empty, yet The Quiff's judgement was impaired by alcohol and fatigue, and their car (estimated to be doing close to 185mph) span off the M27 motorway at Cosham, tumbling into the Portscreek.  By the time the emergency services arrived, it was too late.  The Quiff's blood alcohol level at the time of the postmortem two hours later, was found to be sixteen times the legal drink drive limit.

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