AIDAN NOLAN

Aidan Nolan's first band was a folk duo with school friend John Mortimer called Garage Plus. Inspired by American delta blues bands he sang in the soul band Respect with co-singer Danny Kramer, Brian Thompson (keyboards) George Meek (drums), Ian Davidson (guitar) and Tony Derkinderen (bass). After Respect he joined Daisy Roots with co-singer James Willebrandt, Alan Sandow (drums), John Miller (guitar), Chris Harder (bass) and Craig Mannell (keyboards).

After Daisy Roots split and while working various non-musical jobs to pay the bills, he teamed up with Jamie McKinley to form Nolan-McKinley and they released "Love Train/The Howlin' Dog Blues" through Festival Records in 1971. He then joined Scarecrow with Kim Tucker (bass), Greg Wilson (guitar) Rob Elliott (drums) and Michael Erikson (keyboards). He persuaded Rob Elliott to drum for the next band he put together, Trust Me; with John Magee on lead guitar, Gerry Murphy as the female vocalist, Mark Becker on bass and Denis Ferraro on keyboards, they played a number of original songs but sadly never recorded. 

In 1974 he recorded his debut album 'Tales From The Sun' on the Copperfield label with John J Francis producing. One single was lifted from the album, ''Superman''. A while later Nolan formed Beyond Madness, performing covers of Madness, Split Enz and Ian Dury songs with Mark Lacey (guitar), Greg Opie (bass), Dave Linwood (keyboards), Rob Norsworthy (trumpet), Mark Hudson (sax) and Billy Warnock on drums. Aidan then took up teaching full time and disappeared from the scene until a chance discovery by Stephen Lightbody of Two Faced Records heard his 1974 recordings of 'Tales From the Sun'. Stephen embarked on a mission to track Aidan down which he finally accomplished in 2005 leading to the re-release of Aidan's records. Aidan relocated to the USA in 2005. His second album 'Witchy Man' was released in 2014.

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