At the same time as I was just picking my 1st potential drum project out of a builders skip, Ed was creating "a whole new thing" - Ok Sly did it in the sixties - But Ed and his very creative friends took it beyond simply making the music, they wrote and published it then melted the vinyl! (Ok a lot of the music they made was on cassette but you get the idea)

Somewhere in the foreign office first started life in 1983, and their origins can be experienced at www.sitfo.ukf.net . Over twenty years later SITFO consists of Mark Graham & Edward Harbud (with occasional guest artists) and 2005 finds them hard at work on their alarmingly overdue first album, which promises to be a colourful audio conglomeration, including everything fron Klezmer Tango to Sufi Rhumba.
Tucked away in their luxury countryside studio, the sound of SITFO encompasses their own personal influences and experiences amassed by more years in the music business than they care to admit. SITFO look forward to appearing in a CD tray near you in 2005 or sooner.

That's a sepia photo taken by me when I thought I was a photographer!

The Leisure sounds label featured some amazing talent and of course when Ed was finished being a mover and shaker he was powering the Dogma Cats on his Premier Drums. I tracked Ed down again after quite a few years and he's still at it! This time around he's using a PC to create music - I'm gonna sell him a drum or I'm a Dutchman!

Dogma Cats' "Live at the Dogma Café" cassette is one of the DIY-era's more famous cassette-only releases. The first side sticks pretty close to the 2nd-LP XTC sound of "Choke," the 'Cats' only vinyl (on their own Leisure Sounds label), but side 2 is just Steve Penn and Ed Harbud as The Dogmatic Duo, and apart from the predictably appalling sound-quality, it's some of the finest DIY gnarling and strumming around. "Going Up" is a DIY-pop classic. Dogma Cats morphed into The Great Divide, which soon subdivided into The Fruitbats (Ed), Jack the Bear (Steve) and The Bible (Boo Hewerdine),

Pictures from http://www.hyped2death.com/linr59.html

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