Steve and Juice - 'Schizoid Joe (demo version)'

Steve and Juice - 'Schizoid Joe (demo version)'

In 1981, teenage North London duo Steve and Juice wrote and recorded an entire (concept!) album: "Schitzoid Joe". This track is one of the 4-Track Portastudio (Teac 144 to cassette!) demos recorded before the studio version (also on YouTube).
Steve and Juice are: Steve (North) and Juice (Lucy Nabijou nee Howard).
The songs were were written by Steve and Juice around Juice's original song "Schitzoid Joe"...which included elements of storytelling. For example:
"Peter Pan grew up a long time ago and now he's an office clerk, in the City. If you ask him about his childhood, he don't even remember..."
Schitzoid Joe is scattered with a late 70s mixture of Bowie, prog and psychedelic rock, folk and funk influences which (in retrospect) were desperately uncool and uncommercial at a point in music,when Punk was heading into Post-Punk and New Romantic. It's hard to hear any of the Punk/New Wave/Alt Rock/Indie influences which we all listened to at the time and would (within a year or so) inform our later bands and reordings. But, it is interesting (and somewhat charming?) to hear what many teens (even in London) were actually listening to and emulating at the time.

Lucy (Juice) Nabijou - vocals - as of 2011, she sings with the band StrangeStar.
Steve North - all guitars and bass - later of 80s Rough Trade goth-funksters Lethal Poor, thrash-country shockers If It Bleeds... and Desperate Fun.
Additional musicians (also teenage friends):
Pascol Consoli - drums - (later to play with - Boys Wonder, TOM JONES, BJORK, UNDERWORLD, D'INFLUENCE, SISTER SLEDGE)

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