Steve and Juice - 'Schitzoid Joe'

In 1981, teenage North London duo Steve and Juice wrote and recorded an entire (concept!) album: "Schitzoid Joe".
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.
Engineered by Paul Anastasi at The Pitz studio in Crouch End, which was previously The Tourists' rehearsal space.
Produced by: Steve and Juice and Paul Anastasi
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)
Nick Bunker - keyboards - Fischer-Z/Fatima Mansions
Special guest star on this album was legendary jazz and blues saxophonist the late Dick Heckstall-Smith (1934--2004). He played with some of the most important English blues-rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s. His credits include: Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation (with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker), John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (with Jon Hiseman and future Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor), Colosseum and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green. On the day of the recording (a Sunday morning, I seem to remember!), Dick turned up and improvised his sax parts on all of the 'Schitzoid Joe' tracks over an hour, or so! I'm sure he was gently amused to be scattering his magic over a teenage concept album, but he never let on :) We are eternally grateful for his contribution...what a nice guy.

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