I'm afraid I suffer from a lack of memories of the heady Gambit of Shame days - well the gigs in particular, & I don't think it is down to the drugs, as some would have you believe. It was just all a long time ago!

I remember getting started with the band as a roadie, progressing to operating the drum machine, & then to singing & finally picking up a saxophone, although that only ever appeared on some of our later demos that I don't think were ever released to the public, which is a shame as I think our later stuff, after the single really got good.
 

If anyone has a copy of 'Settling', share it with your friends. I think it was the best thing we ever did. I could always imagine hearing it as a movie theme, something a bit espionage-ish, or certainly something of a very mysterious genre.

I remember rehearsals in Gary's front room, Sunday mornings I think, & I remember that his cat was shaved one time, poodle stylie … I was really upset that other cats in the area would laugh at it.

I do remember the gig that Paul refers to in his memories section of this web site, where the power went down. We were entertainment superstars that night & won the audience over big time. I remember one of the audience saying to his mate as I walked passed, 'she can actually sing'. I was thrilled, having arrived at the music scene through the stage door as it were.

The most thrilling moment for me in those early years was hearing John Peel play our single. I recall he introduced the single & publicised that it was produced by Robert Wyatt, ('a Robert Wyatt or the Robert Wyatt I'm not sure' was actually what he said), but that was really exciting...

Lindsay Beard

January 2006