Paul Draper And Mansun

Odd fish in the Britpop surge, they began with a lucky break. But the end was dark, mad and terrifying.

- Ian Harrison

HELLO LATE 1994

I was living in Chester and working at a printing place in Ellesmere Port, and there was a guy there Steve King [AKA Stove King], a bass player. It started off basically like Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine – him on bass, me on rhythm guitar, and a drum machine, doing my Beatlesesque songs. We always booked Crash rehearsal studios in Liverpool on Sundays for four hours, dragging in a rotating cast of people. There was a Pink Floyd-y guitarist, a hip-hop DJ, lots of others. I don’t think they could be bothered coming back, because they thought it was rubbish.