Another Soundcloud find. This time from the 90s.

Hailing from Plymouth, UK, Reach was formed by Rich Avery, Doc Collins, Nick Mee and Marc Hackworthy. It looks like it is Nick who has uploaded a bunch of the band’s recording to the web.

I google the band but as you can expect it is hard to find a band called Reach. It is not the best name for the digital age. But let’s see what details we can find.

The band played across the UK but that wasn’t all. They also played gigs in Germany, Finland and Norway. Sadly I can’t find whereabouts they played. Was it a festival? Was it a tour playing different cities? Would be nice to know.

The songs uploaded are in chronological order…

“Goodbye Happy” that was recorded at Daylight Studios in Honiton in 1993. The engineer was “Iron” Dent.

“Pay the Price” and “Dreams of the Children” which date from 1994 and were recorded at The Unit in Plymouth with Rich Dickson as engineer.

“Manic Chillum Rush” from 1994 that was recorded at The Outhouse in Reading with John Mitchell as engineer.

“Born One of Them”, “Wasting Time” and “Overload” which was recorded at The Outhouse in Reading in 1995 with John Mitchell again.

In 1996 the band recorded “Heaven Set in Sorrow” at the Plymouth Musicians Co-Op.

Then with Mark Stiles as engineer the band recorded “Schizophrenic Boy”, “God” and “Changing All Over” in 1997 at Plymouth Musicians Co-Op.

I look for the people behind the band. It is a long shot. But maybe I can track them done. Is Nick Mee an Aston Martin dealer? Or Marc Hackworthy an artist and piano technician now based in Somerset? Rich Avery the head of academic, corporate and commercial events at University of Plymouth? Perhaps! But I can’t be 100% sure.

I feel the one that I could be more sure of is Andrew “Doc” Collins. It seems he is an engineer and producer at the Plymouth Musicians Co-Op/Plymouth Music Collective Studios. That makes sense. There’s a connection. It looks like he has produced a lot of metal bands though (!).

Anyone remembers Reach?

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Listen
Reach – Wasting Time