Four years ago a bunch of songs appeared on Soundcloud on an account called “All My Fault”. The interesting bit was that the songs were actually from an 80s band called All Mike’s Fault, it was just that one of the members, Mike Squire, had decided to revive it with a new working name, All My Fault.
Mike is now based in Milton Keynes but All Mike’s Fault actually hailed from Chatham. There they were formed by Mike Squire on vocals and guitar, Bob Pinnington on bass and vocals and Andrew Lay on drums. They also list Nik Andrews on guitar. Maybe he joined later?
From what I see the band recorded 7 demos in 1987 in Maidstone. On a portastudio with a different lineup, featuring Mike on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Bob on bass and electric guitar and Graham Walker on guitar, they recorded the following songs: “I Want Mine”, “Government Man”, “Foolish Dreams”, “Leaving You Tomorrow”, “Aphrodite”, “My Life” and “Loose After all these Years”.
One thing I notice is that the songs were usually written by the combo of Mike and Bob.
There is another set of songs, ones that date from 1989 and 1990. These are rehearsal recordings done in Gillingham. The songs are “Aphrodite Version 2”, “Daddy’s Gonna Give me Everything”, “The Gatecrasher Regrets It”, “The Sailor”, “Ambition”, “Is this Love?” and “Government Man 1989 rehearsal”.
Then there are a bunch of other recordings. For example “Fallen Angel” from 1991. Most interestingly there are four songs recorded in 2015 when Mike recorded four songs from back in the day. He re-recorded with Andrew on drums the songs “Daddy’s Gonna Give me Everything”, “Helping Hand”, “I Want Mine” and “Government Man”.
Mike also has another Soundcloud account with even more tracks of his, different styles even.
I haven’t been able though to find more info about this band. There’s that image that I am using here for the header pic, it looks like it was a cassette tape cover.
Other than that I don’t know anything else about this project. Did they play live much? Anyone remembers them?
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All Mike’s Fault – My Life
One Response to “:: All Mike’s Fault”
Thanks. I am the Mike of All Mike’s Fault. We played a few gigs in Medway area but split due to lack of progress. One issue was finding a main guitarist as I am more of an acoustic than electric player.
I am in regular contact with Andrew and heard from Bob a few years ago.
I now play mainly solo acoustic gigs and have played with original folk duo Higher Plane and covers act FreeFall.
You can find stuff on Youtube: Michael Squire Milton Keynes or Bradwell Village Music.