A Soundcloud account under the name of Urban Paranoia has two tracks of an 80s band called Split in Two. These tracks are “Chameleon Days” and “Falling Down”.

There is no information about the band. Who they were. Where were they from. When were they active. I say 80s, cause the sounds tells me they are from the 80s. But let’s see if I can find any information about them.

I believe the band hailed from the area around Walsall in the UK. And this blog post from Brown Hills Bob confirms the band being from that area and from that time period.

Here the author mentions that he had seen bands in the area including Split in Two.

He has shared a fanzine called “I Just Haven’t Named it Yet, Baby” where bands like The Mighty Lemon Drops or Julian Cope are featured. In this fanzine Split in Two are also featured.

This seems to have the best info I am going to get about the band. Here they mention some songs I didn’t know about called “Another Edge”, “Rosie” or “For a Day.” It is a small interview with the band members, there are no real names but their aliases I suppose. These are Kimbo, Way, Wut and Dez. So at least we know they were a four-piece.

An interesting little detail is that they say their songs had been played in Radio 5 in Durban and Radio Cape in Capetown and also some other radio stations in South Africa. How did their music get there? It seems they had written a song called “Each Day I Die” which is an anti-South Africa song?

Another song is mentioned, one called “Don’t Fall”. Their influences? They mention weird bands like Anthrax but also The Chameleons.

Lastly we get some names. It seems after the interview the band had some changes, guitarist Derek “Camouflage” Glynn left the band and Pelsoll Plucker replaced him.

Another mention here are some gigs the band played including at Knights in Lichfield, were the fanzine writer attended. A few more songs mentioned, “Monday Afternoon” and “Things that Happened Yesterday”. And that’s not all, some forthcoming gigs are posted, at Coach and Horses in West Bromwich,  J.B.’s in Dudley and Barrel Organ in Birmingham.

And that’s what I could find. A bit more than I expected! Anyone remembers them?

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Split in Two – Falling Down