Quarterdeck / Quarter Deck

• Lorraine Walls - vocals
• Mick McCarney - guitar
• Paul Miller - keyboards
• Shaun McCarron - sax
• Billy Robinson - bass
• Laurence Doherty - drums
  
  
  Quarterdeck photographed in Dokkum, The Netherlands in 1986.
  L-R: Lorraine Walls, Paul Miller, Shaun McCarron?, Billy Robinson, Laurence Doherty, Mick McCarney.
  [photo Alex Bouwma]

Bio:

Original vocalist Dave Harvey appears on the first single only which is credited to Quarter Deck. Lorraine Walls joined thereafter. Mick McCarney (not the Redeemer guitarist) played guitar with the band up to 1986(?).

My original description of Quarterdeck as "Jazz-funk in jumpsuits" was perhaps a little reductionist, but anything that reminds me of Shakatak and the mercifully brief period when boiler suits were considered fashionable is facing an uphill struggle. Quarterdeck's records are better and more varied than this suggests and they were certainly a pioneering outfit in Irish terms. They played both the Cork Jazz Festival and the Trinity Ball in 1984.

"Loosely our roots are in free-form jazz, improvization stuff. We're not a jazz funk band like Level 42 or Shakatak, but we use the better elements of that genre."--Billy Robinson, 1984.

     

If anyone knows what happened to the members of Quarterdeck please get in touch. Billy Robinson's name later appeared as engineer on many Mary Black albums.

Collects the three Bus Records singles (A and B sides) plus one new track "Jealous Child"

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