Alec Bathgate

It can not be possible for Alec Bathgate. Because the “additional” High Dwarf he constantly appears to stand in the shadows from the even more extroverted Chris Knox. It might be not difficult to dismiss Bathgate because the Jim Messina to Knox’s Kenny Loggins (or, even more charitably Bruce Foxton to Knox’s Paul Weller). Yet, those judgements wouldn’t become fair. Maybe, an XTC analogy might better do just fine with this case-if Knox may be the High Dwarfs’ Andy Partridge, the greater low-key Bathgate is obviously their Colin Moulding. Because the High Dwarfs’ main guitarist, Bathgate offers always made main contributions to High Dwarfs lps. And that is to say nothing at all of his songwriting skills-“Pictures on to the floor” from Louis Loves His Daily Drop, “Mr. Brocoili” from Weeville, and 3EPS’ “Bee to Honey” are but three of the numerous jangling gems he’s taken to the desk. When Knox started his single profession in 1989, the High Dwarfs continued the trunk burner for any few years, and it wasn’t until 1996 that Bathgate adopted suit using a single record of his very own. Silver Lame not-too-surprisingly noises nearly the same as a High Dwarfs record, with bright strummed music augmented with Casio key pad, quirky looped beats, piano, xylophone, as well as the functions. Firmly entrenched within the sounds from the ’60s, Silver Lame draws motivation from the most common suspects-the Beach Children, the Kinks, and, needless to say, the Beatles (Bathgate’s George Harrison to Knox’s John Lennon?? Oh ignore it….).