Malcolm Morley - Infinity Lake (2019)

Many will best remember Malcolm Morley from his tenure in Man, a band he toured and recorded with in the mid-1970s. He features on their highly acclaimed 1974 album, the Roy Thomas Baker-produced ‘Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics’ – considered by many to be their finest work.

But that wasn’t Malcolm’s recording debut by any means – that came a few years earlier with cult favourites, Help Yourself, a band he steered to four highly acclaimed albums on UA and a live performance at the first ever Glastonbury festival in 1971. With John Peel dubbing Malcolm "a mad mutant about town," his musical talents were soon in demand with everyone from genre-defining pub rockers Bees Make Honey, to Kirsty MacColl, Deke Leonard and Wreckless Eric.

As part of Wreckless Eric’s band he was part of the infamous Be Stiff Route '78 tour, which in true Stiff style toured the UK travelling by train! Following another semi-chaotic Stiff adventure in the USA Malcolm went into semi-retirement, restricting his musical activities to just two solo albums in the following decades – the evocative 'Lost & Found' (recorded with the help of Plummet Airlines) and the groundbreaking ‘Aliens’ - alongside the issue of Help Yourself's legendary lost album ‘5'.

Much to the delight of his fans, more recent years have seen Malcolm rediscover his mojo, re-joining Man as part of their touring line-up and performing a series of solo gigs in and around his north London home. In 2019 came the news everyone had been waiting for, a new album of exquisite Morley compositions, the achingly beautiful ‘Infinity Lake’.

Released at the end of 2019, that album has inspired Malcolm to form The Infinity Lake Band. Their live debut is at the Half Moon on 16 February 2020. It is a date that Malcolm’s fans have long anticipated and will look forward to with relish.