Martin Glover
| Martin Glover | |
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Martin Glover performing at the 2009 Ilosaarirock festival.
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Youth, Orion |
| Born |
27 December 1960 Farnworth, Lancashire, England |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Rock, post-punk, experimental rock, electronica, ambient, dub |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, record producer |
| Instruments | Bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer |
| Associated acts | Killing Joke, The Verve, Brilliant, The Orb, The Fireman, Zodiac Youth, Celtic Cross, Transmission, Suns of Arqa, Vertical Smile, Paul McCartney, Hypnopazūzu, David Gilmour |
Martin Glover, also known as Youth or Orion, (born 27 December 1960 in Farnworth, Lancashire) is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman, along with Paul McCartney.
Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, between the ages of 11 and 17 Glover attended the fee-paying boarding school Kingham Hill School.
Naming himself "Pig Youth" after the reggae chanter Big Youth in 1977 he joined punk band The Rage, who toured with The Adverts. Later he joined 4" Be 2" - a band formed by John Lydon's brother Jimmy Lydon - and recorded the "One of the Lads" single with them.
Glover is most famous for being the bass player in Killing Joke. He left the band in 1982, and soon after founded his own commercially orientated dub funk band Brilliant, which recorded one album in 1986 before later disbanding.
In 1989, Youth and Alex Paterson started the WAU! Mr. Modo label. Their early releases of a selection of industrial techno dubs and heavy sound system dubs from artists such as Napthali, Manasseh, Bim Sherman and Jah Warrior are long deleted and fetch high sums in private sales.
Youth's connections with dub continued in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Adrian Sherwood to remix some of Bim Sherman's tracks for a reworking of the Miracle album. He also recently appeared on a Ted Parsons/NIC dub album, contributing a remix which opens with a sample from Glen Brown's "Version '78", a track originally released on the South East label.
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