Ghost Club "Suicide Train" 2006

Abbott’s name was a new one to most NZ rock and pop train spotters, his CV not as canonical as the rest of Ghost Club. His earliest band, Selwyn College’s self-deprecating The Worst, saw Abbott on drums, with Peter McLennan (Hallelujah Picassos) on guitar and Troy Ferguson (long time 95bFM radio host and music writer) on bass. A posthumous cassette comp released in 1984 rated an enthusiastic Chris Knox review in RipItUp. The Worst birthed an experimental side project, The Jellys, with Abbott, Ferguson and Simon Josey on small and homemade instruments, and tape loops...
...Abbott first met Mitchell in 1985 and met Roughan around the time he was playing bass with the short-lived Toad (1991-92), which featured former Axel Grinders John Segovia, Duane Zarakov and Celia Mancini, with Abbott on bass. “We only played live a couple of times,” says Abbott. “I went away to Wellington for a few weeks and when I came back to Auckland, Shaft and King Loser had formed and Toad were no more.”
After Auckland, Abbott landed in London in 1993, and formed the Club with Roughan and Mitchell when they arrived in 1997. “Our first practice was in my fourth floor council flat at the Elephant and Castle in South London using small amps and a child's drum machine.” (Abbott)
trax:
01 Sea Shaped Stone 02 Subterranean 03 Los Hombres invisible 04 Darkest Light 05 Mother London 06 La Maree 07 Bone 08 Train Wreck In Cold Snow 09 Suicide Train
…served by Gaius…