Differing Views

 Random Hold was a band that was formed by two friends, David Ferguson and David Rhodes in 1976 following a concert by Phil Manzanera's band 801.

The band went through a number of line up changes but

#eventually won a record deal with Polydor records and

released their debut album produced by Van Der Graaf

Generator's Peter Hammill. The band also managed to

secure the support slot on Peter Gabriel's 1980 tour when

the singer toured the UK and America.

Following the release of a number of singles and the one

official Peter Hammill produced album Random Hold

continued to record and prepare for more releases. These

recordings however were not released until much later and

the band had folded. The next project for David Ferguson

was the band Nine Ways To Win who secured a recording

contract with Atlantic records and released one album in

1983.

Differing Views is a double album including many previously

unavailable tracks now contained in one package including

a number of tracks from the Nine Ways To Win album

including Painting Over Cracks, All Sit Down and Second

Cross On The Hill. Also included are demos for Painting

Over Cracks and Second Cross On The Hill.

For long time fans of Random Hold however the real find

will be the bonus track on disc two which features a video

MPEG of the band performing live at the Theatre Royal

Drury Lane on their first tour.

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