The WALK
BIOGRAPHY:
London
based band formed as Axess, and then Who's
George?, featuring former Falkirk musician Wilson Sharp (guitar), along with
his wife Janis (vocals / guitar). The duo released a single in the early 1980's
entitled "I Didn't Catch Your Name", which was picked up in Germany,
and listed in the UK as "bubbling under" the charts in Music Week. The
duo then bought their own recording studio, and ended up spending more time recording
other acts. In 2000, Janis decided to make a movie of one of her tracks ("Telepathic
Lover"), which was then picked up by a TV channel with a social purpose agenda,
and shown a couple of hundred times over two years.
At this point things took
a turn for the worse when the couple's son Gary McKinnon became obsessed with
UFO's, and attempted to find evidence of a cover up by "wandering into NASA
and Pentagon computers". After being caught by the police, and told he would
be given six months community service, the US governemnt stepped in and demanded
his extradition. The UK government then signed over McKinnon's rights to a trial.
Wilson
& Janis are now planning a sing-in outside the US Embassy, with a song written
by Graham Nash. The cuple are currently recording the song, with an extra vocal
by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and James Litherland of Colloseum.
RELEASES:
"I
Didn't Catch Your Name" (7 inch single)