Sheep Look Up

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Our friend Dave O'Halloran (aka What Wave Dave on CHRW) has been sharing on Facebook, with our grateful permission, photos that we had taken of various bands back in the 1980's. Yesterday (November 4, 2024) Dave writes in 1980's Punk Rockers in London, Ontario group:

"Here's some more Reg Quinton pics, this time it's Sheep Look Up on the stage of Centennial Hall Feb 21 1986.

Sheep Look Up were one of those bands that coulda and shoulda made it but it just didn't happen. Members of the band at this time: Matt Owen, Gilbert Smith RIP, Mark DeRoux RIP, John Francom and Greg Moore."

I commented that we had blogged quite a bit on this before — see "LMOTV & Sheep Look Up" (1986).

Rob Minderman commented, "I have the Sheep Look Up EP that I found about 4 years ago at Kops records on Queen St. West." I added, looking through my iTunes collection,  "would it have been Entropic Concern (1983). There's also a cut "Like a Rat" on London Underground (1986)." and noted that "Oddly, Dave O'Halloran's show Radio What Wave, March 24/2022 had several cuts (I cribbed the show, I sometimes do) beyond the above ...." Dave explained that "Most of those tracks on the radio show were never released to the public. Live track recorded by Gilbert Smith's brother."

Another person commented that "This just makes me sad." So many of those young fellows are gone now.

Again these are pretty rough photos but I'm happy to share them with anyone interested. And, many thanks to Dave for his work tracking these down.

— 2024/12/20 I have moved this post to the approximate date of the event.