Click Click: Biography

Official press release text about the re-union. Published in the end of 1996:

C L I C K C L I C K

December 3rd, 1989 - Re-Unification Day in Germany.

December 3rd, 1989 - Click Click dissolve in Switzerland.

What happened?

Guitarist Graham Stronach leaves for Berlin to join in the celebrations and is not seen again until June, 1992. Questioned on his whereabouts for the last three and a half years, Graham is unable to recall anything positive, but begins to suffer from unexplainable flashbacks. He is committed to a home for the mentally disturbed early in 1993 where he remained until January 1996.

Drummer and spokesman for the group, Derek E Smith, leaves Switzerland for Amsterdam where he remains until August 1990. Living in a series of squats on a diet of black tea and a variety of drugs, Derek becomes alienated from the real world and retreats to the dark side of the Dutch capital. For two months he sleeps by day beneath the canvas of a disused barge and spends the nights in the warmth of an Indonesian prostitutes room where he makes himself useful brewing coffee and procurring speed and cocaine for his lady friend. He returns to England in time for Christmas 1990 and immediately finds work playing percussion and wax guitar for one of the many acid house/techno trance bands working the lower part of the United Kingdom. In 1995 he joins Tribal Energy, playing gigs in England and his beloved Amsterdam.

He founds The Hidden Corps and works in collaboration with SponSAM to formulate The Big Eye, a techno/dark ambient musical project who begin to release new and dangerous material. The working environment, though, is strained by conflicting ideals and political beliefs. Contact is soon made with blood.

Writer and vocalist Adrian Smith returns to England with the crew where he immediately attempts to salvage all that remains of the band. Graham has disappeared, Derek is in Holland, the manager is bankrupt and the record company don't want to know. Suicide seems to be an option. Wasn't it the sound of another failed attempt, the hammer falling upon empty chambers, that inspired the name Click Click back in 1985? Couldn't this peculiar inspiration be turned around once more to rejuvinate a lost band? It seemed the answer had to be no. In 1991 he thows all caution to the wind, disowns his beloved WASP synthesizer and straps on an electric guitar. The rock band DAMP is born... and dies within a year. Adrian leaves England in 1992 and travels by land to northern Spain where he sets up a music workshop for underprivileged children. His workshop is raised to the ground in January 1993, Adrian suffering third degree burns as he rushes into the flames to save the WASP. He moves back to England in March of that year. In 1994 he forms PaPERHOUsE and the Department of Polyrythmic Experimentation in Luton, England. He begins work on recordings of genetic and biorythmic sound. To finance his experiments he records music for telephone sex lines and advises on the score to a variety of pornographic movies.

In 1996 he meets his brother for the first time in seven years and discovers compatability in their musical tastes. Autumn of that year sees the first fruits of a new collectively thinking, harder and far more experimental Click Click, a re-unification of radical thought.

It is October 3rd, 1996.
Click Click are back.