Assembly Communications Assembly Communications  were formed in 1996 in Bristol. The line up was as follows: Bob Barnaville - Guitars and Keys Luke Gale - Bass Guitar Chris Macartney - Drums Nick Talbot - Guitar and Voice

The band took inspiration from a variety of sources including Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Wire, The Smiths and Slint. From the outset it was clear that they were something special. The band were cut down in their prime by the death of Luke in October 1999. The triumphant performance at Liverpool In the City was to be their last, and finest gig with Luke. The band have since dissolved, but the spirit and most of the material played as Assembly has lived on in Nick's Gravenhurst project. www.gravenhurst.org / derekheadvoices@aol.com Press Reviews "Things calm down with the glorious and soon-to-be-ignored- no-longer four-piece Assembly at the Zanzibar. Portishead and Japan meeting Blondie and the Velvet Underground in the sonic wreckage of a burning airliner, they have been lost in the wilderness for five years. Until tonight. At this all-too- conservative event, their painful elegance is a rarity indeed." Neil Thomson, NME 9 October 1999 (Liverpool In The City) "Likeably intense and intensely likeable, Assembly Communications radiate self assurance like a straight A student on a new bike. They know they're good, know they can go far, know they'll lose nothing by opening this trio of associated bands. And they don't. Tonight's weather means that few late comers are added to the dedicated crowd in from the off, and AC get the maximum attention and concentration. I guess the guy who presented them with the ice bucket of champagne has done the like before. "I love these bands" he mutters, and they are indeed the sort of experience that merits such devotion. Capos on electric guitars suggest an early interest in things Sonically Youthful; the sculptured feedback and bursts of controlled feedback reinforce that connection but these pieces are more carefully constraucted than prime Evol-era Youth, and there's something that recalls the post-Neu! jangle drone guitar of La Dusseldorf to this admittedly over informed reviewer. The singer boasts an unexpectedly fine and refined set of pipes and the electronic kit plastic synth sounds right after awhile on the last number. You would be well advised to crowd into their next gig and buy champagne too. I'll drink it if they won't." (Venue Magazine)