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Instinct were formed from the ashes of Pigbag by Simon Underwood, Angela Jaeger and James Johnstone. They signed to the ZTT record label, run by Trevor Horn and Paul Morley, home to Frankie Goes To Hollywood, the Art of Noise and Propaganda amongst others. Instinct recorded a few tracks for the label, but the only material released on record was a track, "Swamp Out", on a ZTT compilation album, "ZTT Sampled". The band also appeared at the ZTT showcase shows at the Ambassador's Theatre, London (where I was fortunate enough to meet them, briefly). A video and laserdisc of the shows were released (I do have a copy of the sound from this,and hope to make it available soon. The band recorded a session for Radio 1, 3 tracks - Over And Over, Sweat To Pay and Keep The Dream (links to MP3 files) I have a copy of the programme from The Ambassadors shows, which states on the Instinct page "RECORDS Sleepwalking (ZTAS11)". But it didn't happen..... |
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When Instinct signed to ZTT, I wrote to them and had a couple of letters back. A letter dated 30th April 1985 says they had recorded "Sleepwalking" with Trevor Horn producing and it was scheduled for June 1985 release, with an album to be recorded in July/August for September release. Nothing appeared.
A little while later, I found out what happened. Instinct had a disagreement with Trevor Horn about the production, I'd guess the "wall of sound" treatment didn't suit their music and the band and label parted company. Shortly after that, the band split.
