Frazier Chorus
Background information
Origin	Brighton, England
Years active	1987–1996
Label(s)	4AD Records Virgin Records
Website	This Mortal Coil Lush
Former members
Tim Freeman Michelle Allardyce Kate Holmes Chris Taplin

Frazier Chorus was a pop group from Brighton, England. A pop group without a drummer, bassist or guitarist, they unusually instead utilised flute, clarinet, bongos and hush-hush vocals.

Contents 1 Career 2 Trivia 3 Discography 3.1 Singles 3.2 Albums 3.3 American Chart Info 4 Reference

Career

Originally a four-piece, they signed to British indie record label 4AD Records and released one single, "Sloppy Heart" on that label in 1987. Shortly afterwards they moved to Virgin Records, and achieved reasonable chart success with a string of melodic pop songs about Dream Kitchens, Happy Eaters and Little Chefs, all taken from their 1989 debut album, Sue.

With the emergence of the indie-dance scene in the early 1990s the band changed tack. One band member was dismissed for pretending to be lesbian and singles from their second album Ray were remixed into indie-dance floorfillers by a number of top remixers, including Paul Oakenfold, Chad Jackson and Youth. The band were restyled from the fey indie pop band of 1989 into an act more like The Beloved and If?.

Singer Tim Freeman released a 3rd album billed as Frazier Chorus (Wide Awake), which did not reach the UK Albums Chart as it was released years after Ray on a small indie label, whilst Kate Holmes descended into electronica via the bands Technique and Client. Freeman was also responsible (as half of nu-skool breakbeat duo Sly-Fi) for "the rudest record of all time", 2005's appallingly catchy 12", "Wild Wild Child" (Marine Parade). This record was responsible for the coining of the now well-used phrase "daddy-wanker", perhaps Freeman's proudest moment.

Trivia

Freeman is the brother of Martin Freeman, the British actor who starred in the multi award winning TV series The Office, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Martin's Freeman's character "Tim" is based on Tim Freeman.

Discography

Singles

• "Sloppy Heart" (4AD Records)
• "Dream Kitchen" (Virgin Records) - UK #57
• "Typical!" (Virgin Records) - UK #53
• "Sloppy Heart" (Virgin Records) - UK #73
• "Nothing" (Virgin Records) - UK #51
• "Cloud 8" (Virgin Records) - UK #52
• "Walking On Air" (Remix) (Virgin Records) - UK #60
• "Driving"

Albums

• Sue (1989) - UK #56
• Ray (1991) - UK #66
• Wide Awake (1996)

• Monkey Spunk (1998) - A collection of Frazier Chorus demos

1. Christmas Every Year (3:23)
2. Answerphone 1 (0:35)
3. I Want You Around (3:21)
4. Wide Awake control room excerpt (0:41)
5. If The Weather Was Up To Me (2:59)
6. Radio chit-chat (0:24)
7. So You're Sorry (4:22)
8. Answerphone 2 (0:35)
9. Good Grief (3:18)

American Chart Info

Year	Title	Chart positions	Album
		US Modern Rock
1991	"Cloud 8"	#17	Ray

Reference

• Guinness Book of British Hit Singles - 19th Edition - ISBN 1-904994-10-5