Prole Position on Bandcamp https://proleposition.bandcamp.com/
When musician, producer, actor and artist Ashley Spindler moved from his home town of Colchester to Coventry in 1989, he was hell bent on making music which was interesting and different, so his band The Naked And War formed and featured on the well known local compilation CD ‘16 Days – The Depot Studios’, with their track ‘I Want It Now’. After four years The Naked And War came to a natural end, leaving Ashley with an overwhelming urge to create something which hadn’t happened before and wasn’t bland, boring or predictable, whilst also being both an experimental and an emotional outlet…Prole Position was born.
Whilst Prole Position has mainly centred around Ashley as a solo artist, he has often used musicians such as drummer Pete Hnatushka (Blitzkrieg Zone), and bass players Nigel Meffen (Skeet, Simon Seachange, Spoofer, Del-Chronics, Cherry Joe & the Lightning Crew) and the late Steve Dullaghan (The Primitives) to enhance his music.
Over the last 24 years Prole Position have released 18 CD / cassettes through Ashley’s record label Numb Ratio, each one subtly different from the last.
Prole Position have also appeared on a CD released by the National magazine Vive Le Rock with the track ‘Double Negative’ and on the first Alternative Sounds CD.
The latest album is due out in late 2023.
Ashley’s publicity says –
“The multi-talented Ashley Spindler, aka Prole Position is one of the ‘wing-nuts’ that keeps the music machine rolling and with a set that combines the ‘wall of sound’ aspects of Phil Spector with the trashier excesses of ‘70’s glam, we should be in for a night of top quality ‘alternative sounds’”.
Prole Position Purge – “This live, unedited footage of the ‘Purge’ was part of the final Prole Position gig with the current line-up, filmed by Mike Page at EGO in Coventry on 11th October 2014. The track features on the latest release from Prole Position, the EP ‘We Are Not In The North, We Are Not The South. We Are In The Middle And We Are Ignored’.”
Prole Position Tin Electronic Open Mic August 2018 A unique Prole Position performance during an electronic ‘open mic’ session at The Tin Music and Arts in Coventry, captured roughly on a mobile phone.
Prole Position Shangri La la – ‘Shangri La La’ is taken from the Prole Position album ‘This Ecstasy Will Kill Us All’
PROLE POSITION REASONABLE ADJUSTMENT – The track Reasonable Adjustment is taken from Prole Position’s album This Extasy Will Kill Us All. It was mastered in Cage Studios and released n=by Numb Ratio Records. The video was made by Meffenvision.
