{"id":282,"date":"2021-08-04T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/prole-position\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:26:00","slug":"prole-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2021\/08\/04\/prole-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Prole Position"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prole Position on Facebook –<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Prole Position on Bandcamp https:\/\/proleposition.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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Prole Position website https:\/\/prolepositionblog.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/b>
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Prole Position<\/b> is basically Ashley Spindler<\/b> – sometimes with a few musicians.<\/span><\/div>\n

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From Nigel Meffen<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

When musician, producer, actor and artist Ashley Spindler <\/b>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<\/b> formed and featured on the well known local compilation CD \u201816 Days \u2013 The Depot Studios\u2019, with their track \u2018I Want It Now\u2019. After four years The Naked And War came to a natural end, leaving Ashley with an overwhelming urge to create something which hadn\u2019t happened before and wasn\u2019t bland, boring or predictable, whilst also being both an experimental and an emotional outlet\u2026Prole Position<\/b> was born. <\/p>\n

Whilst Prole Position has mainly centred around Ashley as a solo artist, he has often used musicians such as drummer Pete Hnatushka<\/b> (Blitzkrieg Zone), and bass players Nigel Meffen <\/b>(Skeet, Simon Seachange, Spoofer, Del-Chronics, Cherry Joe & the Lightning Crew) and the late Steve Dullaghan<\/b> (The Primitives) to enhance his music. <\/p>\n

Over the last 24 years Prole Position have released 18 CD \/ cassettes through Ashley\u2019s record label Numb Ratio, each one subtly different from the last. <\/p>\n

Prole Position have also appeared on a CD released by the National magazine Vive Le Rock with the track \u2018Double Negative\u2019 and on the first Alternative Sounds CD. <\/p>\n

The latest album is due out in late 2023.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Emma Sayers <\/b>of the now defunct band Filthy Cake<\/b> tells us that Ashley is “a great artist too – paintings and sculpture<\/i>” <\/span><\/div>\n


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“The multi-talented Ashley Spindler, aka Prole Position is one of the \u2018wing-nuts\u2019 that keeps the music machine rolling and with a set that combines the \u2018wall of sound\u2019 aspects of Phil Spector with the trashier excesses of \u201870\u2019s glam, we should be in for a night of top quality \u2018alternative sounds\u2019”.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Prole Position – Pete Chambers from The Coventry Observer Thursday April 30th 2020<\/b><\/div>\n
Prole Position have an new EP out.<\/b><\/div>\n
Prole (or Ashley Spindler) who is the man behind the project) is a genius – fact.<\/div>\n
It is a constant frustration that this guy is not a major artist. With Prole Position, there is always something different on offer, always original, always intense and as real as it can be. Yet, it is a travesty that the world hasn’t woken up to him. To me he hasn’t ever made a bad record.<\/div>\n
His new EP “All This For the Sake of Penetration” is another high quality offering; imagine the scene, high guitars, hypnotic drum beats, and a unique vocal line cutting through it all like some demented soul that’s determined to be heard.<\/div>\n
If it sounds like some unnatural cacophony then think again, despite the hard edge the leody always gets through, it’s quite an experience listening to Prole Position, but once you get it, you get it.<\/div>\n
This EP is another highlight to a classic body of work. Prole could not be accused of the use of understatement, and this set of songs explore the erotic, psychotic side of life, you will get no moon in June here, thank you.<\/div>\n
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I have no idea if Ashley sets out to shock. I would think he doesn’t, he’s just saying it as he sees it. He’s an artist and a writer and producer, fine artist and actor. The inventor of Existential Glam. So there is never any room for compromise. And why should he, although it may be a hint as to why his music defies mainstream attention.<\/div>\n
Either way, it’s time you became a fan.<\/div>\n
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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’.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/div>\n


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Prole Position Shangri La la – ‘Shangri La La’ is taken from the Prole Position album ‘This Ecstasy Will Kill Us All’<\/span><\/div>\n


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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.<\/span><\/div>\n


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