’90s, Andy has contributed orchestral work to the theatre and also appeared with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch, as well as Pete Doherty.
Mick Hutchinson withdrew altogether from the music business for a number of years and worked in a bicycle warehouse. Initially, he took up cycling as a means of distraction from the excesses of alcohol and the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, but it became an integral part of his life and today he is still a keen cyclist. Similarities abound here with Pink Fairies and Hawkwind guitarist Paul Rudolph. Perhaps there was something about cycling that disillusioned guitarists found therapeutic in the early ’70s? “Eric Clapton, Steve Vai. I think it’s a bit of a Yin Yang balance type thing. It sort of balances out the music... Cycling seems to sort your brain out. All that booze left it a bit wobbly. Long distance cycling – 70- 100 miles or more – has a psychedelic effect on the mind too... Long distance cycling sort of trips you out!”
Remaining musically inactive for the best part of the next two decades, Hutchinson reappeared in ’98 to release Eclecticus, as Mick Hutchinson & Magic Dragon. Eclecticus at the same time built upon the foundations laid by A=MH2 30 years earlier, as well as marking a new beginning for Hutchinson. Combining as it does Eastern influences and more modern techno in places, it’s not too hard to imagine Steve Hillage’s System 7 doing something similar. At other times it might as easily be edgy soundtrack music for an atmospheric thriller.
Music videos posted on YouTube and various other web pages bear testimony to the fact that Hutchinson has been very prolific musically in the years since Eclecticus, and some new exclusive preview tracks show that Hutchinson still isn’t afraid of diversifying. ‘Demons Of The Brown’, for example, is an anti-heroin instrumental interspersed with deeply growled spoken vocals, and combines Metallica-like heavy guitar riffing with Indian influenced psychedelia. It is a direction Hutchinson hopes to continue with the reformed Clark Hutchinson – a reunion that that was originally mooted in the ’80s, but after many distractions later, finally came to fruition at the end of 2007 and has since resulted in Clark Hutchinson, including Del Coverley, reconvening at Mick’s home studio to record a song for a forthcoming Deviants and Pink Fairies tribute CD. The last word goes to Mick Hutchinson: “We are having a serious reunion – more videos, an instrumental album, a single and several more songs in the pipeline... We plan to do some gigs when we get some music finished.”
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