Afraid of Mice

Power pop / New Wave band Formed in Liverpool in 1979 by ex-Next (22) members: multi-instrumentalist - singer - songwriter Philip Franz Jones and bassist Geoff Kelly with ex-Mutants (3) and Fragments (2) Rod Gilliard, and drummer - keyboardist Clive Gee. In 1981 Sam Brew replaced Rod Gilliard which went experimental synth pop renaming himself Windows. They released one album and six singles before disbanding due to lack of success. After a period of inactivity bootleg album Afraid of Mice (The White Album) unreleased by Charisma Records surfaced as a bootleg in 1983 after which the band split up. Later the same year, Philip Franz Jones formed Two's A Crowd along with Alex McKechnie (2) a duo that would become the quartet of Up And Running. Clive Gee would later join Freeze Frame (4)