Eat: Biography

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• Discography
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• Ange Dolittle
• Jem Moorshead
• Max Lavilla
• Tim Sewell

Genre:

Alternative Rock Music

Decades Active:

1980's|1990's

Formed in the King's Cross area of London by several natives of Bath, Eat mixed hard rock, swampy blues-rock, Jim Morrison-esque poetry, and dance beats to create a singular hybrid. Eat's original lineup was fronted by vocalist/songwriter Ange Dolittle, with brothers Paul and Max Nobel on guitar and a rhythm section of Tim Sewell (bass) and Pete Howard (drums). The group built a following on London's underground scene, with Sewell and Paul Nobel frequently DJing parties on the side. Eat signed with the Fiction imprint and, after a couple of EPs, debuted on LP in 1989 with the acclaimed Sell Me a God. However, by November 1990, the band had split up as a result of both the Nobels' splitting with the rest of the band and Dolittle's heroin habit; a completed follow-up LP never saw the light of day.

In 1991, Dolittle re-formed Eat with a new guitar tandem of Jem Moorshead and Max Lavilla. The band recorded the more psychedelic Epicure in 1993, which was released in the U.S. the following year. When Eat failed to draw audiences on their supporting American tour, Dolittle again broke up the band and joined the instrumental portion of the Wonder Stuff to form We Know Where You Live in 1995.

- Steve Huey, All Music Guide