The Lens
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Biography
[Edit]Located in Southampton (England) and active during the second half of the 1970s, the Lens served as a laboratory for Mike Holmes, Peter Nicholls, and Martin Orford. After the group stopped its activities in 1981, the three of them would form IQ, with Marillion the best outfit of the neo-prog wave.
Holmes, a self-taught guitarist, art student Nicholls, and drummer Niall Hayden allegedly met in a ticket stand line for a Genesis concert in 1976. The teenagers decided on the strength of their common tastes in music to form a group. First called the Giln, then the Lens, they recruited bass player Rob Thompson and keyboardist Pete Blackler and started to perform at local colleges sometime in 1977. Holmes, being located in Manchester, missed many concerts and attended to a few only as master of ceremonies, forcing the group to concentrate on instrumental material. In the early days, Brian Marshall would replace or even second Hayden. The music followed a vein of progressive rock more trippy than symphonic, closer to Hawkwind and Ash Ra Tempel than Genesis or Yes.
By September 1977, Thompson and Blackler were out and Orford had joined. A few months later, Hayden quit, leaving Marshall in control of the drums. His brother, Les Marshall, who had never touched a bass guitar, was hired nonetheless for that position. The "classic" lineup of the Lens had been reached. Kevin Sharp joined briefly, trying to assume a Brian Eno-like role that quickly became unfit as the music evolved toward more straight-forward prog rock. But he appears on No TV Tonite, the group's sole recording, a cassette that sold a few hundred copies following some accounts.
The group continued to perform, mostly in Southampton and Bournemouth, and enjoyed the encouragement of the music magazine Musicians Only. But things were beginning to fall apart, mostly on the count of brothers Brian and Les Marshall's endless fighting (the latter became a sort of mythical figure in the history of IQ). Following a short replacement by drummer Mark Ridout (of Saruman Grass, a proto-version of Jadis), the group disbanded in early 1981.
In late 2001, Holmes and Orford entered the studio to re-record the bulk of the Lens' repertoire (released on Giant Electric Pea as A Word in Your Eye) and occasionally performed together under that name, mostly opening for IQ. ~ François Couture, Rovi
Collections
Title: 50 Trance Tunes, Vol. 7
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes, Vol. 2
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Trance Top 100, Vol. 3
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes, Vol. 5
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Markus Schulz: Amsterdam '08
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Coldharbour 100 - 100th Release Celebration
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes.com, Vol. 16
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Now Get Up and Dance, Vol. 5
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada January Releases 2008
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Famous House Tunes, Vol.5
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Minimal Hole Vol.1
Genre: Techno, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: House Music, Vol. 3
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Markus Schulz - Miami '05 (The Full Versions)
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Best of Trance, Vol. 2
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: USA Top Trance, Vol. 1
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 20 Trance Hits, Vol. 7
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Coldharbour Selections, Vol. 18
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada Top 10 - July 2010
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada - Best of 2006 Progressive
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes.com, Vol. 15
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Proghouse, Vol. 1
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Best Trance Remixes, Vol. 2
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Dance & Trance Tunes, Vol. 2
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Trance Top 100, Vol. 6
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes - Best of Vol. 1-25
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 50 Trance Tunes, Vol. 4
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: 25 All Time Trance Classics, Vol. 5
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada - The August Releases 2006
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Now Get Up and Trance, Vol. 3
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Maximum Trance, Vol. 5
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Tone Diary 013
Genre: Club/Dance
Title: Tone Diary 015
Genre: Club/Dance
Title: Tone Diary 100
Genre: Club/Dance
Title: Global Dj Broadcast Top 20 June 2012
Genre: Trance, DJ/Remixes
Title: Trance Symphony Volume 27
Genre: Trance
Title: Trance Beach Volume 39
Genre: Trance
Title: Classic Trance Collection Vol. 10
Genre: Trance, Classic Trance, Uplifting Trance, Vocal Trance
Title: Organic Trance Volume 21
Genre: Trance
Title: Trance Top 100 2013. 9 (CD2)
Genre: Trance, Progressive Trance, Uplifting Trance, Vocal Trance
Title: Big City Trance Volume 58
Genre: Uplifting Trance, Vocal Trance
Title: Sushi Volume 24
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance, Vocal Trance
Title: Trance Cookbook Vol. 55
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance
Title: Music Fur Die Klassischen Momente 2 (CD2)
Genre: World Music
Title: Seashore Desire # 75
Genre: Trance, Progressive Trance, Uplifting Trance
Title: Trance Maniacs Party: Trancefer Wave # 147
Genre: Trance
Title: MonReal Trance
Genre: Trance, Progressive Trance
Title: Oceanic Trance Volume 43
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance
Title: Sense Of Trance # 65
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance
Title: Sound Of Miami: One A. M. Volume 35
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance
Title: Trance Shivers Volume 38
Genre: Trance, Uplifting Trance, Vocal Trance
Title: Armada Trance 3
Genre: Trance
Title: Trance Top 1000 Selection Vol. 44
Genre: Trance, Progressive, Classical
Title: Trance Top 1000 Selection Vol. 38
Genre: Trance
Title: Hospital Mixtape: Lens
Genre: Drum & Bass
Title: E-Dance Basslife (CD1)
Genre: Drum & Bass, Dubstep
Title: Soul Warming Sonics
Genre: Drum & Bass
Featuring albums
Title: Global DJ Broadcast Top 20 - June 2012 (Including Classic Bonus Track)
Artist: Markus Schulz
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Armada Monthly Mix January 2008 (Mixed By Ruben de Ronde)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Coldharbour Red Recordings - The Best of 2008
Artist: Evol Waves, Glenn Morrison
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Global DJ Broadcast Top 20 - May 2013 (Including Classic Bonus Track)
Artist: Markus Schulz
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Trance Top 1000 Selection, Vol. 27
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Trance Top 1000 Selection, Vol. 38
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Trance Top 1000 Selection, Vol. 44
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Global DJ Broadcast March 1, 2018 Markus Schulz 2 Hour Mix
Artist: Markus Schulz
Genre: Electronica, Trance, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
