4-397: Rema-Rema were a short-lived English music group, consisting of Gary Asquith (guitar/vocals), Marco Pirroni (guitar), Michael Allen (bass/vocals), Mark Cox (keyboards) and Dorothy Prior (drums, generally known only as "Max"). Asquith and Allen went to the same school. After his departure from punk band The Models , Allen asked Asquith to join in a new project, called Rema-Rema. However,
8-454: A single "I Confess" under the name Dorothy, co-written with Alex Fergusson , released on Industrial Records in 1980. Their sole four-track EP, Wheel in the Roses (released 1980 on 4AD ), featured one side of studio recordings and another of live material. Their songs "Fond Affections" and "Rema-Rema" were later covered by This Mortal Coil and Big Black respectively. Two live tracks from
12-668: The Acklam Hall gig of April 1979, "Why Ask Why?" and "Christopher" appeared on the tape only release, The Men with the Deadly Dreams , on White Stains in 1981. In 2022, a documentary about the group, What You Could Not Visualise , was directed by Italian-Canadian filmmaker Marco Porsia and premiered on 10 November 2022 at the Doc N Roll Film Festival in London. Marco Pirroni Too Many Requests If you report this error to
16-522: The group dissolved when Marco Pirroni joined Adam and the Ants . Pirroni had been an original member of Siouxsie and the Banshees , and was a short-time member of Cowboys International . Asquith, Allen, and Cox went on to form another short-lived band Mass , which then split up to form Renegade Soundwave (Asquith) and The Wolfgang Press (Allen and Cox). Max later joined Psychic TV , and also recorded
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