Geoff Mann

Geoff Mann
File:Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990.png Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990 File:Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990.png Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990 File:Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990.png Geoff Mann, outside the Marquee, London, 1990 Geoff Mann
Born	11 April 1956 Altrincham, England
💀Died	5 February 1993 Rochdale, England5 February 1993
Cause of death	cancer
💼 Occupation

Geoff Mann (born Edmund Geoffrey Mann on 11 April 1956) was a British artist, playwright, poet, musician and vicar.

After graduating from the University of Reading with a degree in Fine Art, he spent three years as a professional artist, holding exhibitions in Cambridge, Blackburn, Accrington, Manchester, Bury, Blackpool and Stockport between 1978 and 1981.

In August 1981 he accepted an invivation to join some old university friends as lead singer in the band Twelfth Night, performing at the presitigious Reading Festival on 28 August 1981. Over the next two years, the band would headline the Marquee Club in London, appear again at the Reading Festival and release the albums Smiling at Grief and Fact and Fiction.

Mann left Twelfth Night in November 1983 after two farewell gigs at the Marquee. These are documented on the album Live and Let Live.

Geoff's post-Twelfh Night work was guided by his conversion to christiany. He released three solo albums between 1984 and 1986: Chants Would Be A Fine Thing, I May Sing Grace and Psalm Enchanted Evening, all recorded quickly and distributed by Geoff himself.

In parallel he wrote the play A Conveniant Day, which was performed at the Latchmere Theatre in Battersea and at the Edinburgh Festival, and took the lead in the musicals The Dawn, Tomorrow and A Cry in the Wilderness in 1985-1987.

Mann formed The Bond in November 1985 with Steve Ridley (keyboards), Dave Mortimer (guitar) and Andy Mason (drums). Mason would leave after a few months, with the remaining musicians using a drum machine for recording. The Bond released two albums: Won By One (1987) and Prints of Peace (1988). The Bond were succeeded by Eh! Geoff Mann Band between 1989 and 1993, releasing Loud Symbols (1990) and Ministry Of The Interior (1991). In this period, Mann released two albums with guitarist Marc Catley.

Geoff enrolled on the Northern Ordination Course in 1986, graduating in 1989. He was appointed deacon at Christ's Church, Harwood (1989-1992) and vicar at St. Luke's, Rochdale (1992-1993).

Geoff's health began to deteriote in summer 1992. His final musical projects were the solo album Second Chants (1992) and a collaboration with Clive Nolan called Casino (1992).

After a flawed diagnosis of Crohn's Disease, a new conclusion of intestinal cancer was confirmed. Geoff died at home in Rochdale on 5 February 1993.

Discography

• Smiling at Grief - Twelfth Night: January 1982, re-released on CD in 1997 with 4 bonus tracks, in 2009 as the Definitive Edition with 14 additional tracks and in 2022 with all new (re)mixes from the original master tapes
• Fact and Fiction - Twelfth Night: December 1982, re-released on CD in 2002 with 7 bonus tracks; re-released again on CD in 2018 as the Definitive Edition with 31 bonus tracks
• Live and Let Live - Twelfth Night: January 1984, re-released on CD in 1996 with 3 bonus tracks, re-released as the Definitive Edition in 2012 with 7 additional bonus tracks
• Chants Would Be A Fine Thing – Geoff Mann: March 1984
• I May Sing Grace – Geoff Mann: September 1984
• Psalm Enchanted Evening – Geoff Mann: February 1986
• Won By One – The Bond: July 1987
• In Difference – Marc Catley and Geoff Mann: July 1988
• Prints of Peace – The Bond: August 1988
• Loud Symbols – A Geoff Mann Band: May 1990
• The Off The End Of The Pier Show – Marc Catley and Geoff Mann: May 1991
• Collector's Item - Twelfth Night: 1991, reissued with some different tracks 2001
• Ministry of the Interior – Eh! Geoff Mann Band: October 1991
• Second Chants – Geoff Mann: May 1992
• Casino - Clive Nolan and Geoff Mann: July 1992
• Recorded Delivery - Geoff Mann, 2003
• Smiling at Grief ... Live - Twelfth Night: March 2003, live recording from 1981
• A Midsummer's Night Dream - Twelfth Night: 2005, live recording from 1980
• Flashbacks - Twelfth Night: 2006, live recording from 1983
• Voices in the Night - Twelfth Night: 2007, live and studio recordings from 1980 to 1997
• Hit Me With Your Gibbon Stick- Eh! Geoff Mann Band, 2012

References

Play On: The Authorised Biography of Twelfth Night (Twelfth Night, 2009) His Love: Geoff Mann's Art, Music and Faith (Sonic Bond, 2023)

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