Mark Gatland
It’s been just over 10 years since Invisible provided first sight of the sometimes spiky, baleful, ambient, enraged, dystopian, yet always thoughtful world of Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate. Originally accompanied by guitarist and drummer guests, the duo of composer/lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/lead vocalist Malcolm Galloway and partner-in-prog Mark Gatland on bass, additional guitars and keyboards have settled into what is now a two-man operation (armed live with just their instruments and a laptop) joined occasionally by Galloway’s wife, Kathryn Thomas, on flute.
On the release of their seventh album, , the band talk to via video-call on Gatland’s phone – Galloway’s is no longer operable since falling into a bowl of yoghurt. “It’s not a particularly rock’n’rock story,” is a great funk-fuelled, insistent example of the latter.
