Other past projects include Alternative TV, The Underneath, Evil Twin, British Racing Green and various other solo and session work.
He began playing and self-recording in 1973/4, and his first band to have a commercially released record, Lemon Kittens,[1] was formed by Blake and Gary Thatcher on 5 April 1978.
In 1982 he formed Shock Headed Peters with Ashley Wales, eventually adding Dave Knight, then Mark Rowlatt and Clive Glover .
Evil Twin was Karl Blake and David Mellor, with the addition of guest vocalist Amy Rodenberg.
The instrumental track Zoé on the Seven Pines CD Le Cri (2006)[4] was in fact written and performed by Blake on the spot and, unknown to him, orchestrated and released by the leader of Gaë Bolg, Eric Roger.