Robinson & Woltil

Steve Robinson is a British ex-pat lost in America…Ed Woltil is a Florida boy who has always felt that England was his real musical homeland.

Steve’s old band, The Headlights, regularly shared stages with Woltil’s power-pop trio, Mad For Electra, throughout the 80’s in the Tampa Bay area…in a strange twist, Woltil even briefly replaced Robinson in The Headlights line-up when Robinson decided to bow out.

Now they’re teaming up in a shared obsession to create their perfect pop “album.” You know, a collection of songs that you want to hear in sequence from beginning to end, then back around to the beginning again (and with modern technology, you don’t even have to rise from your chair for pesky necessities like “turning the record over to Side Two” or “lowering the needle to the beginning of Track Three”).

Of course, if you want even the chance of attaining pop perfection, you’ve got to pray that XTC’s Dave Gregory will grace some of your songs with his otherworldly guitar skills…incredibly, that’s just what has happened (I know…Steve and Ed are still wondering what exactly they did to deserve that bit of serendipity). Add the skills of bassist Andy Irvine, and drumming wunderkind Chuck Darling, and you’ve got the makings of “Cycle,” an 18(!)-song compendium of musical marvels, coming to you from Sunshine Drenchy in early 2012.