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Port Vale

The Houston band Port Vale played together between 1998 and 2001 in different incarnations featuring Lance Scott Walker (voice, guitar), Dan Smith (guitar), Ben Murphy (drums), John Adams (drums) and Bret Shirley (bass). They released a 7" single, "There Goes The Patience" b/w "Mass Transit At Midnight," a few months after they formed and an EP, Western Winds, in the spring of 1999.

The band takes their name from the English League Two football club Port Vale F.C., which is based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.

Port Vale appeared on several compilations and toured the Midwest and Deep South in 1999 and 2000. In late 2000 and early 2001, they recorded their only full-length, The Music The Lights The Fire, with Scott Garred (Super XX Man, Silver Scooter) at Albert Hall in Austin, Texas. It was released in March of 2001. Port Vale disbanded in the summer of 2001, reuniting once for a benefit show in September 2002.

Photo: Port Vale in New Orleans by Jordan Graber (l to r: Bret Shirley, Lance Scott Walker, John Adams)

 

 


Port Vale
The Music The Lights The Fire CD (OJET-010)

Recorded by Scott Garred (Silver Scooter, Super XX Man) at Albert Hall in Austin, Texas, heartache, long beaches, and stiff winds these 12 tracks represent the best-known Port Vale lineup of Lance Walker, Bret Shirley and John Adams. Released in March of 2001, it is the band's only full-length, and also their swansong.

Port Vale
Western Winds CDEP (OJET-004)

Six tracks produced by John Croslin and Gram Lebron at the long-extinct ClubSafeParking in Houston in the Spring of 1999. Re-sequenced on the digital version.

Port Vale
"There Goes The Patience" b/w "Mass Transit At Midnight" 7-inch (OJET-002)

Two songs recorded in the fall of 1998 by Gram Lebron in the long-extinct Houston showspace ClubSafeParking.

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