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Allan Crockford and Ian Button probably first nodded a cursory “Alright?” to each other in 1986 when their respective bands - The Prisoners and Thrashing Doves - were on the same bill supporting a late-era Ramones at Hammersmith Palais. Their histories from that point are fairly well known. Crockford moved on after The Prisoners into the James Taylor Quartet, The Solar Flares and beyond, while Button followed up Thrashing Doves with 10+ years as guitarist for Death In Vegas before moving more into production, and his own projects. The two current bands they lead - The Galileo 7 and Papernut Cambridge - have been operating out of Kent for the last decade or more…paths have crossed...gigs have been done together….records have been exchanged. In summer 2023, a casual conversation at a Rochester covers night run by Kevin Younger of The High Span led to Button and Crockford deciding to start a new project together. They began swapping backing tracks, song skeletons, lyrics and ideas, and very quickly had enough raw material for an album, and a project name - The Penrose Web. As you’d expect, they both bring items from their own musical wardrobes to this: their own takes on sunshine pop, psych, garage, (northern) soul and indie combine in a set of dual-vocal led songs with layered harmonies and crisp punchy production. Crockford’s Medway credentials and Button’s SE London via Kent Coast retro pop chops merge geo-musically somewhere halfway along the M20. Their first EP It’s….The Penrose Web is a 7-inch 4-song mix of sinister horror garage ("Hexapod Scene", "I Dreamt I Woke Up Dead"), phased mod energy ("Leap of Faith") and no-frills power-pop ("Geraldine") - and it’s one of the first records pressed on a new bioplastic compound called Evovinyl.