God Machine

The God Machine was an alternative rock band, active in the first half of the 1990s. Its members were all from San Diego, California, but they all lived and performed mainly in the United Kingdom and across Europe. 
The band consisted of three members, Robin Proper-Sheppard (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fernandez (bass) and Ronald Austin aka Austin Lynn Austin (drums), and they first performed officially under the name The God Machine in 1991. They released an EP, Purity with the Eve record label, and were later given a recording contract with Fiction Records. They released two albums in their career, both with their trademark dark and industrial-sounding alternative rock, before Fernandez suddenly died from brain hemorrhage. 
Their single release of "Home", peaked at No. 65 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1993. Proper-Sheppard went on to form The Flower Shop Recordings label, and bands Sophia and The May Queens. In 2020, after nearly 3 decades, Austin formed and launched his own music project, Mercylane.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played many of their records in the early 90's including a session they recorded for his programme in 1992. He revisited the group in 2002 by playing their track, 'It's All Over', which was taken from their 1993 album, 'Scenes From The Second Storey'.
==Sessions==
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1. Recorded: 1992-04-21. First Broadcast: 29 May 1992. Repeated: 31 July 1992
*Commitment / Desert Song / Double Dare / Pictures Of A Bleeding Boy
==Other Shows Played==
;1991
*27 October 1991: Home (12" EP - Purity) Eve 
*16 November 1991: Home (12" EP - Purity) Eve 
*29 December 1991: Home (12" EP - Purity) Eve 
;1992
*15 February 1992: Home (12" - Purity) Eve
*16 May 1992: Commitment (12" - The Desert Song EP) Fiction
*24 May 1992 (BFBS): Commitment (12" - The Desert Song EP) Fiction
*02 October 1992: Ego (EP) Fiction
*10 October 1992: Ego (EP) Fiction
*11 October 1992 (BFBS): Ego (CD Single) Fiction
;1993
*08 January 1993: Home (CD Single) Fiction
*23 January 1993 (BFBS): Home (single) Fiction 
*29 January 1993: I've Seen The Man (album - Scenes From The Second Storey) Fiction
*05 February 1993: She Said (album - Scenes From The Second Storey) Fiction
*14 February 1993 (BFBS): I've Seen The Man (album - Scenes From The Second Storey ) Fiction
;1994
*01 October 1994: Mama (album - One Last Laugh in A Place Of Dying) Fiction
*08 October 1994 (BFBS): Mama (album - One Last Laugh in A Place Of Dying...) Fiction 
*08 October 1994 (BFBS): In Bad Dreams (album - One Last Laugh in A Place Of Dying...) Fiction 
*14 October 1994: In Bad Dreams (album - One Last Laugh in A Place Of Dying) Fiction
*15 October 1994 (BFBS): Painless (album - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying...) Fiction
*29 October 1994 (BFBS): 'In Bad Dreams (LP-One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying...)' (Fiction / Polydor)
;2002
*15 January 2002: It's All Over (LP - Scenes From The Second Storey) Fiction
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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