including Falling Mirror
TINY FOLK (1964) ----------------- brother & sister | | folk duo MELANIE RICHARD HYAM HYAM vocals guitar | | | +-----+ | | | THE BLUE THREE (1965) | --------------------- | | | | | RICHARD TULLY MIKE | HYAM McCULLY McCULLY | guitar bass drums | | | | +-----------+ +---------+ | | | THE BLUE BEATS #1 (1965-66) | --------------------------------------- | | | | | | | MARTIN TULLY MIKE MAURICE BERNIE | TREADWAY McCULLY McCULLY FINDLAY TAYLOR | guitar bass drums guitar organ | | | | +---------------------+---------+---------+ | THE BLUE BEATS #2 (1967) --------------------------------------- | | | | | MELANIE TULLY MIKE MAURICE RICHARD HYAM McCULLY McCULLY FINDLAY HYAM vocals bass drums guitar guitar | | | | The Runaways, +---------+---------+-----------------+ The End | | THE LARFING STOCKE (1968) | ----------------------------------------- | | | | | | +--------> ALLAN MELANIE TULLY MIKE RICHARD Rigar 5 (1964), FAULL HYAM McCULLY McCULLY HYAM Nu-Trends (1967) guitar vocals bass drums guitar | | | | | | +-)------------------+- - - - -+- - - - -+----------+--------+ | | | | | ELEPHANT (1969) McCULLY WORKSHOP #1 (1969) This line-up recorded the | |-------------------- --------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - McCully Workshop Inc album | V| | | | | | | | | | | in 1969 (produced by Billy Forrest) which |RICHARD GEORGE SAVVY GLENDA TULLY MIKE IAN RICHARD ALLAN MELANIE ALAN featured the hit single | BLACK WOLFAARDT GRANDE WASMANN McCULLY McCULLY SMITH HYAM FAULL HYAM vd MERWE "Why Can't It Rain". | guitar bass drums vocals bass drums trumpet, guitar guitar vocals organ, | | | | | | | flute | (see below) vocals | | V V | +---------+--------+ +----------------------------------+ | | Abstract Suck (1970),| | | | | Truth Omega Ltd +---------)-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | (1970) (1975), | Glenda and Richard married and formed... | | | Razzle McCULLY WORKSHOP #2 (1971) PENDULUM (1972-1975) | | (1981) ------------------------------- Recorded Genesis ----------------------------------------- | | | | | | concept album | | | | then | Big hit in 1975 with | | BRUCE TULLY MIKE IAN GLENDA RICHARD RUSTY PAUL STEVE 'Take My Heart' based | | GORDON McCULLY McCULLY SMITH HYAM HYAM NORTHCOTE COETZEE POWDERLEY on Ketelbey's 'In A | | guitar bass, drums, trumpet, vocals guitar bass drums drums Persian Market'. | | | vocals vocals flute | | | Foggy Lane <-----+ | | | | | +-------------------------------------+---------+ +-----> Feedback +------>Went on to form Clout in 1977, | | divorced Richard, married | McCULLY WORKSHOP #3 (1975) Bernie Millar of Circus, | ------------------------------------------ Recorded Ages album sang with Juluka in 1983... | | | | | | in 1975 | RICHARD LEON TULLY MIKE RICHARD CROCODILE Robin "Crocodile Harris" | BLACK MORTON McCULLY McCULLY WILSON HARRIS Graham had a huge hit with | guitar keyboards bass, drums, violin, vocals the Mike & Tully McCully composition | | vocals vocals keyboards | 'Miss Eva Goodnight' in 1974. | | | | | | | +--------------------+---------+ +----------------------------------------------+ | | | | McCULLY WORKSHOP #4a (1977) WRIGHT BROTHERS (1977) Recorded the hit |Allan played on the ------------------------------- Recorded the classic ------------------- single 'Silverbird'. |first McCully Workshop | | | | single 'Buccaneer' and | | |album in 1969 RICHARD TULLY MIKE RUPERT the Workshop Revisited RICHARD CROCODILE |(see above) BLACK McCULLY McCULLY MELLOR album in 1977 WILSON HARRIS | guitar bass, drums, keyboards <-+ keyboards vocals | see vocals vocals | | | | below | | V | | | | | BORSTAL +--The Difference (1966-67), +-----> Huge hit in 1982 with +----------------+ | | BOYS Hell's Disciples, 'Give Me The Good News'. | | | see First Acquaintance (1968-71) WAKEFORD HART (1970) | | below originally formed in 1969 | | -------------------------------- | | | | | | | | PETER ALLAN PAT others| | WALES FAULL HUMPHREYS | | vocals, guitar drums | | keyboards | | | | | | | | | +----------+ +------------+ | Mike McCully has been involved in | | | various very successful projects: PETER WALE'S BARBER'S ASSASSIN | | The Sixty Something series, Station 70, a 1970 performance | | Beatlemania, Kings Of Rok, A Tribute To ----------------------- | | Bob Dylan and others... | | | | | PETER ALLAN others | | Rupert Mellor played the pub circuit around WALES FAULL | | South Africa. Toured with Jack Hammer. vocals, guitar | | keyboards | via the Square Set | | Richard Black was a founder member of Late Final, +-------------+ +----+ | has also done solo work and was involved with | | | Street Level Records with James Stewart. UNCLE EDWARD (1973) | | --------------------- | | | | | | | ALLAN NIELEN others | | FAULL MARAIS | | guitar vocals | | | | | | +---------+--------------+ | | +---+ FALLING MIRROR (1978-1979) | Falling Mirror had ------------------------------ | 4 successful albums: | | | | | Zen Boulders, ALLAN NIELEN PAT TULLY | The Storming Of The Loft, Fantasy Kid and FAULL MIRROR HUMPHREYS McCULLY| Johnny Calls The Chemist. guitar vocals drums bass | Shattered, a compilation album, was | | | | released in 1989 and on CD in 1992. +---------+ | | | | | +------+ | | | | | | +----------------------------+ | | | | | BORSTAL BOYS (1979) | | ------------------------------ | | | | | | | | KENNY RUPERT PETER TULLY | | HENSON MELLOR TAYLOR McCULLY | | guitars keyboards vocals bass | | see | | | below | | | | | +----------------+------------------+ | | | FALLING MIRROR (1980-1986) | --------------------- | | | | | ALLAN NIELEN TULLY | FAULL MIRROR McCULLY | Tully has produced albums for a guitar vocals drums, | variety of artists at his Spaced- | | bass | Out Sounds studio in Cape Town. | | | | David Kramer, Lesley Rae Dowling +---------+ | | and many others... | +-------------)---------------------+ | +-------------------+ | FALLING MIRROR (1992-93) | | --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | "In 1992-93 the band reformed and did quite a few ALLAN NIELEN TIM ALAN VIVIENNE JULES | | gigs in and around Cape Town." -- Alan Day, November 2005 FAULL MIRROR FAULL DAY McCULLAGH MEYER | | guitar vocals drums guitar keyboards bass | | | | | | +---------+-------------------------------------------)-+ | +-------------------+ | | FALLING MIRROR (1996) | Falling Mirror went into the studio --------------------- | in 1996 to record the | | | | Hammerhead Hotel album. ALLAN NIELEN TULLY | FAULL MIRROR McCULLY | guitar vocals drums, | | | bass | | | | | +----------+---------)---------+ | +-)--------------------+ | | | +---------------------------------+ | | | | | SIXTY SOMETHING (1994) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | MIKE DUCK LESLIE TIFFANY ANDY MARY-ANNE SHANNON VENESSA | | McCULLY CHOWLES KLEINSMITH GRIFFIN MURRAY RAY MOWDAY NOLAN | | drums vocals vocals vocals guitar bass sax keyboards | | | | | | | | +-----------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | | | | | SIXTY SOMETHING ELSE (1995) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | MIKE DUCK DENNIS TIFFANY ANDRE REGGIE JUDY VENESSA | | McCULLY CHOWLES BAKER GRIFFIN FOURIE EDWARDS BROWN NOLAN | | drums vocals vocals vocals guitar bass sax keyboards | | | | | | | | +----> died 21 March 2001 +-> Released stunning debut solo | +----------+-------------------+ album 'Burn' in 2001. | | | McCULLY WORKSHOP #4b (reformed in 1998) | - - - - - ------------------------------- - - - - - Reformed and re-recorded | | | | | | | some classic tracks and | ALLAN RICHARD TULLY MIKE RUPERT KEVIN some new ones. Buccaneer | FAULL BLACK McCULLY McCULLY MELLOR GIBSON CD released in 1998. | guitar guitar bass, drums, keyboards drums | | | vocals vocals | | | | | | | | | +------------+ | +---------)----------)--------+----------------+ | | | | | +-----------------)---------+-------------------)----------+ | | | | | | | | | | +------------)-----------------------------+ | | | | | | | FALLING MIRROR (28 December 2001) BLUESCREAM (2003) | | -------------- ---------------------------------------------- | | | | The duo reformed for a one-off gig | | | | | | ALLAN NIELEN at the Independent Armchair Theatre ROGER KEVIN TULLY ROBIN | | FAULL MIRROR in Cape Town. Some new material was KAYE GIBSON McCULLY GALLAGHER | | guitar vocals premiered alongside the old classics. vocals drums bass guitar | | | | +----)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - - - - - - -+ | | | | | STATION 70 (December 2003 - March 2004) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | MIKE JAMES JAMES JASON KARL FELICITY KATE LEE MARLENE SALLY ALISTAIR | McCULLY McCULLAGH DOBSON GUILE HERINGS B HAWKES PAVER HAY ROBINSON MOULTON BLACK | drums, guitar, keyboards, guitar, bass, vocals vocals vocals sax, vocals DJ, | vocals harmonica, vocals vocals vocals | piano vocals | | vocals | | | | | +-> Released solo hit 'Who You Trying To Be Cool For Baby' in January 2005, | | | written by James McCullagh, son of Mike McCully. +----+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ | McCULLY WORKSHOP #4c(2004-2005) Recorded 'Reaching For A Dream' in late 2004. ------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - Performed live in January and February 2005 | | | | | | to launch the 'Best Of McCully Workshop' CD. RICHARD TULLY MIKE RUPERT JASON ROBIN BLACK McCULLY McCULLY MELLOR GUILE GALLAGHER guitar bass, drums, keyboards, guitar, guitar vocals vocals vocals vocals vocals on 'Reaching (live) For A Dream'
©1999-2005 Brian Currin
Portions of this Family Tree were published in print form in the McCully Workshop Inc Korean CD re-issue, February 2003.