Balaam & The Angel

On March 24th 1986, BALAAM AND THE ANGEL released the single 'She Knows'. Mark Morris, Jim Morris and Des Morris - vocalist and bassist, guitarist, and drummer respectively. Moving south from Scotland to the English Midlands, they formed Balaam and the Angel in the early 80s, borrowing the name from the Old Testament story of the prophet whose donkey was made to speak by an angel - a piece of Biblical mysticism that fitted the brooding atmosphere they were constructing around themselves. Where many bands of the era applied gothic trappings like a coat of paint, the Morris brothers seemed to...