Gloria Mundi was an early punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

/gothic rock

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 band. The name comes from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 for the glory of the world. This could be a reference to the phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi

Sic transit gloria mundi

Sic transit gloria mundi is a Latin phrase that means "Thus passes the glory of the world". It has been interpreted as "Worldly things are fleeting." It is possibly an adaptation of a phrase in Thomas à Kempis's 1418 work The Imitation of Christ: "O quam cito transit gloria mundi" .The phrase was...

" meaning "this is how the glory of the world passes".

The members of Gloria Mundi included Eddie Maelov (real name Eddie Francis), their male vocalist, and Sunshine Patteson (now working as Sunshine Gray), their female vocalist and keyboard player, cc played tenor saxophone

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

. A bassist known as Ice (real name Roland Oxland, a Dagenham native who had learned his craft in a band called "Yours" with Stevie Shears

Stevie Shears

Stevie Shears is a musician known for playing in english rock bands Tiger Lily and Ultravox! , alongside electronic musician John Foxx.-Tiger Lily and Ultravox!:...

 of Ultravox

Ultravox

Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....

 and Faith Global and John Clarke of "Daddio Clarke and the Macon Wailers") played on the I Individual record. When he left to form a band with Stevie Shears he was replaced by later bassist Nigel Ross Scott. The guitarist, known as 'Beethoven,' was Pete Vos , who later went on to have very limited success as a solo artist on RCA. The drummer was Mike Nicholls. Following the departure of Pete Vos, the guitarist Kirby, ex-Stretch, joined the band for a period and played on the second album 'The Word Is Out'.

After Gloria Mundi disbanded Eddie Maelov and Sunshine Patteson went on to produce music for Survival Records as Eddie and Sunshine

Eddie and Sunshine

Eddie and Sunshine were an electronic, cabaret duo of the early eighties, comprising Eddie Maelov and Sunshine Patteson , both previously founder members of the punk rock band Gloria Mundi....

. cc contributed a memorable saxophone solo to the Ultravox song "Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima mon amour is an acclaimed 1959 drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. It is the documentation of an intensely personal conversation between a French-Japanese couple about memory and forgetfulness...

", and Nigel Ross Scott went on to play bass with Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club and Re-Flex

Re-Flex

Re-Flex were a British New Wave/synthpop band active from 1981 to 1985. They are most often recognized for their hit, "The Politics of Dancing", the title track from their debut LP, as well as the singles "Hurt", "Hitline", "Couldn't Stand A Day", "Praying to the Beat", and...

, a 1980s pop

Pop music

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 group.

Singles

• 1978 "Fight Back" b/w "Do it" 7" PB 5068,
• 1978 "Glory of the World" b/w "Nothing to Say" 7" PB 5118,
• 1979 "YY?" b/w "Do you Believe?" 7" PB 5169,
• 1979 "Dangerous to Dream" b/w "Temporary Hell ( PART 2 )" 7" PB 5193,

Studio albums

• I Individual (1977 ) PL 25157,
• The Word is Out (1978) produced by John Punter
  John Punter
  John Punter is an English music producer and recording engineer. He has worked with many bands and musicians, such as Japan, Procol Harum, Roxy Music and Slade. His career in music spanned over 30 years and many different genres...
  
  PL 25244, cassette PK 25244
• Punk Collection Vol 2 RCA PLWL-1007

External links

• sunshine gray's website http://www.sunshinegray.co.uk
• Gloria Mundi
• Gloria Mundi - The Grotesque and the Grandiose
• http://www.myspace.com/sunshinegray
• http://www.myspace.com/gloriamundifansite