Cod Gave Rock and Rock and Roll To You
Long ago in the lost millenniums of Battercia a group of fish like musicians were making some random noises in the same place. Unknowingly they had invented "prog rock". Realising that they were the band Cod they instantly began recording concept albums .Epics such as “Rubbery Sole” Fish You Were Here “, “In Search Of Plaice”, “The Lady in Red Mullet “and “The Whitebait Album” flowed effortlessly from their majestic fins. In search of an audience, the musicians set sail across the treacherous Parallel Sea. All at once “Tragedy” by the Bee Gees struck their little vessel which capsized after being swamped by a disastrous “new wave”. All swam for their lives. Amongst the wreckage bobbed hundreds of unmarked white label tapes and LPs. Thus prog was cast adrift in the open sea with no copyright protection whatsoever and the fishy tales of Cod floated in to myth and legend. It would be many millennia before the intrepid band was finally re-united and the true origins of popular music were revealed.

The scene shifts a few thousand years to the summer of 1974 AD where Rick Wakeman’s spectacular "King Arthur on Ice" extravaganza is being performed at Wembley Arena. As massive stylophone vibrations disturb a section of the Earth'scrust and the last giant bouncy castle is removed, roadies and cleaning ladies alike are astounded to discover the long dormant remains of Brine Sturgeon and Bob Marlin suspended in the melting perma-frost beneath the stage. Unaltered except in age and appearance, the partially thawed members had suffered only minor physical deterioration, (mostly male pattern balding and middle-aged spread). Meanwhile the whereabouts of Roshti Von Sword Fischer, Dangerous Dave Blackfish and Hall Abbott remained a mystery.

Blindingly, fate was to lend a hand. After many years of aimlessly drifting guitar solos Marlin and Sturgeon had fetched up on the mythical Isle of Platts Eyot, home to the 500th incarnation of Hal Abbot. The virtuoso fresh water bass player immediately recognised the washed up musos as his old muckers from a previous life. Plied with alcohol and subjected to a series of exaggerated musical claims Hal was soon persuaded to join a resurgent Cod.

Incredibly, it was to be only a matter of days before Dangerous Dave Blackfish was again sighted. Listed “Missing” since the Cod Wars of the 1970’s he had been patrolling the murky depths of The Sea of Batter for many centuries but was easily tempted in to a large tank baited with tea and roll ups. Brine then made use of an astonishing device of the modern age called the “Dog and Bone" which could be used to contact people across the great divide. Using this new age miracle Quayboard maestro and multi- instrumentalist Roshti Von Sword Fischer was "given a bell" upon which he returned across the Sea Of Atlanticus and back in to the fold to complete the classic line up. In the words of Sword Fischer "the members of Cod (had finally) found their channels of destiny leading to their present incarnation of the 21st millennium to bring forth their mighty Codesque sonorities to its lightly dozing public"