Superficially at least, Ghost Of The Machine would appear to be born from adversity. Five of the band were the musicians behind This Winter Machine – an act who were garnering both attention and substantial momentum. Back in 2020, the quintet departed, leaving that band’s singer Al Winter to reform with a fresh line-up. So, the obvious question is: who fired who?
“In a nutshell, there was an illness within the camp and he took about six months off from rehearsals and shows to get himself right,” says drummer Andy Milner. “In that time, the rest of us wrote music and we shot ideas about. When we were all back together again, it was a different musical direction than was agreeable. It was as simple as that, really. It was like, ‘Well, that isn’t going to work, is it?’ So we left.
