Lester Square

Lester Square (born Thomas Hardy, 17 April 1954, Canada) is the former lead guitarist for The Monochrome Set. He joined the first incarnation of Adam and the Ants as lead guitarist ,[1][2] (and its earlier incarnation known as The B-Sides) after meeting Adam while studying at Hornsey College of Art, writing "Fall In" and "Fat Fun" during this period. He left in 1978 to form The Monochrome Set with singer-songwriter Bid, a band cited as[3] "a major influence on the Smiths, Franz Ferdinand, Orange Juice, Fire Engines and a whole host of UK indie and post punk bands." He has also briefly played guitar with The Invisible (1985–1987), ...And the Native Hipsters,[4] and Jesus Couldn't Drum.

For the London landmark, see Leicester Square.

Square has also composed music for dance performance, most notably Rhythm and Hues, a kinaesthetic exploration of 20th-century works of art in collaboration with the Tate Gallery and Helen McCookerybook. Also in collaboration with McCookerybook, he composed soundtrack music for the Channel 4 documentaries Pictures of Women and No-one Likes Us, We Don't Care, Akiko Hada and Wolfgang Müller's 1991 parable on the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Fall of a Queen, or the Taste of the Fruit to Come.

He has released Four solo albums since leaving The Monochrome Set: Carcass in 2017, Serotonin in 2018, Chautauqua in 2019 and Nuevo Laredo in 2020.

Since 2019, he has sat on the working group of Music Declares Emergency, a group of environmental activists founded by musicians and members of the wider music industry.

Discography

Studio albums with The Monochrome Set

  • Strange Boutique (1980, Dindisc)
  • Love Zombies (1980, Dindisc)
  • Eligible Bachelors (1982, Cherry Red)
  • Dante's Casino (1990, Vinyl Japan)
  • Jack (1991, Honeymoon)
  • Charade (1993, Cherry Red)
  • Misère (1994, Cherry Red)
  • Trinity Road (1995, Cherry Red)
  • Platinum Coils (2012, Disquo Bleu)
  • Super Plastic City (2013, Disquo Bleu)
  • Spaces Everywhere (2015, Tapete Records)

With The Invisible

  • Dystopia (1985, Midnight Music)

Extended plays with The Monochrome Set

  • I Love Lambeth (1995, Cherry Red)

With The Invisible

  • Love Street/Sunday/Twilight Zone (1986, Midnight Music)

Solo

  • The Plug/Gulp (1982, Thin Sliced Records)

Compilation albums

  • Volume, Contrast, Brilliance... (Sessions & Singles Vol. 1) (1983, Cherry Red)
  • Westminster Affair (Bande Originale Du Film) (1988, Él)
  • Colour Transmission (1988, Virgin)
  • What a Whopper! (1992, Richmond Records)
  • Tomorrow Will Be Too Long – The Best of The Monochrome Set (1995, Caroline Records)
  • Black & White Minstrels 1975–1979 (1995, Cherry Red)
  • Compendium 75–95 (1996, Cherry Red)
  • Chaps (1997, Recall 2 cd)
  • The Best of The Monochrome Set (2000, Cherry Red)
  • The Independent Singles Collection (2008, Cherry Red)
  • Early Recordings: 1975–1977 "White Noise" (2010, Captured Tracks)
  • Volume, Contrast, Brilliance (Unreleased & Rare, Vol. 2) (2016, Tapete)
  • The Monochrome Set - 1979-1985: Complete Recordings (Boxset) (2018, Tapete)
  • Little Noises (2020, Cherry Red)

Live albums

  • Fin (1986, Cherry Red )
  • Live (1993, Code 90)
  • M-80 (2013, Wienerworld)

Video albums

  • The Monochrome Set (2002, Classic Rock Productions)
  • Destiny Always Calls Twice (2006, Cherry Red Films)
  • M-80 (2013, Weinerworld)
  • Access All Areas (2015, Edsel)

Singles with The Monochrome Set

  • He's Frank/Alphaville (1979, Rough Trade)
  • He's Frank (Slight Return)/Silicon Carne/Fallout (1979, Rough Trade, Disquo Bleu)
  • The Monochrome Set/Mr. Bizarro (1979, Rough Trade)
  • Eine Symphonie des Grauens/Lester Leaps In (1979, Rough Trade)
  • 405 Lines/Goodbye Joe (1980, Dindisc)
  • The Strange Boutique/Surfing S.W.12 (1980, Dindisc)
  • Apocalypso/Fiasco Bongo (1980, Dindisc)
  • Ten Don'ts for Honeymooners/Straits of Malacca (1981, PRE Records)
  • The Mating Game/J.D.H.A.N.E.Y (1982, Cherry Red)
  • The Jet Set Junta/Love Goes Down the Drain/Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie) (1982, Cherry Red)
  • Killing Dave/House of God (live) (1991, Honeymoon)
  • Forever Young/Hurting You/Little Noises (1993, Cherry Red)
  • Waiting for Alberto/I Can’t Control My Feet (Lazy Perfection, 2012)

Solo Albums

  • Carcass (2017, Cubist records)
  • Serotonin (2018, Cubist records)
  • Chautauqua (2019, Cubist records)
  • Nuevo Laredo (2020, Cubist records)

Extended play

  • Cuts (with Craig Gannon) (2020, Cubist Records)

Singles

  • Ricochet (with Victory Through Sound) (2017, Cubist Records)
  • I Come and Stand at Every Door (with Tilly Robinson) (2020, Cubist Records)

As a guest

  • With The Native Hipsters: Going Steady with Larry and Emma (1983, Plattecop Volume)
  • Jesus Couldn’t Drum: Er…Something about Cows (1985, Lost Moment)
  • Jesus Couldn’t Drum: Good Morning Mr Square (1986, Lost Moment)
  • The Cat and Mouse Band: From the Caves of the Whistling Blue Fish monks (1987, Lost Moment)
  • The Wood-Be-Goods: Mondo (1992, Polystar)
  • Helen McCookerybook: Helen and the Horns Etc (2005, New Shore Records)
  • Helen McCookerybook: Suburban Pastoral (2006, Big Song)
  • Helen McCookerybook: Christmas Assortment (2007, Bendi Records)
  • The Native Hipsters: There Goes Concorde Again (2001, MRM)
  • Peat Moss: Moustache Vending Machine (2016, Red Velvet Records)
  • Wilding and Unwilding: Hard Noise to Scumrise (2020)
  • Miniatures (2020, The 62nd Gramophone Company)

Music used in Film and TV

  • Jim’ll Fix It (1980, BBC)
  • Pictures of Women (with Helen McCookerybook) (1984, Channel 4)
  • The Fall of a Queen (with Helen McCookerybook) (1993, Channel 4)
  • No-one Likes Us, We Don’t Care (with Helen McCookerybook) (2006, Channel 4)
  • Heroes, Original Soundtrack (2008, NBC)
  • Adam Ant: The Blue Black Hussar (2014, Sunrise Pictures)
  • The Story of London (2015, Demanddvd)
  • The Story of Royal London (2015, Demanddvd)
  • American Dad (2009, Fox)
  • Nish Kumar, Live at the Apollo (2020, BBC)

References
  1. "Lester Square – Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  2. Ankeny, Jason. "The Monochrome Set – Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  3. "Monochrome Set : Live Review". Louderthanwar.com. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  4. Kellman, Andy. "...And the Native Hipsters". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
Preceded by
founder guitarist		 The Ants lead guitarist
1977		 Succeeded by
Mark Ryan
Preceded by
founder guitarist		 The Monochrome Set lead guitarist
1978–1982		 Succeeded by
James "Foz" Foster
Preceded by
James "Foz" Foster		 The Monochrome Set lead guitarist
1990–1998, 2008, 2010–2014		 Succeeded by
Bid


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