Crocodiles

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a b Cranna, Ian (24 July – 6 August 1980). "Echo & the Bunnymen: Crocodiles". Smash Hits. Vol.2, no.15. p.29. In November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's Eric's Club, [12] appearing as the opening act for The Teardrop Explodes. The band played one song, a 20-minute version of "Monkeys" which was entitled "I Bagsy Yours" at the time. [13] In the book The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs, Bill Drummond says that he saw the face of "Echo", an imagined giant rabbit, in the cover design. [16] Releases [ edit ] Months of speculation finally ended in September 1988 when McCulloch officially informed the other members that he was leaving the band, but Sergeant told McCulloch that he, Pattinson and de Freitas would continue working together. McCulloch departed, and later began work on his first solo album Candleland.

Immediately before the release of the band's next album What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Les Pattinson quit to take care of his mother. [31] McCulloch and Sergeant have continued to tour and record as Echo & the Bunnymen, touring repeatedly and releasing the albums Flowers (2001), Siberia (2005), The Fountain (2009) and Meteorites (2014). The Siberia band line up was Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Paul Fleming (keyboards), Simon Finley (drums) and Pete Wilkinson (bass), Hugh Jones produced Siberia after previously engineering early Bunnymen albums. Since August 2009 the group's touring incarnation has comprised McCulloch and Sergeant along with Stephen Brannan (bass), Gordy Goudie (guitar), Nicholas Kilroe (drums) and Jez Wing (keyboards). On 11 January 2008, McCulloch was interviewed on BBC Breakfast at the start of Liverpool 08. He was asked about new Bunnymen material and he revealed that a new album would coincide with their gig at the Royal Albert Hall in September. He went on to say that the album was "The best one we've made, apart from Ocean Rain." Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 8): W-5 KD KODE 1 B-1 WITH FLOWERS A̶̷̲̅N̶̷̲̅D̶̷̲̅ IN THEIR HAIR ARUNMatrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 6 ("E" in KODE is just 3 parallel lines across an "A")): W-3 KOD̸E 1 B-1 WITH FLOWERS A̶̷̲̅N̶̷̲̅D̶̷̲̅ IИ THEIR HAIR ARUN The band embarked on their first major concert tour between September and December 1980 to promote Crocodiles, supported by London band The Sound, during which they performed their first European concerts in France, The Netherlands and Germany. The end of the Camo tour was followed by a four-month break, mainly dedicated to the preparation and recording of their second LP. Children Of Nuggets : Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996 V.A CD1 - CD2 (1) Echo & the Bunnymen’s 2014 release was produced by Youth, formerly of Killing Joke, who also plays bass, and Andrea Wright. Ian McCulloch wrote several of the songs on bass guitar; four of them were finished in a day.

Sergeant himself said: “We wanted classic sounds, sounds nobody else could get. I played guitar with a pair of scissors at one point, and I kind of banned cymbals.” In a 20 April 2008 interview with the Sunday Mail, Ian McCulloch announced The Fountain as the title of the new Echo & the Bunnymen album with producers John McLaughlin and Simon Perry, [37] which was originally due to be released in 2008 but was finally released on 12 October 2009. [38] " Think I Need It Too", the first single from the album, was released on 28 September 2009. a b Harrison, Andrew (2004). "Echo & the Bunnymen: (various reissues)". Blender. ISSN 1534-0554. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009 . Retrieved 5 May 2010.The Liverpool scene at the interface of the 70s and 80s was the proving ground for a trio of singers that are among the most mercurial ever to emerge from the Merseyside metropolis. Ian McCulloch, Julian Cope and Pete Wylie actually started out together as The Crucial Three in 1977, before Wylie quit (going on to The Mighty Wah!) and McCulloch and Cope went on to form A Shallow Madness, an early incarnation of The Teardrop Explodes. Schofield, Deborah (29 July 2002). "20 years on, it's still a Womad world". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 February 2023.

Matrix / Runout (Stamped & etched ("XX [D crossed] F") runout, side A - variant 4): R/S Alsdorf 58175 A4XX [D crossed] F In September 2023, a four-date tour saw the group perform Ocean Rain in full in the UK. [45] Members [ edit ] Current [ edit ] In 1994, McCulloch and Sergeant began working together again under the name Electrafixion; [13] in 1997 Pattinson rejoined the duo, meaning the three surviving members of the original Bunnymen line-up were now working together again. Rather than continue as Electrafixion, the trio resurrected the Echo & the Bunnymen name and released the album Evergreen (1997), which reached the UK Top 10.

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The band’s lighting engineer, Bill Butt, was delegated to direct. He wanted the video to reflect the frigid feel of the album and originally plumped for Scotland as the location, but the paucity of snow meant Reykjavik was the second choice. Barnett, Laura (8 January 2008). "Portrait of the artist: Ian McCulloch, singer". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 May 2008. Their 1980 debut album Crocodiles went into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart. After releasing their second album Heaven Up Here in 1981, the band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the UK in 1983 when they scored a UK Top 10 hit with " The Cutter", and the album which the song came from, Porcupine, hit number 2 in the UK. Ocean Rain (1984), continued the band's UK chart success with its lead single " The Killing Moon" entering into the top 10. [8] From Will Sergeant’s point of view, it was a trip to Russia “that fed into The Killing Moon”. He and Les Pattinson returned home inspired by balalaika bands, hence the “rumbling, mandolin-style bass thing” you can hear. Two singles were released before the album's release. "Pictures on My Wall" (as "The Pictures on My Wall"), the band's first single, was released on 5 May 1979. The single version was recorded before de Freitas had joined the band, but the song was re-recorded for the album with de Freitas on drums. [17] The band's second single, "Rescue", released on 5 May 1980, became the band's first song to chart when it reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart. [18]

A popular misconception is that the ‘Echo’ in Echo & The Bunnymen was the name of the drum machine used when they started out. Guitarist Will Sergeant explained: “We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men, or Glycerol And The Fan Extractors. Echo & The Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.” Meanwhile, McCulloch released his well-received debut solo album Candleland in September 1989, shortly after de Freitas' death. His follow-up solo album was Mysterio in 1992. Following a PR campaign that proclaimed it "the greatest album ever made" according to McCulloch, [25] 1984's Ocean Rain reached No.4, and today is widely regarded as the band's landmark album. [26] Single extracts " Silver" (UK No.30) and " Seven Seas" (UK No.16) consolidated the album's continued commercial success. In the same year, McCulloch had a minor solo hit with his cover version of the Kurt Weill standard " September Song". Crocodiles is the closest that the Bunnymen ever came to a "conventional" post-punk record. In particular, whereas the album repeatedly hints at the Neo-psychedelic ambitions that would soon dominate the band's sound, most of the record is far less lush than its successors. This is most obvious in Will Sergeant's guitar playing, which is more angular and less atmospheric than on subsequent releases. Crocodiles also places a stronger emphasis on Les Pattinson's pulsing bass and features a relatively straightforward production. As for the vocals, Ian McCulloch's wavering baritone is immediately identifiable for anyone familiar with the band. The only peculiarity here is a handful of energetic vocal melodies where McCulloch employs an unusually "shouty", punkish style. All things considered, nothing on Crocodiles is atypical enough to confuse newcomers in search of something resembling Ocean Rain, but the album clearly dates itself to the earliest years of the post-punk revolution. Endelman, Michael (5 March 2004). "Crocodiles". Entertainment Weekly. No.754 . Retrieved 5 May 2010.