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Nude Records
Nude Records is an independent record label, established in August 1991 in London. The label was set up and operated by Saul Galpern, who had previously worked with artists such as Simply Red, The Fall, Julian Cope, The Triffids, The Slits and Au Pairs. The label filed for voluntary liquidation in December 2001, before it was re-established by Galpern in 2016. History The label's first success was with Suede, whose debut album, ''Suede'' (1993), debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, and was the fastest-selling debut album since Frankie Goes To Hollywood's ''Welcome to the Pleasuredome'' almost ten years earlier.Bella, Todd"Interview with Brett Anderson" '' The Argus''. 28 March 2007 The band went on to win the Mercury Prize that year, and received five Brit Awards nominations. They had three No. 1 hit albums in the UK Albums Chart. Other artists with chart success signed to the label included the Scottish band Geneva, who had Top 20 success with their debut album ''Furt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. It was created by Jon Webster and Robert Chandler in association with the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards. The prize was originally sponsored by Mercury Communications, a brand owned by Cable & Wireless, from which the prize gets its name. It was later sponsored by Technics (1998 to 2001), Panasonic (2002 and 2003), Nationwide Building Society (2004 to 2008) and Barclaycard (2009–14). The 2015 prize was sponsored by the BBC, while in 2016 it was announced that a three-year deal had been struck with Hyundai to sponsor the event. Any album released by a British or Irish artist, or by a band where over 50% of the members are British or Irish, may be submitted for consideration by their record label. Twelve submitted albums a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A New Morning
''A New Morning'' is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in September 2002. By the time the album was released, public interest in the band had waned, as shown by the poor charting of both the album and singles. Despite this, however, the album received moderate praise from critics. It is the only Suede album not to be released in the US. It was the last studio album released by the band before their seven-year hiatus and reunion in 2010. Before recording took place, keyboardist and guitarist Neil Codling left the band due to his health concern, and later was replaced by former Strangelove guitarist, Alex Lee. As Codling returned to the band for their 2010 reunion, this is their only studio album to have featured Lee. Background The creation of Suede's fifth studio album ''A New Morning'', was long and costly. Following the release of their 1999 album '' Head Music'' and subsequent tour, keyboardist Neil Codling announced his departure from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passionoia
''Passionoia'' is the third and final studio album by British pop band Black Box Recorder, released in 2003. Reception ''Passionoia'' was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on ten reviews. Track listing All songs written by Luke Haines and John Moore. # "The School Song" – 3:41 # "Gsoh Q.E.D." – 3:46 # "British Racing Green" – 4:34 # "Being Number One" – 3:26 # "The New Diana" – 2:49 # "These Are the Things" – 3:58 # "Andrew Ridgeley" – 3:47 # "When Britain Refused to Sing" – 3:14 # "Girl's Guide for the Modern Diva" – 4:09 # "I Ran All the Way Home" – 4:27 Personnel Personnel per booklet and sleeve. Black Box Recorder * John Moore – instruments * Sarah Nixey – vocals * Luke Haines Luke Michael Haines (born 7 October 1967) is an English musician, songwriter and aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zomba Group Of Companies
The Zomba Group of Companies (sometimes referred to as Zomba Music Group or just Zomba Group) was a music group and division owned by and operated under Sony Music Entertainment. The division was renamed to Jive Label Group in 2009 and was placed under the RCA/Jive Label Group umbrella. In 2011, the RCA/Jive Label Group was split in half. Multiple Jive Label Group artists were moved to Epic Records while others stayed with Jive as it moved under the RCA Music Group. In October 2011 Jive Records was shut down and their artists were moved to RCA Records. Founded independently in the mid-seventies by Clive Calder and Ralph Simon, the group has had interests in music release, distribution, production, publishing, equipment rental, recording studios, and artist management. Though the financial structure and annual revenue of Zomba during the company's independent period was only known to CEO Clive Calder (the company was registered privately offshore in the Dutch Antilles), Zomba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mackenzie
William MacArthur Mackenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive high tenor voice. He was the co-founder and lead vocalist of post-punk and new wave band the Associates. He also had a brief solo career releasing his debut studio album, ''Outernational'', in 1992, his only solo album released during his lifetime. Biography William MacArthur Mackenzie was born on 27 March 1957 in Dundee, Scotland. As a youngster, he lived on Park Avenue in the Stobswell area of the city. He attended St Mary's Forebank Primary School and St Michael's Secondary School. He led a peripatetic lifestyle, decamping to New Zealand at the age of 16, and travelling across America aged 17. Here he married Chloe Dummar, the sister-in-law of his Aunt Veronica. While MacKenzie was quoted as saying the marriage was made to stave off deportation so that he could sing with the New Orleans Gospel Choir – calling his wife a 'Dolly Parton type' – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowgold
Lowgold are an English indie rock band formed in 1997 in St Albans, comprising vocalist and rhythm guitarist Darren Ford, lead guitarist Dan Symons and bassist Miles Willey. The band originally claimed that the word "lowgold" was derived from a Nordic word, directly translated as "of hidden worth". However the band later admitted that it is just a word that Ford made up. History Army child Darren Lee Ford, born in Tidworth, Hampshire, spent much of his childhood travelling around Northern Ireland, Germany and England, where his father was stationed before attending boarding school near Dover and spent the previous 10 years before forming Lowgold on the dole and drumming in numerous bands such as The Knievels with his older brother Gary and Shinecello with Miles Willey on guitar as well as touring the stand-up comedy circuit for eight months. Fed up of backing others, he decided to begin singing his songs himself and recorded home demos on a four-track portastudio with friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultrasound (band)
Ultrasound are an English indie rock band. With roots in the British underground psychedelic and experimental rock scenes of the 1980s and early 1990s, the band emerged in 1997 and soon gained attention for their "operatic prog- glam ambitions" and "violent reworking of the idiosyncratic compositions of Captain Beefheart and the staged ambisexual pop idioms of the likes of Marc Bolan and David Bowie". All Music Guide biography of Ultrasound by Dean Carlson - retrieved 19 January 2009 Signing a high-profile deal with Nude Records at the tail-end of the Britpop era, the band released several well-received singles and were tagged as "another big, bright hope for British music" but split up acrimoniously in 1999 following the release of their debut album ''Everything Picture''. Reuniting in early 2010, Ultrasound have gone on to tour and to release two further albums. History Roots and origins (Possession, Step-TLV, Sleepy People and Pop-A-Cat-A-Petal - 1980-1995) Future Ultra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Facts Of Life (album)
''The Facts of Life'' is the second studio album by English indie rock band Black Box Recorder, released on 1 May 2000. Track listing All songs written by Luke Haines and John Moore. # "The Art of Driving" – 4:25 # "Weekend" – 2:27 # "The English Motorway System" – 4:40 # "May Queen" – 3:39 # "Sex Life" – 2:56 # "French Rock'N'Roll" – 3:01 # "The Facts of Life" – 4:37 # "Straight Life" – 4:09 # "Gift Horse" – 3:30 # "The Deverell Twins" – 2:43 # "Goodnight Kiss" – 3:45 Bonus tracks "Start as You Mean to Go On" – 2:30 "Brutality" – 2:19 Personnel ;Black Box Recorders *Sarah Nixey - vocals *John Moore - instruments *Luke Haines - instruments with: *Chris Wyles - additional drums on "The English Motorway System" and "May Queen" *Tim Weller - additional drums on "The Facts of Life", "Straight Life" and "The Deverell Twins" ;Technical *Pete Hofmann - engineer, mixing *Alasdair McLellan - model photography *Perou perou by frances, right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Box Recorder (band)
Black Box Recorder were an English indie rock band. They debuted in 1998 with '' England Made Me'' and followed this up with '' The Facts of Life'', which gave them their first hit with the single of the same name in April 2000. Their third album, ''Passionoia'', was released in 2003. There is also a compilation album, '' The Worst of Black Box Recorder'', a collection of B-sides, cover versions and remixes. Black Box Recorder consisted of Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines (of The Auteurs), and John Moore (formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain). Moore and Nixey married in 2001, and had one child. They divorced in 2006. Although no official announcement of the band's split was made, Black Box Recorder were on hiatus during the mid 2000s. The band collaborated with Art Brut during 2007, and released the single "Christmas Number One" under the name The Black Arts. In October 2008 the band played live at the Nick Sanderson tribute concert at the London Forum The O Forum Kentish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Further (Geneva Album)
''Further'' is the debut studio album by the Scottish indie rock band Geneva. It was released on 9 June 1997 and reached number twenty on the UK Albums Chart. ''Further'' includes the singles "No One Speaks", "Into the Blue", "Tranquillizer" and "Best Regrets". The band recorded the songs for album with Mike Hedges in between 1996 and 1997. Receiving positive reviews the album was originally released as a CD, Cassette and LP on 9 June 1997 by Nude Records. The artwork was designed by Struktur design with photography by Steve Niedorf and Harry Borden. Track listing All songs written by Andrew Montgomery and Steven Dora, except where noted. # "Temporary Wings" - 3:13 # "Into the Blue" (Montgomery, Stuart Evans, Keith Graham) - 3:24 # "The God of Sleep" - 3:05 # "Best Regrets" - 4:05 # "Tranquillizer" (Montgomery, Graham) - 3:31 # "Further" - 4:52 # "No One Speaks" - 3:35 # "Worry Beads" - 4:48 # "Fall Apart Button" (Montgomery, Graham) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva (band)
Geneva are a Scottish rock band formed in Aberdeen in 1992. The group enjoyed moderate chart success but split after the release of their second album. They reformed in 2018, minus guitarist Stuart Evans, in preparation for a live tour in 2019. Career The band were formed in 1992 by vocalist Andrew Montgomery and guitarist Steven Dora. They recruited second guitarist Stuart Evans, bass player Keith Graham and finally drummer Craig Brown. Craig was later replaced by Douglas Caskie. Originally the band were called Sunfish. One of their demos found their way to Suede’s record label, Nude, who signed the band in 1996. The band changed their name, originally to Garland, then later to Geneva, and released their debut single "No One Speaks" the same year. The band garnered enough press to headline ''NMEs annual Bratbus tour of up and coming bands in early 1997. The band released second single "Into the Blue" to coincide with the tour. Musical style The band fitted well with the curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
