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Stevie Jackson
Stephen Thomas Jackson (born 16 January 1969) is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle and Sebastian. Career Jackson's early musical influences include Madness, ABBA, OMD, Depeche Mode and ABC, with his first album purchase being The Police's ''Reggatta de Blanc'' (1979). Prior to joining Belle & Sebastian, he was a member of the Moondials, a band that released a single on Electric Honey, a label that would later issue Belle & Sebastian's first album, '' Tigermilk''. The Moondials experience was a pleasant one for Jackson, and it took a great deal of work for nominal Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch to convince him to join his group. At the time, Murdoch was playing the open mic circuit in Glasgow as a solo act, and it was at one of these performances, at The Halt Bar, that Jackson first saw Murdoch play. In the beginning, Belle & Sebastian existed mostly as an outlet for Murdoch's songwriting. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskine, Renfrewshire
Erskine (, , ) is a town in the council areas of Scotland, council area of Renfrewshire, and Renfrewshire (historic), historic county of counties of Scotland, the same name, situated in the Central Lowlands, West Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the southern bank of the River Clyde, providing the lowest crossing to the north bank of the river at the Erskine Bridge, connecting the town to Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire. Erskine is a commuter town at the western extent of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, bordering Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Bishopton to the west and Renfrew, Inchinnan, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley and Glasgow Airport to the south. Originally a small village settlement, the town has expanded since the 1960s as the site of development as an Overspill estate, overspill town, boosting the population to over 15,000. In 2014, it was rated one of the most attractive postcode areas to live in Scotland. History Archaeological evidence states that agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Police
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Within a few months of their first gig, the line-up settled as Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar, primary songwriter), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion), and this remained unchanged for the rest of the band's history. The Police became globally popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Emerging in the British new wave scene, they played a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. Their 1978 debut album, '' Outlandos d'Amour'', reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and contains the singles " Roxanne" and " Can't Stand Losing You". Their second album, '' Reggatta de Blanc'' (1979), became the first of four consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the UK and Australia; its first two singles, " Message in a Bottle" and " Walking on the Moon", became their first UK number-one singles. Their next two albums, '' Zenyatta Mondatta'' (1980) and '' Ghost in the Machine'' (1981), led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle & Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band has released twelve studio albums. They are often compared with acts such as the Smiths and Nick Drake. The band took their name from the 1965 television series '' Belle and Sebastian''. History Formation, early years and ''Tigermilk'' (1994–1996) In 1994, Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David both enrolled at Stow College's Beatbox programme for unemployed musicians in Glasgow. Together, with music professor Alan Rankine (formerly of the Associates), they recorded some demos, which in 1996 were picked up by the college's Music Business course that produces and releases one single each year on the college's label, Electric Honey. As Murdoch had a number of songs already and the label was extremely impressed with the demos, he was granted permission to record a full-length album, which was recorded mostly live over three days, entitled '' Tigermilk''. Murdoch and Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Moller
Roy Moller is a Scottish singer, songwriter and poet. He was born in Edinburgh in 1963; his parents were from Toronto in Canada, and he was adopted soon after birth. His early musical influences included Elvis Presley, Joy Division, The Fall, Ivor Cutler and David Bowie. He attended Trinity Academy, then moved to Glasgow where he studied English at the University of Strathclyde. While there, he won the Keith Wright Poetry Competition. Moller played in bands including Meth O.D. and The Wow Kafe. His first solo work was 2003's "Maximum Smile". He has collaborated with Stevie Jackson from Belle and Sebastian in a band called the Store Keys. He played with Davy Henderson in the band Jesus, Baby! When Marc Riley interviewed him on BBC Radio in 2011, he called Moller "Scotland's best-kept secret". In 2008, Moller had a son with wife Emma, named Peter. In 2013, Moller moved to Dunbar. In 2014 he took ''My Week Beats Your Year'', his musical tribute to Lou Reed, to the Edinburgh Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFMU
WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial educational station, non-commercial, listener-supported, independent radio, independent community radio station city of license, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free form radio, free-form radio format. The station holds periodic on-air fundraisers and seeks donation on its website. WFMU is a list of broadcast station classes, Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,250 watts. The station's transmitter is on Prospect Avenue and Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange, New Jersey, West Orange. Programming is also heard on 10-watt FM translator W220EJ at 91.9 FM in Weehawken. The lower Catskill Mountains, Catskills, parts of Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania can receive sister station WMFU's simulcast on 90.1 MHz, licensed to Mount Hope, New York, with its transmitter in Otisville, New York, Otisville. That station also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Your Baby
"Rock Your Baby" is the debut single by American singer George McCrae. Written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band, "Rock Your Baby" became an early landmark recording of disco. It was the only international hit for McCrae. The song spent two weeks at number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in July 1974, and three weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart that same month. The song also topped the ''Billboard'' R&B chart. The single has sold over 11 million copies, making it one of fewer than forty singles to have sold 10 million physical copies worldwide. Composition The backing track was recorded in 45 minutes as a demo, with Casey on keyboards, Finch on bass guitar and drums, and their fellow Sunshine Band member Jerome Smith on electric guitar. The song became one of the first pop hits to use a drum machine. The track was not originally intended for McCrae, but he happened to be in the studio at the time and added his dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCrae
George Warren McCrae Jr. (born October 19, 1944) is an American soul and disco singer who is most famous for his 1974 hit " Rock Your Baby". Biography and career McCrae was the second of nine children, born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He formed his own singing group, the Jivin' Jets, before joining the United States Navy in 1963. He married Gwen McCrae (née Mosley) in 1963. Four years later, he re-formed the group, with his wife Gwen joining the lineup, but soon afterwards they decided to work as a duo, recording for Henry Stone's Alston record label. Gwen then won a solo contract, with George acting as her manager as well as doing some singing on sessions and in clubs in Palm Beach. He was about to return to college to study law enforcement, when Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded for the band, but could not reach the high notes that were required for the song. The origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Pursuit
''The Life Pursuit'' is the seventh studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian. It was released in Europe on 6 February 2006 by Rough Trade Records and in North America on 7 February 2006 by Matador Records. The models on the album cover are Alex Klobouk, Natasha Noramly, and Marisa Privitera. Release and reception The album earned the band its most successful chart performance yet, reaching #8 in the UK Album Chart and #65 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States, selling 20,485 units in the first week. ''The Life Pursuit'' has been certified Silver in the UK. Lead single " Funny Little Frog" reached the top 20 of the UK Single Charts in January 2006, becoming the band's highest charting to date. " The Blues Are Still Blue" was released as the second single in April of that same year managing to peak inside the top 40. " White Collar Boy" was released as the last single in June peaking inside the top 50 of the same chart. "We Are the Sleepyheads" was used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan David (song)
"Jonathan David" is a song by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. The song gets its name from the bible, biblical duo of Jonathan and David, while B-side "The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner" is a reference to Alan Sillitoe's short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." The front cover features band members Mick Cooke (musician), Mick Cooke and Bobby Kildea with Gill Dodds. All three tracks from the single were later collected on the ''Push Barman to Open Old Wounds'' compilation. The title track was the band's first single to feature lead vocals from guitarist Stevie Jackson. Upon its release on 18 June 2001, the single reached number nine in Canada, number 31 in the United Kingdom, and number 46 in Sweden. Reception Online magazine ''PopMatters'' said the song "isn't just guitarist Stevie Jackson's most triumphant non-album contribution to the Belle and Sebastian canon, it might be the best example of what his songwriting is capable of. [It] impecc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy With The Arab Strap
''The Boy with the Arab Strap'' is the third studio album by Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, released in 1998 through Jeepster Records. Background and recording Belle and Sebastian released their second studio album '' If You're Feeling Sinister'' in November 1996, two months after signing to London-based label Jeepster Records. It was issued in the United States in early 1997; the choice to do this delayed the follow-up, with the band instead opting to release a trio of EPs – ''Dog on Wheels'', ''Lazy Line Painter Jane'' and '' 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light'' (all 1997). The EPs were successively climbing the UK chart while ''If You're Feeling Sinister'' was gaining traction at colleges in the US; the band performed in America for the first time at the CMJ Festival in late 1997.Thompson 2000, p. 184 Stuart Murdoch recalled the recording process for this album felt very different from the previous two. The group spent several months working on it versus the previous al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Murdoch (musician)
Stuart Lee Murdoch (born 25 August 1968) is a Scottish musician, writer and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the indie pop band Belle and Sebastian. Early life Murdoch attended Belmont Academy in Ayr from 1980-1985. Murdoch's parents made him take piano lessons during his childhood, and he claims not to have enjoyed them at the time but now "appreciates this decision vastly". Apart from early musical activities at secondary school (at age 12 he formed a band with fellow pupils, in which he played piano), Murdoch first became publicly involved in music as a radio DJ for Subcity Radio at the University of Glasgow. While at university at the end of the 1980s, he became ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, and was unable to work for seven years. Murdoch said that the isolation of these years led to his becoming a songwriter: "That was a big desert at the time, a kind of vacuum in my life. From that, these songs started coming out, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigermilk
''Tigermilk'' is the 1996 debut studio album from Scottish pop group Belle and Sebastian. Originally given a limited release (1,000 copies) by Electric Honey, the album was subsequently re-released in 1999 by Jeepster Records. The album is named after an instrumental that did not end up on the album — it was later performed on Belle and Sebastian's early tours. All of the songs on the album were written by Stuart Murdoch between 1993 and 1996, and originally performed solo on the Glasgow open mic circuit. Though he performs on the album, trumpet player Mick Cooke was not then an official member of the band. Recording and production Belle and Sebastian came together in Glasgow, Scotland in 1994 after vocalist Stuart Murdoch and bassist Stuart David met on a programme for unemployed musicians called Beatbox, funded by Stow College. In 1996, the pair reportedly enlisted the four five musicians they came across at a local café, settling on a line-up of Murdoch, David, guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
