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Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish
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band formed in
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in 1989. The group were founded by Norman Blake (vocals, guitar),
Raymond McGinley Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Glasgow in 1989. The group were founded by Norman Blake (Scottish musician), Norman Blake (vocals, guitar), Raymond McGinley (vocals, lead guitar) and Gerard Love (vocals, bass), al ...
(vocals, lead guitar) and Gerard Love (vocals, bass), all of whom shared lead vocals and songwriting duties until Love's departure in 2018. As of 2023, the band's lineup consists of Blake, McGinley,
Francis Macdonald Francis Macdonald (born 11 September 1970) is a Scottish drummer, composer, and manager. He is the drummer with Teenage Fanclub, and the manager of Camera Obscura and The Vaselines. He also composes music for film and television, and released an ...
(drums, vocals), Dave McGowan (bass, vocals) and
Euros Childs Euros Childs (; Welsh: ; born 16 April 1975) is a Welsh musician and songwriter, perhaps best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and—as of January 2019—the keyboardist for Teenage Fanclub. His sister, violinist Megan C ...
(keyboards, vocals). In concert the band usually alternate among its songwriters, giving equal playing time to each one's songs. Although often pegged as alternative rock, the group have incorporated a wide variety of elements from various music styles. Teenage Fanclub have had a succession of drummers, namely Francis Macdonald,
Brendan O'Hare Brendan O'Hare (born 16 January 1970) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, primarily known for being the drummer in the rock band Teenage Fanclub from 1989 until early 1994, and a member of and collaborator with Mogwai. Career O'Hare ...
and Paul Quinn. Keyboardist Finlay Macdonald (no relation) has also been a member. As of 2023, the band have released 12 studio albums and two
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s.


History

Teenage Fanclub emerged from the Glasgow
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scene. They formed following the break-up of The Boy Hairdressers, a band featuring Raymond McGinley, Norman Blake and Francis Macdonald. Following a brief period in which Blake was a member of BMX Bandits, the three former bandmates joined with Gerard Love to form Teenage Fanclub. Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album '' A Catholic Education'', released in 1990 on Paperhouse, is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of ''Everything Flows''. Mostly written by Blake and McGinley, the record included several songs originally intended for The Boy Hairdressers. After recording his drum parts, Macdonald left the band to resume his university studies. They re-recorded several songs with Macdonald's replacement,
Brendan O'Hare Brendan O'Hare (born 16 January 1970) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, primarily known for being the drummer in the rock band Teenage Fanclub from 1989 until early 1994, and a member of and collaborator with Mogwai. Career O'Hare ...
, because they weren't satisfied with the results of the original recording sessions, and because they wanted to involve O'Hare in the album. The band followed the album with the EP ''God Knows It's True'' before being signed by
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. '' The King'', their next album, was a semi-improvised collection recorded in a single day. Originally intended to be a very limited release, the record received critical reviews of its self-confessed shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of
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" Like a Virgin". Their next album, '' Bandwagonesque'', released on
Creation Records Creation Records Ltd. was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green, and Joe Foster. Its name came from the 1960s band The Creation, whom McGee greatly admired. The label ceased operations in 1999, although ...
in the UK and Geffen in the US, brought Teenage Fanclub a measure of commercial success. ''Bandwagonesque'' was more deliberately constructed, the hooks became stronger, the guitar riffs were brought under control, and the harmony vocals took shape. ''Bandwagonesque'' topped ''
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'' magazine's 1991 end-of-year poll for best album, beating
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's ''
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'', their Creation stablemates My Bloody Valentine's album ''
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'', and
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's '' Out of Time''. The subsequent, ''
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'', received mixed reviews on release. Brendan O'Hare left Teenage Fanclub during this period because of "musical differences", to be replaced by Paul Quinn (formerly of the
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). ''
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'', Teenage Fanclub's fifth album, was both a critical and commercial success in the UK, becoming their first top ten album. In the
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however the band failed to regain the ground that ''Thirteen'' had lost them. Around this time
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of labelmates
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in the UK after the demise of Creation, continued the sound of ''Songs from Northern Britain''. Francis Macdonald rejoined as the drummer in place of Quinn, who left the band after recording his parts for ''Howdy!'' and before its release due to personal difficulties within the band . Quinn went on to form
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. In 2002, they released ''
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'' with
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of
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. Their final release on a
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label, ''
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'', collected the Fanclub's best songs along with three new songs (one from each member). Their next album, ''
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'', was released on 2 May 2005, on the band's own ''PeMa'' label. ''Man-Made'' was recorded in Chicago in 2004, and produced by
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of
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. In 2006, the band held two special concerts (in London and Glasgow) playing their 1991 album '' Bandwagonesque'' in its entirety. The band began work on their ninth album in August 2008, booking an initial three weeks at Leeders Farm recording studio in Norfolk. The album was called ''
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'', the first to involve keyboardist Dave McGowan as a full-time member, and was released on the band's own ''PeMa'' label. It became available in Europe, Australasia and Japan on 31 May 2010, and was released by
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in North America on 8 June 2010. In May 2015, Teenage Fanclub supported the
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at a concert at
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. Their tenth album, ''
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'', was released on 9 September 2016. The story of Teenage Fanclub's early days features in the 2017 documentary ''
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''. In August 2018, the band issued new versions of their five
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era albums which had been remastered at
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. To celebrate the reissues, the band also announced Songs from Teenage Fanclub: The Creation Records Years, a four-city UK tour during late October to mid-November in which they would play three nights each in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London, with each night's setlist covering different periods of the Creation-era discography, and featuring former drummers Brendan O'Hare and Paul Quinn participating, in which both drummers would respectively perform the albums and B-sides they had originally recorded. These gigs would be Gerard Love's last with the group, as he separated from the band due to differences in opinion on their future touring plans, later revealed to be a reluctance to fly frequently around the world for live performances. After Love's departure,
Euros Childs Euros Childs (; Welsh: ; born 16 April 1975) is a Welsh musician and songwriter, perhaps best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and—as of January 2019—the keyboardist for Teenage Fanclub. His sister, violinist Megan C ...
joined the band on keyboards and vocals, with Dave McGowan switching over to bass and vocals. A new album with this line-up, titled '' Endless Arcade'', was recorded in early and late 2019. It was originally planned for release in October 2020 to coincide with a UK and Europe tour the following November and December. However, the tour was rescheduled for April and May 2021 due to the
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, and the album's release date would eventually be set for 5 March 2021. The album release date and tour would end up being rescheduled once again, with ''Endless Arcade'' coming out on 30 April 2021 and the tour dates postponed to September 2021 and April and May 2022. On 23 May 2023, Teenage Fanclub announced the September release of their twelfth album '' Nothing Lasts Forever''.


Other projects

Norman Blake formed the two-person band
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with
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. In 2012, Blake also formed a Canadian-based supergroup with
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and Mike Belitsky called The New Mendicants. Raymond McGinley joined Dave McGowan's folk group
Snowgoose Snowgoose is a Scottish, Glasgow-based folk rock band. The band was formed as a three-piece with Jim McCulloch (formerly of The Soup Dragons and BMX Bandits) on guitar, Dave McGowan on bass and Anna Sheard on vocals. Raymond McGinley (guitar, ...
, whose debut album ''Harmony Springs'' was released in 2012. After playing bass on Jonny's 2011 eponymous debut album, Dave McGowan became
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's touring bassist in 2011, and appeared on their 2015 album '' Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance''. On 3 November 2018, he became an official member of the band. Gerard Love released his solo album ''Electric Cables'' in 2012 using the alias Lightships. The album also featured instrumental contributions from Dave McGowan and former Teenage Fanclub drummer Brendan O'Hare. Francis Macdonald released an album of minimalist classical music, ''Music for String Quartet, Piano & Celeste'', in 2015. Macdonald played piano and celeste, with strings by members of the Scottish Ensemble. Paul Quinn released 3 self composed albums. North Pole on his own Bellbeat Music label. Go! Released on Re-Action Recordings and High 5. Quinn released a digital only release of Demos before deciding to call time on The Primary 5


Musical style and legacy

Their sound is reminiscent of
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n bands like
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and
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, and their seventies counterparts Big Star. Teenage Fanclub are influenced by
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and
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. They performed a cover of Orange Juice's " Rip It Up" with
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. In December 2010, at the ATP Bowlie 2 music festival, they performed as the backing band for Edwyn Collins. Their musical style has been described as
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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(early). Teenage Fanclub were regularly name-checked in interviews by
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, who described them as "the best band in the world". The band would support Nirvana on tour in the summer of 1992.
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covered the song "Cells" on her 2012 self-titled album.


Members


Current members

*Norman Blake – co-lead vocals, guitar (1989–present) *Raymond McGinley – co-lead vocals, guitar (1989–present) *Francis Macdonald – drums (1989, 2000–present), backing vocals (2000–present) *Dave McGowan – keyboards, programming, guitar (2004–2018); bass, backing vocals (2019–present) *Euros Childs – keyboards, programming, backing vocals (2019–present)


Former members

*Gerard Love – co-lead vocals, bass (1989–2018) *Brendan O'Hare – drums, backing vocals (1989–1994, 2018 live shows) *Paul Quinn – drums (1994–2000, 2018 live shows) *Finlay Macdonald – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, bass, programming (1997–2001)


Timeline

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Discography

Studio albums *'' A Catholic Education'' (1990) *'' The King'' (1991) *'' Bandwagonesque'' (1991) *''
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'' (1993) *''
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'' (1995) *'' Songs from Northern Britain'' (1997) *'' Howdy!'' (2000) *''
Words of Wisdom and Hope ''Words of Wisdom and Hope'' is an album produced in collaboration between Glasgow, Scotland's Teenage Fanclub and Half Japanese frontman Jad Fair. It was released on 4 March 2002 on Domino's subsidiary label Geographic in Europe and on Alterna ...
'' with Jad Fair (2002) *''
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'' (2005) *''
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'' (2010) *''
Here Here may refer to: Music * ''Here'' (Adrian Belew album), 1994 * ''Here'' (Alicia Keys album), 2016 * ''Here'' (Cal Tjader album), 1979 * ''Here'' (Edward Sharpe album), 2012 * ''Here'' (Idina Menzel album), 2004 * ''Here'' (Merzbow album), ...
'' (2016) *'' Endless Arcade'' (2021) *'' Nothing Lasts Forever'' (2023)


References


External links

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