Tony Friel (born 4 May 1958)
is an English bass guitarist, known for his role in different
new wave bands.
He attended Heys Boys Secondary School, where he met
Martin Bramah
Martin Beddington (born 18 September 1957 in Manchester),[The Fall online – biography](_blank)
and attained an art
O-Level. He and Bramah shared many interests. In the mid-1970s, they were introduced by their friend Barbara Smith to her brother
Mark E. Smith
Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall. Smith formed the band after attending the June 1976 Sex Pistol ...
and his friend
Una Baines
Una Baines (born April 1957) is best known as the keyboard (instrument), keyboard player in the first line-up of British Post punk, post-punk/New wave music, new wave band The Fall (band), the Fall. Her feminist viewpoint helped shape the band' ...
. Smith, Baines, Bramah and Friel shared interests in music, and formed their first band,
the Fall.
Friel remained until December 1977, then he left.
After the Fall, Friel formed a project called Contact and a band called
the Passage. In late 1978, he and his former Fall bandmate
Karl Burns
Karl Burns (born 19 March 1958) is a British musician best known as the drummer for The Fall, featuring in many incarnations of the band between 1977 and 1998.
Although several musicians have rejoined the Fall having previously left or been ...
joined
the Teardrops, a group which included
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Manchester in 1976. During their career, the band combined elements of punk rock, power pop, and pop punk. The ...
bassist
Steve Garvey
Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is an American former professional Major League Baseball player who played first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres from 1969 to 1987.
Garvey began his major league career wit ...
. They released the ''Leave Me No Choice'' EP, and in 1980, the ''Final Vinyl'' album, before breaking up.
In subsequent years Friel played with R&B bands. Later he was member of the Woodbank Streetband.
Discography
*''Bingo-Master's Break-Out'' – The Fall (1978)
*''New Love Songs'' 7-inch EP – Passage (Object Music, 1978)
*''Future'' 7-inch EP – Contact (Object Music, 1979)
See also
*
List of The Fall members
The Fall were an English post-punk band from Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Formed in late 1976, the group originally featured vocalist Mark E. Smith, guitarist Martin Bramah, bassist Tony Friel and keyboardist Una Baines, with their first ...
References
External links
The website of Tony Friel
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1958 births
English rock bass guitarists
British male bass guitarists
English rock guitarists
English male guitarists
The Fall (band) members
Musicians from Birkenhead
Living people