Lindisfarne (Band)

Lindisfarne is a company established in Newcastle in 1969 English folk rock band that was especially successful in the 1970s. Among her best known hits include Lady Eleanor, Meet Me on the Corner, Run for Home and Fog on the Tyne.

  • 3.1 albums
  • 3.2 Singles

Band History

1969 joined Simon Cowe, Rod Clements, Ray Jackson and Ray Laidlaw, all musicians with band experience, in north-east England Newcastle together and called themselves Brethren. Soon after, the singer and songwriter Alan Hull, who ran a folk club in Whitley Bay, this and already in the following year, she signed a recording contract with Charisma Records, and before the release of their debut album Nicely Out of Tune was from Alan Hull and Brethren, the band Lindisfarne. However, neither the album nor debut single Lady Eleanor sold particularly well.

Only through the subsequent tour they made england far a name and with the second album Fog on the Tyne, which has already appeared a year later, the success came rolling. It came straight into the UK charts, and after a few weeks drew a the debut album in the charts. This was followed in the spring of 1972, the extraction of Meet Me on the Corner. The single brought it up in the top 5 of the singles charts. Then the album Fog on the Tyne peaked at # 1 on the charts, where it stayed for four weeks. It was the best selling local album of the year in the UK. The re-release of Lady Eleanor Lindisfarne brought in the UK a third place and after a few appearances in the U.S., the song could also be placed there in the charts. The album Nicely Out of Tune managed in the course of success even up to position 8 in the UK.

The band had become very quickly a cult band and was compared with the greats. The third album in less than two years was Dingly Dell and was again very successful: it reached number 5 However, the musicians had it changed their sound: Dissatisfied with the production they had imposed their own arrangement, which was rougher and harder than the its predecessor. This earned them a bad record reviews. In addition, the large single hit was missing on the album, the decoupling All Fall Down made ​​it as a single straight as among the top 40

The break

Beginning of 1973 it came to breaking the band. Three members made ​​themselves constantly with another musician as a Jack the Lad. Alan Hull had a brief success with the solo album Pipedream before he left to live with Ray Jackson and four new members of Lindisfarne. In addition, the band moved to Warner. However, the new composition was not working and two more albums flopped. Thus came the renewed from two years later.

The reunification

However, Hull, Jackson, and the original three members had meanwhile again joined forces for three sold-out Christmas concerts in their homeland.

The three stepped out members who were able to record with Jack the Lad in the meantime, have had little success, returned in 1977 and it came back finally to the third edition of Lindisfarne, this time back to the original cast and this time at Mercury. It was followed by the album, Back & Forth, which could prompt able to return to the old successes. With Run for Home made ​​it again a single in the Top 10, even Juke Box Gypsy was also placed in the charts.

With the end of the 70s, it was over with the success of Lindisfarne. Although they gave further concerts and participated on albums, but the commercial success was no longer a. In 1982, they founded their own label LMP and reached one last time Sleepless Nights rear chart ranks in the album charts.

The late years

In 1990 followed the departure of Ray Jackson, who had been out of Hull is the only right from the beginning. But in the same year, the band had also once again a special success. Together with the soccer star Paul " Gazza " Gascoigne, who hails from the North of England and started his career at Newcastle United, they took the title song of their second album Fog on the Tyne scratch. Gazza had been at the World Cup 1990 in Italy, the hero of the England team. Along with it had Lindisfarne with space 2, the highest placement of the band in the singles charts.

As on November 17, 1995, the most important musicians of the band, Alan Hull, died unexpectedly, those who remained decided to keep going. They continue to give concerts and also took on albums, the last promenade, in 2002. November 1, 2003, she gave one last Lindisfarne concert in smaller ensembles under the name Lindisfarne Acoustic there on 17 May 2004 the final appearance by three band members.

From the quintet from the Lindisfarne last was, Denholm, Thomson and Clements still occur as The Ghosts of Electricity and Mitchell is traveling solo, while Laidlaw is a full change in the film and media industry.

Members

Founding members

  • Alan Hull ( born February 20, 1945, † 17 November 1995): vocals, guitar, and 1995
  • Simon Cowe ( born April 1, 1948): guitar, to 1973 and from 1977 to 1993
  • Rod Clements ( born November 17 1947): bass, violin, until 1973 and 1977-2003
  • Ray Laidlaw ( born May 28, 1948): drums, to 1973 and from 1977 to 2003
  • Ray Jackson ( born December 12, 1948): mandolin, harmonica, and 1990

Other members of

  • Kenny Craddock († 2002): keyboards, vocals, 1973-1975, 1993
  • Charlie Harcourt: Guitar, Keyboards, 1973-1975
  • Tommy Duffy: Bass, vocals, 1973-1975
  • Paul Nichols: drums, 1973-1975
  • Marty Craggs: saxophone, flute, accordion, 1984-2000
  • Steve Daggett, 1986-1989
  • Ian Thomson: Bass, 1993-2003
  • Dave Denholm: guitar, vocals 1993-2003
  • Billy Mitchell: vocals, guitar, 1995-2003

Discography

Albums

  • Nicely out of Tune (1970 )
  • Fog on the Tyne (1971 )
  • Dingly Dell (1972 )
  • Roll on Ruby ( 1973)
  • Lindisfarne Live (1973 )
  • Happy Daze (1974, U.S. only)
  • Finest Hour ( 1975 Best of )
  • Back and Fourth (1978 )
  • The News (1979 )
  • Sleepless Nights (1982 )
  • Dance Your Life Away (1986 )
  • Amigos (1989 )
  • Elvis Lives on the Moon (1993 )
  • Another Fine Mess (1995 )
  • Here Comes the Neighbourhood (1998)
  • Promenade ( 2002)

Singles

  • Lady Eleanor (1971 )
  • Meet Me on the Corner (1971 )
  • All Fall Down ( 1972)
  • Juke Box Gypsy ( 1978)
  • Run for Home (1978 )
  • Nights (1982)
  • Winning the Game (1983, only Germany )
  • Lady Eleanor '88 (1988 )
  • Fog on the Tyne ( Revisited ) as Gazza and Lindisfarne (1990 )

Solo Publications

Alan Hull

  • Pipedream (1973 )
  • Squire (1975 )
  • Phantoms (1979 )
  • Statues and Liberties (1996, posthumous)

Rod Clements

  • One Track Mind ( 1994)
  • Stamping Ground (2000)
  • Live Ghosts ( 2004)
  • Odd Man Out ( 2006)
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