British Sea Power

British Sea Power is producing a band from the UK, the melodic guitar pop with experimental elements of post-punk, electro and krautrock. The musicians Yan Scott Wilkinson (vocals, guitar ), Martin Noble ( guitar, keyboards), Neil Hamilton Wilkinson ( bass, vocals, guitar), Matthew Wood (drums), Abi Fry (violin, keyboards) and Phil Sumner ( keyboards, guitar ) come from Cumbria, Yorkshire, Ealing and Shropshire. Long lived and worked for the band in Brighton. Today the musicians live in East Sussex and on the Scottish Isle of Skye.

Band History

The band is known for its spartan cover art depicting nature motifs such as bears schematically, and for their extravagant stage shows. In the early years, natural props were just as ambiguous helmets for stage decoration. Also known by the acronym BSP band was influenced among others by New Order / Joy Division, the Manic Street Preachers, New Model Army, and Echo and the Bunnymen and is therefore often musically associated with the so-called post-punk. As Joy Division plays British Sea Power with fascist symbols.

The early single Remember Me was performed in the British charts, but as a concept band, the majority of sales is on the album market since the debut of The Decline of British Sea Power (2003) have all albums reached the official UK charts. The most successful album of the six -piece band was the work of Do You Like Rock Music? , Which was placed 10th place in the British Top Ten in 2008.

In addition to the previous four regular studio albums British Sea Power, published in 2009, a movie soundtrack, which is a special feature. This is a newly set to music version of the documentary Man of Aran ( German Title: The Men of Aran ). This was the American Robert J. Flaherty turned on the Irish Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland in 1934. He has now been released in DVD form, including soundtrack CD. The musicians of British Sea Power had been alerted during a tour of the Republic of Ireland to the film. Among other things, at the Edinburgh Film Festival presented with live concerts film is now backed by experimental guitar pop. The inside cover of the published by Rough Trade Records soundtrack CD contains a quote from the guitarist Martin Noble: "We made ​​this soundtrack Because We liked the romantic notion of people living on the edge of existence It's something I'd like to think I. could do, but know I never will. " In the official UK sales charts for the soundtrack CD reached number 68

The end of 2010 the EP Zeus, in early 2011 the related, fifth album Valhalla Dancehall was first published at Rough Trade. After this album the band also began, their own label Golden Chariot to revive. On this label, the first single from Fear of Drowning had already been published in 2001. Since 2011, British Sea Power release on this label regularly new EPs with remixes and alternative versions, also here on EPs with live recordings of your own hospital in Brighton night club be sold.

On April 1, 2013, the band released the album on Rough Trade Machineries of Joy. The album brings together ten songs that had been introduced the year before at their own club nights in and demo versions on the accompanying EPs.

Literature & Film Music

In 2011, a novel was published about the history of the band in the publishing of the label Rough Trade with Do It for Your Mum. The author of this work is Roy Wilkinson. The brother of the band's founder Yan Scott Wilkinson and Neil Hamilton Wilkinson is known in England as an author and journalist, he wrote for many years for magazines and newspapers such as The Independent, The Guardian or Q. By 2005, Roy Wilkinson was the manager of British Sea Power.

After the critical and public alike acclaimed music for the documentary Man of Aran set, the band continued their work in the field of film music. In January 2013, the DVD was released the documentary From the Sea to the Land Beyond by director Penny Woolcock. For this documentary on the coastal landscape of the British Isles footage from 100 years was used, which comes from the archives of the British Film Institute ( BFI). The complete soundtrack to these images comes as already Aran by British Sea Power: Man of. In December 2013, the soundtrack to From the Sea to the Land Beyond was published in the combination CD DVD on the label Rough Trade.

Discography

Singles

  • Fear of Drowning, 2001
  • Remember Me, 2001
  • The Lonely 2002
  • Childhood Memories, 2002
  • Carrion / Apologies to Insect Life, 2003
  • Remember Me, 2003
  • A Lovely Day Tomorrow, 2004
  • It Ended on to Oily Stage, 2005
  • Please Stand Up, 2005
  • Remember Me / I Am A Cider Drinker ( with The Wurzels ), 2005
  • Waving Flags, 2008
  • Fear Of Drowning (Re-Release ), 2011
  • Who's in Control / Living Is So Easy, 2011
  • Georgie Ray / Mongk II, 2011
  • Facts Are Right, 2013

EPs

  • Remember Me, 2003
  • The Spirit Of St. Louis, 2004
  • Hospital?, 2007
  • Zeus, 2010
  • Valhalla Dancehall: Alternative Versions and Demos, 2011
  • Valhalla Dancehall: Remixes Water Tower, 2011
  • BSP EP 1 - EP BSP 6, 2012
  • RE JOYS, Machineries of Joy remix CD, 2013
  • MOJ bonus songs and old. Versions, 2013

Albums

  • The Decline of British Sea Power, 2003
  • Open Season, 2005
  • Do You Like Rock Music? , 2008
  • Man Of Aran (CD DVD ), 2009
  • Valhalla Dancehall, 2011
  • Machineries Of Joy, 2013
  • From The Sea To The Land Beyond (CD DVD), 2013

DVD

  • Man Of Aran, 2009
  • From The Sea To The Land Beyond, 2013
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