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662:, it was given a limited UK cinema release, but Warner executives were reportedly dismayed by its avant-garde structure and the fact that the band don't even appear clearly until partway through the film. The audio recordings of the four songs featured in the film were also released on the "Shine So Hard" EP, which reached #37 on the UK singles chart, thus becoming the group's first British hit single. In 1982, the film was released as a limited edition of 500 VHS cassettes, redeemable only with a voucher given out to those who had attended the concert, and copies found their way onto the second-hand market. 153: 542:. Unlike the other band members, who were from working class Liverpool families, de Freitas was considered "posh" - he came from an affluent background, grew up in the south of England, and attended an elite private school. Despite his different background, the drummer's affable and outgoing manner was a welcome addition for his famously fractious bandmates. De Freitas met the trio at their September 15, 1979 gig at Eric's in Liverpool and immediately joined the band, but his October 12 live debut with them at London's 631:
pop-rock promotional clip, and it reflected their desire to capture Echo & the Bunnymen's live performance during this crucial breakthrough phase of their career. Butt was slated to direct, but British film union regulations at the time meant that the film would not be distributed commercially unless it was directed by a union member. Butt took over as producer, and on the recommendation of their mutual friend, Patrick Duval, Butt engaged novice filmmaker
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characters of the four band members, filming both the town and the musicians, but using unusual shooting angles and perspectives. This material was then assembled into an impressionistic sequence of seemingly disconnected images, which are gradually revealed to be a montage of the activities of the band members as they prepare for and head to the show.
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returned to America for more shows during October, and in November they made their only visit to Australia, including a show on November 11 at the Manly Vale Hotel on Sydney's northern beaches. This was recorded, and four tracks from that concert were subsequently included as bonus tracks on the 2003 CD reissue of the second album.
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Tomlinson, with multitrack audio recorded on the Manor Mobile studio by Peter Woods. The footage captures the band at the height of their early success, and documents both their musical prowess as a live act and the impressive staging and lighting designed by Bill Butt. The set list was drawn mainly from
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I think it's pretty obvious what I think. Noel Burke... the name says it all really doesn't it? No, that's not fair. It wasn't his fault, it was Will and Pete who were the berks really. But no, I thought it was disgraceful and after that I suppose it was quite surprising that I continued working with
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The band kicked off a hectic year of touring in 1984 with their first dates in Japan, in January, followed by a month-long round of dates in the United States beginning in March. April-May saw them playing concerts in Europe and the UK, followed by the second and more extensive leg of their U.S. tour
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in South Wales on a day off from recording. According to photographer Brian Griffin, they had to use buckets of fish offal to entice the seagulls to fly through the shot. Manager Bill Drummond and Korova label head, Rob Dickins, reportedly hated the image and Atkins, Griffin and the band had to fight
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Although inclement winter weather complicated the rehearsals, causing transport headaches for the band, as well as for their fans, the concert went ahead as planned, with the band taking the stage 30 minutes after the scheduled start time. The performance was filmed by Smith, Duval and cameraman Mike
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being "Read It in Books" (also recorded by the Teardrop Explodes approximately six months later as the B-side of their final Zoo Records single "Treason"). Though credited as a McCulloch/Cope collaboration, McCulloch has denied on more than one occasion that Cope had any involvement with its writing.
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1985/86 proved to be the turning point in the group's career. During their regular winter break, drummer Pete de Freitas had moved to America with a loose group of musical colleagues, friends and hangers-on dubbed The Sex Gods, but the other Bunnymen and his family later revealed that de Freitas was
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Beginning in April 1981, the band commenced another round of touring to promote the forthcoming album. This included their first American dates in New York, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After another round of shows in the UK and Europe mid-year, they
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launched plans for a one-off promotional concert event as the final date of the Camo tour, which would be professionally filmed and recorded. It was primarily intended to provide material for the group's first music video, but Drummond and Butt's vision went well beyond the conventional three-minute
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After extensive consultation with their clients, Smith and Duval were "embedded" in Buxton with the band in the week leading up to the concert, and they were given a completely free hand to structure, shoot and edit the project. Smith and Duval shaped the first part of the film around the differing
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in August-September 1987, followed by a UK tour in the northern autumn. After a winter break they undertook another round of touring in the U.S. and the UK, to general acclaim, but the March 1988 single release of their cover of the Doors' "People Are Strange" drew withering reviews from the music
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to add strings. During this period, tensions within the band had increased dramatically. Bassist Les Pattinson was openly expressing his weariness with the industry, and personal relations among the four deteriorated to the point that they either refused to speak to each other or argued when they
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in Derbyshire before a specially invited audience. Before the show, advertisements had been placed in the music press, and 500 lucky fans who responded were given free passes and a map directing them to the secret location (called "Gomorrah" in the advertisement), which also advised "BE PREPARED:
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Their plans were thrown into disarray when Pete de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident on 14 June 1989. De Freitas was on his way to Liverpool from London to take part in the group's first rehearsal with Burke, when his Ducati motorbike collided with another vehicle on the A51 At Longdon
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Months of speculation finally ended in September 1988 when McCulloch officially informed the other members that he was leaving the band, but Sergeant told McCulloch that he, Pattinson and de Freitas would continue working together. McCulloch departed, and later began work on his first solo album
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featured an atmospheric cover image, which showed the band posed in a mysterious woodland setting, lit by hidden coloured lights. Designed by Martyn Atkins and photographed by Brian Griffin, it became the first in a coordinated series of elemental-themed album covers by Atkins and Griffin, which
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The end of the original Echo & The Bunnymen came in March 1988. Following a Japanese tour, McCulloch announced that the band was breaking up. He hastily departed for the UK to see his father, who had just suffered two heart attacks, but he died before McCulloch arrived.
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after previously engineering early Bunnymen albums. Since August 2009 the group's touring incarnation has comprised McCulloch and Sergeant along with Stephen Brannan (bass), Gordy Goudie (guitar), Nicholas Kilroe (drums) and Jez Wing (keyboards).
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award. The award is for inspiring "new generations of musicians, songs and music lovers in general." The band were said to be worthy winners as they have done much to promote the Mersey music scene. In a later interview for
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On 1 September 2009, former keyboard player Jake Brockman died on the Isle of Man when his motorbike collided with a converted ambulance. Brockman had played keyboards for the band during the 1980s.
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as the title of the new Echo & the Bunnymen album with producers John McLaughlin and Simon Perry, which was originally due to be released in 2008 but was finally released on 12 October 2009. "
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magazine, McCulloch said "It validates everything that we've tried to achieve—cool, great timeless music. It's not like an inspiration award affecting the past, it's affecting the current music."
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We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like the Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.
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was rejected by Warner Bros as "too uncommercial", so (over Sergeant's objections) the band agreed to re-record the entire LP, and Drummond brought in noted Indian violinist and composer
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Although the album was a significant commercial success, it received mixed reviews from critics, and was disliked by the band, who were sharply critical of the mixing and production.
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suffering from escalating mental health and drug problems, and following a New Year's Eve drug binge in New Orleans, de Freitas announced that he had quit the band.
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Show on August 22, at which time they were still using a drum machine. This was the first of six live sets they would cut for the Peel show between 1979 and 1983.
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in Los Angeles on September 9. The band then immediately undertook an intensive two-month UK tour, beginning in Dublin on September 15 and concluding at London's
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In March 2007, the Bunnymen announced that they had re-signed to Warner and were working on a new album. The band were said to be planning a live DVD, titled
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did. McCulloch later described the band's mood at this time as "horrible", and de Freitas stated that, in stark contrast to the quick and confident making of
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Green in Staffordshire, killing him instantly. He was 27 years old and was survived by his widow and their infant daughter, who was born in 1988.
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spanned their first four LPs, each depicting the band posed at some distance from the camera, in a visually striking natural setting -- a forest (
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After another break over the winter, the band played three UK dates in April 1982. In June, they achieved their first top 20 UK hit single with "
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In 2018, Echo & the Bunnymen announced and released an album of reworked orchestral versions of older material and two new songs, titled
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band line up was Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Paul Fleming (keyboards), Simon Finley (drums) and Pete Wilkinson (bass), Hugh Jones produced
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THIS IS AN ATLAS ADVENTURE". For an additional fee of £5, coach transport was provided for fans from London, Liverpool and other cities.
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The finished 33-minute short film combined Smith and Duval's opening montage with dynamic footage of four songs from the show. Titled
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as their new drummer, but he did not fit in, and left after their Spring 1986 American tour. Cunningham was replaced by former
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Echo & the Bunnymen resumed work with a tour of Scandinavia in April 1985, performing cover versions of songs from
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Much of 1982 was taken with the difficult and protracted process of recording of their highly anticipated third album
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singer Oscar Askin, both auditioned but ultimately turned down offers to take over from McCulloch. Keyboardist
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Will after that. I'm glad I did though. Johnny Marr called them Echo and the Bogusmen when that happened.
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Following a PR campaign that proclaimed it "the greatest album ever made" according to McCulloch, 1984's
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After two more unsuccessful singles, which were released independently, the Bunnymen disbanded in 1993.
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in 1981, the band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in the UK in 1983 when they scored a
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of the Teardrop Explodes) broke into the Top 20, reaching No. 17, and garnered wide critical acclaim.
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With the group now gaining wider attention, they were invited to record a four-song set for the BBC'S
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drummer David Palmer. The group began recording material for the new album with Broudie and producer
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The concert was staged on January 17, 1981, in the striking Victorian-era glass concert hall in the
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The band embarked on their first major concert tour between September and December 1980 to promote
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reached No. 4, and today is widely regarded as the band's landmark album. Single extracts "
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Echo & the Bunnymen returned to the studio to record more material with a new producer,
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in September. He went on to say that the album was "the best one we've made, apart from
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On 11 September 2006, Echo & the Bunnymen released an updated version of their 1985
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on August 24, and their 1982 touring schedule concluded with four UK dates in December.
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In December 2010, Echo & the Bunnymen went on tour playing their first two albums
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to replace de Freitas, the new five-piece Bunnymen recorded the psychedelic-tinged
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festival, where they were joined onstage for the song "All My Colours (Zimbo)" by
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in September 1989, shortly after de Freitas' death. His follow-up solo album was
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proved difficult to follow up, and their only releases in 1985 were the single, "
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soundtrack, which featured a guest appearance by original Doors keyboard player
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In the United States, the band's best-known songs were "The Killing Moon" and "
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With tour commitments looming, the remaining members hastily recruited former
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in Wales during March, and was released in May 1981. Produced by the band and
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In 1994, McCulloch and Sergeant began working together again under the name
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In November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's
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Gordy Goudie – rhythm guitar (2004–2017) on "The Fountain" album and tour
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but they were unhappy with the results and the recordings were shelved.
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during August-September, concluding with a show at the famed
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in 1987, McCulloch left the band and was replaced by singer
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in 1990 with renowned former Beatles engineer and producer
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In September 2023, a four-date tour saw the group perform
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Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo and the Bunnymen
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in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist
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Will Sergeant (left) and Ian McCulloch (right) at the Frequenze Disturbate Festival in August 2005
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