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Gareth Russell (musician)
Gareth Russell is a Scottish musician, best known as the former bass guitarist for the indie rock band Idlewild (band), Idlewild. Russell joined the band in 2006, following the departure of Gavin Fox (musician), Gavin Fox, and recorded two studio albums with the band: ''Make Another World'' (2007) and ''Post Electric Blues'' (2009). Russell also performed in Astrid (band), Astrid until their split, and was also a member of The Reindeer Section. Discography with Idlewild * 2007: ''Make Another World'' * 2009: ''Post Electric Blues'' with Astrid * 1999: ''Strange Weather Lately (album), Strange Weather Lately'' * 2001: ''Play Dead (Astrid album), Play Dead'' * 2004: ''One in Four'' with The Reindeer Section * 2001: ''Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!'' References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottish bass guitarists {{UK-bass-guitarist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Lewis
The Isle of Lewis ( gd, Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis ( gd, Leòdhas, ) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands. The total area of Lewis is . Lewis is, in general, the lower-lying part of the island: the other part, Harris, is more mountainous. Due to its larger area and flatter, more fertile land, Lewis contains three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles, and the largest settlement, Stornoway. The island's diverse habitats are home to an assortment of flora and fauna, such as the golden eagle, red deer and seal, and are recognised in a number of conservation areas. Lewis has a Presbyterian tradition and a rich history. It was once part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles. Today, life is very different from elsewhere in Scotland, with Sabbath observance, the Scottish Gaelic language and peat cutting retainin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Fox (musician)
Gavin Bernard Fox is bass player with the band Concerto for Constantine. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he has also been in the band Vega4 Vega4 was a four-piece alternative rock band formed in London consisted of Johnny McDaid (lead vocalist and songwriter), Bruce Gainsford (guitar), Gavin Fox (bassist) and Bryan McLellan (drummer). McDaid is from Northern Ireland and Fox is fro ..., Scottish rock band Idlewild, and Irish indie rock bands Turn and Little Matador. He now plays in Dublin indie band Sack. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish bass guitarists Musicians from County Dublin {{Ireland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!
''Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!'' is the debut album by the Scottish indie rock supergroup The Reindeer Section, released on 30 October 2001. The album was recorded over a ten-day period between January and February 2001. The core band throughout the album consists of vocalist/guitarist Gary Lightbody, drummer Jonny Quinn, guitarist/harmony vocalist William Campbell, acoustic guitarist/harmony vocalist Charles Clark, bassist Gareth Russell, and violinist/vocalist Jenny Reeve with various musicians joining in on a number of tracks - with everyone considered a member in keeping with the collective spirit. Members of Snow Patrol, Mogwai, Astrid, Belle and Sebastian, Arab Strap and Eva appear on this album. Track listing # "Will You Please Be There for Me" – 1:49 # "The Opening Taste" – 2:29 # "12 Hours It Takes Sometimes" – 3:47 # "Deviance" – 1:53 # "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" – 4:00 # "Fire Bell" – 1:41 # "If Everything Fell Quiet" – 2:18 # "I've Neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play Dead (Astrid Album)
''Play Dead'' is the second album by Scottish guitar-pop fourpiece Astrid Astrid is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, a modern form of the name Ástríðr. Derived from the Old Norse Ássfriðr, a compound name composed of the elements (a god) and (beautiful, fair). Variants * Assan (diminutive) (Swed .... Track listing #"It Never Happened" – 2:27 #"Tick Tock" – 3:17 #"Wrong for You" – 3:36 #"Crying Boy" – 2:57 #"Alas" – 3:12 #"Play Dead" – 2:44 #"Fat Girl" – 2:37 #"Just One Name" – 4:21 #"Hard to Be a Person" – 2:18 #"Paper" – 3:12 #"Modes of Transport" – 3:05 #"What You're Thinking" – 2:21 #"Taken for Granted" – 3:16 #"Horror Movies" + "We'll Drive Away" (hidden track) – 6:46 References External links ''NME'' review 2001 albums Astrid (band) albums Fantastic Plastic Records albums {{2000s-pop-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Weather Lately (album)
''Strange Weather Lately'' is the first album by Scottish guitar-pop fourpiece Astrid. The title originated from the comics and graphic novel series '' Strange Weather Lately'' (1996-1999) by the creative duo Metaphrog Metaphrog are graphic novelists Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, best known for making the ''Louis'' series of comics. History Marrs is originally from France, where she studied Arts and Letters. Chalmers is from the west of Scotland and has a ..., a.k.a. Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers. Track listing #"Kitchen T.V." – 2:39 #"Plastic Skull" – 2:49 #"High in the Morning" – 2:39 #"Zoo" – 2:29 #"Standing in Line" – 3:07 #"Bottle" – 2:31 #"Redground" – 3:15 #"Like a Baby" – 1:58 #"Stop" – 3:33 #"Dusty" – 2:53 #"Boat Song" – 2:21 #"Boy or Girl" – 1:56 #"W.O.P.R.M." – 4:52 References External links ''Austin Chronicle'' review''NME'' review 1999 debut albums Astrid (band) albums Fantastic Plastic Records albums {{1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Electric Blues
''Post Electric Blues'' is the seventh studio album by Scottish indie rock band Idlewild, self-released to around 3000 fans in June 2009. The album was subsequently released on 5 October 2009 on Cooking Vinyl. Prior to recording, guitarist Rod Jones revealed that the album has "quite an upbeat musical feel," and that it sounds "like a band having a good time." Upon the album's traditional release, Jones stated: "I think the way we approached making this record, and doing things ourselves and involving our fans just gave us the freedom and time to do what we wanted to do without any pressure. I think it has been a turning point for us." The album peaked at No. 90 in the UK Album Charts in its first week of physical release. It might have charted higher but the band sold a number of pre-order copies via their website, which is not a registered chart company. The album's first single, "Readers & Writers" was released digitally on 28 September. The album was performed in full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Another World
''Make Another World'' is the fifth full-length studio album by the Scottish rock band Idlewild, released on 5 March 2007 through Sequel Records. The album is the first with bass guitarist Gareth Russell, following Gavin Fox's departure at the end of 2005, and is their first since leaving Parlophone. Vocalist Roddy Woomble said that the band "made a conscious decision to make a strong, loud, rock record." According to the guitarist Rod Jones, the album references each of the band's previous albums, and is a "summing up of the past twelve years". The album was noted for its return to Idlewild's heavier roots, while continuing to maintain a strong sense of melody as displayed on more recent albums. '' Q'' described the album as "the sound of a band re-energised." The album reached 24 on the UK Album Chart and, according to Woomble, has sold "40,000 copies, even though the record label effectively closed down just after it was released." "No Emotion" was released to Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reindeer Section
The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. Lightbody describes the band's sound as "pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-type stuff. Stuff that I really love listening to, like Low, for example, and Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and all that end of things. It's sort of inspired by those records rather than by the American rock music that inspired me to start a band in the first place." The songs "You Are My Joy" and "Cartwheels" were featured on the 2009 Snow Patrol best-of album, '' Up to Now''. History Formation and ''Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear!'': 2001 The Reindeer Section arose – according to Lightbody – out of a chance get-together of musicians at a Lou Barlow gig in Glasgow in 2001, at which Lightbody drunkenly laid down the challenge to others to "make an album together", to which everyone said "yeah yeah". Lightbody "went home and nex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid (band)
Astrid is a guitar-pop foursome formed in Glasgow in the mid-1990s, but with strong ties to Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, Scotland. The group released three studio albums, as well as several singles and EPs, before breaking up in 2004. History Willie Campbell, Charles Clark and Gareth Russell were childhood friends who moved from the Isle of Lewis, off the West coast of Scotland, to Glasgow in the mid-1990s. There, the three began writing songs together; Campbell on vocals, Clark on acoustic guitar and Russell on bass guitar. They then met up with drummer Gareth Thom and began rehearsing in 1997. The group called themselves "Astrid" and quickly caught the attention of Belle & Sebastian who asked them to be their opening act, initially at a local gig and then on a small tour of the UK. Astrid signed up with Fantastic Plastic Records, under whose record label they released their first EP in 1998, ''No Reason''. The group then teamed with former Orange Juice singer, Edwyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
