Robert Coyne (born 1969) is a British

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musician and singer-songwriter. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and sings. Coyne is the son of the musician, painter and author

Kevin Coyne Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The "anti-star" was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England, and died in his adopted home of Nurember ...

, who died in 2004. In Germany Robert and his vocalist brother Eugene, the sons of Coyne's first marriage, appeared on some of their father's recordings including ''Tough And Sweet'' (1993) and ''Sugar Candy Taxi'' (1999). As a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Robert eventually joined his father's band and contributed to several further albums, including ''Room Full of Fools'' (2000), ''Carnival'' (2002), ''Donut City'' (2004) and ''One Day In Chicago'' (2005, with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts). Coyne has also worked as a musician with

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, Spooky Tooth,

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and Chris Wilson of the

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. In 2006 Coyne provided the soundtrack for the Edinburgh Film Festival-winning documentary feature ''The Great Happiness Space'', and in 2007 released his first solo album ''Death Is Not My Destiny'', on which he sang for the first time. The following year, he founded "The Robert Coyne Outfit" to present his music on stage. In 2010 Coyne released the album ''Woodland Conspiracy'', accompanied only by his guitar and on some tracks by a Fender Rhodes piano. With

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, the drummer of the avant-garde band Can, he recorded the album ''The Obscure Department'' in 2013. Two more albums with Liebezeit, ''Golden Arc (2014)'' and ''I Still Have This Dream'' (2016), followed. ''Last Lion'', another solo album, was also released in 2016. Drawings by Coyne, drawn when he was aged about 10, feature on the cover of his father's 1980 album ''

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''. He has also drawn the artwork for the covers of several of his own releases.

Discography

*''Death Is Not My Destiny'' (2007), Turpentine Records *''Woodland Conspiracy'' (2010), Meyer Records *''Soft Tread of the Future'', (2012), Red Star Digital *''The Obscure Department'' (2013, with

), Meyer Records *''Golden Arc'' (2014, with Jaki Liebezeit), Meyer Records *''Memory Deluxe: I Knew Buffalo Bill 2'' (2014, with Jeremy Gluck), Flicknife Records *''I Still Have This Dream'' (2016, with Jaki Liebezeit), Meyer Records *''Last Lion'' (2016), Turpentine Records

References

External links

*
Robert Coyne
at discogs.com
Interview
with Malcolm Carter at pennyblackmusic.co.uk
The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006)
at imdb.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Coyne, Robert 1969 births English rock musicians English male singer-songwriters Musicians from Preston, Lancashire Living people