Bond (band)

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Bond at the presentation of the Peugeot 308CC at the Metrocentre in Gateshead on June 27, 2009
Bond at the presentation of the Peugeot 308CC at the Metrocentre in Gateshead on June 27, 2009
General information
Genre (s) Classic , crossover
founding 2001
Website www.bondquartet.com
Current occupation
1st violin
Elspeth Hanson
2nd violin
 Eos chater
Tania Davis
Gay-Yee Westerhoff
former members
1st violin
 Haylie Ecker

bond is an Australian - British Classical - Crossover - String Quartet .

Members

The band members are Elspeth Hanson (first violinist from London , Great Britain), Eos Chater (second violinist from Cardiff , Wales , Great Britain), Tania Davis ( violist from Sydney , New South Wales , Australia) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff ( cellist from Hull , England , UK).

Haylie Ecker from Perth ( Western Australia , Australia) was the first violinist in the band until 2007 .

  • Elspeth Hanson

  • Eos chater

  • Tania Davis

  • Gay-Yee Westerhoff

Albums

Their debut album, Born was from the UK classical charts , the charts for classical music Britain removed on the grounds that it sounded supposedly "too much like pop music ." Shine , their second album, went gold in the UK and Australia. Remixed , their third release, contained remixes of previous songs as well as three new, previously unreleased songs . Their third studio album, Classified , was a very successful and well-known release. Classified went platinum in Australia and reached both the pop and in the classical charts in Australia Place 1. Explosive: The Best of Bond 2005 is a best-of collection , but again three new hitherto unpublished songs contains .

Others

The band spent a lot of time touring in 2003 , especially in Asia , and took part in the Miss Universe 2003 beauty pageant . Bond were guests at a New Year's Eve concert with André Rieu in Hanover in December 2003 , and they played Victory with Rieu .

bond also had guest appearances in two films: in Johnny English they play the play Kismet and a salsa version of the title theme, in xXx 2 - The Next Level they appear at a reception with the play Victory . You were also involved in filming a commercial for the American Department Store Chain Marshall Fields and shot a commercial in Los Angeles for Japanese karaoke maker Daiichi Kosho.

In 2011, the band released their fourth studio album entitled Play. There were seven years between the third and fourth albums, as the band was on a “joint maternity leave”. Tania Davis meanwhile gave birth to a boy.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US AU AU
2000 Born DE59 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH38 (26 weeks)
CH 		UK16
gold
gold

(22 weeks)UK 		US108 (8 weeks)
US 		AU14th
gold
gold

(9 weeks)AU
First published: October 2, 2000
2002 Shine - AT35 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH74 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK26th
gold
gold

(7 weeks)UK 		US61 (6 weeks)
US 		-
First published: October 14, 2002
2004 Classified - AT26 (17 weeks)
AT 		CH73 (1 week)
CH 		UK32 (3 weeks)
UK 		US76 (6 weeks)
US 		AU1
platinum
platinum

(30 weeks)AU
First published: June 15, 2004

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2005 Explosive: The Best of - AT48 (10 weeks)
AT 		- UK88 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: June 28, 2005

more publishments

  • 2001: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  • 2001: Raymond Weil
  • 2003: Fab Field's Mix
  • 2003: Johnny English
  • 2003: Remixed
  • 2011: Play
  • bond: Video Clip Collection

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2001 Viva! / Wintersun
Born 		- - - UK83 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: 2001

More singles

  • Victory
  • Wintersun
  • Shine
  • Fuego
  • speed
  • Atlanta / Time
  • Viva! / Victory
  • Explosive / Adagio For Strings
  • Fly Samba Fly

Web links

Commons : Bond  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK AU