Glow (band)

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Glow
General information
origin Munich , Germany
Genre (s) Pop-punk , pop-rock
founding 1996 as stereophonic , 2017
resolution 2004
Website glow.de
Founding members
Danny Humphreys
Volker Falk
Rachel Rep
Guitar, vocals
 Andreas "Andi" Wohlrab
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Danny Humphreys
former members
Drums
 Manfred Mildenberger

Glow is a rock band from Munich, founded in 1996 . It was dissolved in 2004 and reactivated as a one-man project in 2017.

history

As a quartet

Danny Humphreys, son of the pop singer Dunja Rajter and the Les Humphries Singers founder Les Humphries (from which the spelling is deliberately differentiated with "y"), worked in 1996 as a product manager at the record company BMG Ariola , where he and his colleague Andreas Wohlrab composed songs from the accounting department . In October 1996 they were ready to found a band. The drummer Rachel Rep (early 2000s drummer for the Farin Urlaub Racing Team ), who practiced in the same rehearsal room , became a member and after a party evening in Munich's nightlife, the bassist was also determined: Volker Falk.

Just after a handful of appearances, including the Emergenza music talent competition held in Munich , in which the group under the name “Stereophonic” achieved third place in the field of 80 young musicians, they signed Wolfgang Funk in March 1998 for his GUN label Records or its sub-label Supersonic. Due to the similarity of the name to the Welsh band Stereophonics , the group was soon renamed Glow. The suggestion, which means “glow” in German, came from Wohlrab and was found to be appropriate because the old tube amplifiers with which they were working at that time served a warmer, more or less glowing guitar sound.

In August 1998 the debut album Superclass was produced in the space studios in Munich under the direction of Corni Bartels . It was then mixed by Ronald Prent in the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, the Netherlands . The advance single Mr. Brown , which was released in March 1999, reached a top 40 position in the German single charts . The album, which was released on May 25th, also ranked in this category. For the cover artwork visualizing the album title , the interior of an airplane from the 1950s was fitted out with old furniture.

Glow played her first tour as a support band for the group Liquido , which had their number 1 hit Narcotic at the time. Immediately afterwards, Glow started his own headlining tour. The then little known band Reamonn acted as the opening act. Between March and December Glow gave 160 concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Belgium and Luxembourg. Wohlrab left the band in the songwriting phase of the follow-up album Every Single Day in early 2000.

As a trio

After Superclass was also released in Japan, Glow went on a promotion tour there, which included concerts in Osaka , Fuji and Yokohama . For album production, the record company brought the remaining three musicians together with producer Fabio Trentini , who had already worked for Guano Apes and Donots , in September 2000 . In addition, Dirk Riegner , music producer with a focus on electronic music , contributed sound technical gadgets such as loops and samples . The piece President of Boarderland was selected in early 2001 as the theme song for the ARD series Powderpark (repeats are broadcast under the name Suddenly Adult ), in which Glow also plays himself and has several small appearances. Because of this broad impact, Glow was able to repeat the success of Mr. Brown . However, the album did not make it into the charts. In May of the same year, the group, now established as the main band, toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In November 2001, the contract was not renewed by the record company GUN Records due to the disparity between promotional expenses and sales. The band signed a new contract with FAME Recordings the following year. Immediately afterwards, the single Private Superman was released , which was used for the background music for the trailer for the film Party Animals - Wilder goes not! was selected, and in April 2003 she went into the studio to record the third album, At Your Own Risk . In Chris Wolff, FAME Recordings and Glow found a producer who also contributed his own piano and string arrangements. Fabio Trentini (bass) and Marco Minnemann (drums) performed as guest musicians . Since Glow did not want to completely hand over the technical production, as was the case with the albums before, this time they took part in the production process.

The first single from the album was Stick Around , the second She Knows . Both were released before the album was released on September 29, 2003. Glow presented the new repertoire at two festivals in August , as well as at the beginning of their tour in the opening act for Die Happy , which lasted from September 17 to November 11 and again Germany, Austria and Switzerland led. Shortly before the tour, drummer Rachel Rep broke up with the group by joining the Farin Urlaub Racing Team. Manfred Mildenberger played the tour on drums.

As a one-man project

Glow was dissolved in January 2004. The trained painter and varnisher Volker Falk moved back to the Allgäu and joined the family's painting business. Danny Humphreys stayed in Munich and became a manager in the entertainment industry , both product manager and personal manager (from ex- No-Angels member Vanessa Petruo ). He also ran songwriting workshops and produced music for television. Despite official inactivity, Glow went back to the studio in July 2011. The occasion was an inquiry from mattress manufacturer Hukla, who was looking for a rocking promotional song for a downhill mattress world championship. This resulted in the fun punk number Downhill on Your Bed . Humphreys then started a serious revival of Glow in January 2015, but without solid supporters. The basis were the best song ideas that had come up in the last ten years. In September 2017, after a solo elaboration and production phase, the new single Better Life was available. The full album titled One Man Show was released in November. In addition to Better Life , Do You Love Me , Afraid of Landing and Long Way to Go were released as singles and a music video was shot for each .

GLOW (2001)

style

The style is just as inconsistent as the detailed description is inconsistent.

The internet platform laut.de simply calls the style “good-mood rock” due to the “sound [s] arranged with a lot of melody and skill, which is somewhere between pop and punk ”. Also in the third album still was pigeonholing not possible because Punk, " Offbeat -Hüpfer" and pop stood harmoniously side by side. In Metal Hammer , two editors , once in 1999 and once in 2003, used the term "college rock". Discogs refers to Glow as a "rock band", with the albums and most of the singles being assigned to pop rock or alternative rock , while the three extracts from the Every-Single-Day album are named " Synth-Pop " and " Euro " respectively House ”.

The industry magazine MusikWoche chose "pop rock" as the style indication for the debut album, which sometimes points in the direction of psychedelic rock of the 1970s or Britpop of the 1990s, which makes it "refreshingly varied" and "competitive by international standards". The music magazine Visions and the website shitesite.de assessed this very differently . In Visions it said in the review to At Your Own Risk , the musicians were " Bubblegum -Rocker" whose "is points crossover -Pop numbers" with " 15.08 - riffs and uninspired, terribly monotonous drum rumble" was appointed. The texts are said to be of "stupid insignificance" and therefore were apparently created for lazy people or people with little means. The reviewer on shitesite.de had also made the texts and found that they consist of English beginners' vocabulary with used standard rhymes . He also noticed: "In order to press words into the meter , they are emphasized incorrectly if necessary." The song titles are stereotypes ; overall the album is insubstantial. So he came to the conclusion that Glow “had nothing to say” and “had little talent and no style”. The lifestyle magazine unclesally * s recognized a lyrical improvement in the same album: The “rock songs with pop attitudes ” would only rarely have the “slightly silly text passages”.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Super class
  DE 43 06/07/1999 (3 weeks)
Singles
Mr. Brown
  DE 39 03/29/1999 (13 weeks)
  CH 43 05/23/1999 (1 week)
President of Boarderland
  DE 35 03/05/2001 (10 weeks)

Albums

  • 1999: Superclass (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2001: Every Single Day (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2003: At Your Own Risk (FAME Recordings / Drakkar Records)
  • 2017: One Man Show (Soundtopeople)

Singles

  • 1999: Mr. Brown (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 1999: Lamp-Post (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 1999: Shoo Be Doo (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 1999: Faster 2000 (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2001: President of Boarderland (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2001: Every Single Day (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2001: Travel Around the World (GUN Records / Supersonic)
  • 2002: Private Superman (FAME Recordings / Drakkar Records)
  • 2003: She Knows (FAME Recordings / Drakkar Records)
  • 2003: Ordinary Girl (FAME Recordings / Drakkar Records)
  • 2011: Downhill on Your Bed (Global Satellite)
  • 2017: Better Life (Soundtopeople)
  • 2017: Do You Love Me (Soundtopeople)
  • 2017: Afraid of Landing (Soundtopeople)
  • 2017: Long Way to Go (Soundtopeople)

Contributions to compilations

  • 1998: High Spirits on Crossing All Over # 8 (BMG Records)
  • 1999: Mr. Brown on Best of Summer Hits (BMG Records)
  • 2000: Mr. Brown on Fetenhits - Party Rock Classics (Polystar)
  • 2000: Faster on Big Noize (EMI Records)
  • 2001: President of Boarderland on Bravo Super Show 2001 (BMG Records)
  • 2001: Every Single Day on Just the Best 3/2001 (EMI Music Media)
  • 2002: President of Boarderland on Fetenhits - New Rock Party (Polystar)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Glow. Portrait. Laut.de biography. In: laut.de. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Danny Humphreys. Biography. In: mediabiz.de. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Weisser: Röhrenfest . In: Metal Hammer . June 1999, Hard Fax, pp. 12 .
  4. ↑ a b c Marcus Willfroth: Glow. Rejection of the silly . In: unclesally * s . No. 90 , October 2003.
  5. ↑ a b Norbert Schiegl: On the couch . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 20/1999 , May 17, 1999, Music People, pp. 9 .
  6. ↑ Jewelcase sticker and promotional insert for the single Private Superman , FA, ME Recordings & Drakkar Records , Munich 2002.
  7. ^ Laundry slip for She Knows , Drakkar / FAME Recordings, Erding, 2003.
  8. ↑ 1. Mattress Downhill. World premiere. In: moebelmarkt.de. October 4, 2011, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Armin Weber: The Happy, Glow. Munich: Georg-Elser-Halle . In: Metal Hammer . November 2003, live concert, p. 136 .
  10. ↑ Glow (4). Profile. In: discogs.com. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ A very special kind of debut . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 17/1999 , April 26, 1999, news, p. 18 .
  12. ^ Quintus Berger: Glow - At Your Own Risk. In: visions.de. November 2003, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Michael Kraft: Heard: Glow - "At Your Own Risk". In: shitesite.de. August 19, 2003, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH

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