I like trains

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I like trains
I Like Trains at Nocturnal Culture Night 2018
I Like Trains at Nocturnal Culture Night 2018
General information
origin Leeds , England
Genre (s) Indie rock
founding 2004
Website www.iliketrains.co.uk
Current occupation
David Martin
Guy Bannister
Alistair Bowis
Simon Fogal
Ian Jarrold
former members
Video projections, horn
Ashley Dean

I Like Trains (also: iLiKETRAiNS ) is a British indie rock - band from Leeds .

history

After the EP Progress Reform released in June 2006 , the first album Elegies to Lessons Learned was released in January 2007 on the British label Beggar's Banquet . The instrumental EP The Christmas Tree Ship followed in December 2008 and the second album He Who Saw The Deep on October 25, 2010 . In May 2012 the third album The Shallows was released.

In 2016 the documentary A Divorce Before Marriage by the British filmmakers Ben Lankester and Matt Hopkins was released, which follows the development of the band; from the loss of the first major record deal to the near-dissolution in 2014/15.

style

On the first two albums, the band deals with tragic historical events. Some B-sides of the single releases take up further aspects of the respective story.

For example, the song A Rook House for Bobby is an artistic interpretation of the life story of the eleventh world chess champion Bobby Fischer , which takes up his quote that he wanted to live in a chess tower.

With the third album He Who Saw the Deep , the band slowly moves away from the historical to contemporary issues such as environmental pollution, digitization and interpersonal drama.

gallery

  • I Like Trains, cast live at the Nocturnal Culture Night 2018 in Deutzen

  • Singer David Martin

  • Guitarist Guy Bannister

  • Bass player Alistair Bowis

  • Drummer Simon Fogal

  • Guitarist Ian Jarrold

Discography

Albums

  • Progress Reform (7-track mini album with tracks from the first four singles) (2006)
  • Elegies to Lessons Learned (2007)
  • He Who Saw The Deep (2010)
  • The Shallows (2012)
  • A Divorce Before Marriage (2016)
  • KOMPROMAT (August 2020)

Singles / EPs

  • Stainless Steel (January 2005)
  • Before the Curtains Close Pts 1 & 2 (July 2005)
  • A Rook House For Bobby (October 2005)
  • Terra Nova / Fram (May 2006)
  • Spencer Perceval / I Am Murdered (March 2007)
  • The Deception (September 2007)
  • We Go Hunting (April 2008)
  • The Christmas Tree Ship EP (2008)
  • Sea of ​​Regrets (October 2009)
  • A Father's Son (November 2010)
  • Sirens (July 2011)
  • This Skin Full of Bones (October 2011)
  • Beacons (October 2012)
  • The Truth on YouTube, May 6, 2020.
  • Dig In (June 2020)

swell

  1. ^ Daniel Chapman: I'm Also In a Band Called I Like Trains ”- A Divorce Before Marriage. The City Talking, April 1, 2015 ; accessed on December 11, 2018
  2. ↑ The song can be heard on the band page
  3. ↑ Description (English) ( Memento from June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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