Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
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General information
Genre (s) Post-punk , Gothic rock
founding 1981, 2004
resolution 1991
Website www.red-lorry-yellow-lorry.com
Current occupation
Chris Reed
David Wolfenden
Mark Chillington
Mark Hubbard
former members
singing
 Mark Sweeney
guitar
 Martin Fagan
Paul Southern
Steve Smith
Mick Brown
Chris Oldroyd
Gary Weight
Martin Scott
Leon Phillips

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry is a British new wave band that was formed in Leeds in 1981 .

Band history

The band was formed by Chris Reed (guitar, songwriting ) and original vocalist Mark Sweeney, along with bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown (who later joined The Mission ). Reed had a guitarist in a school band called Acromasia started the progressive rock - cover versions played. Sweeney had previously sung in the punk band Knife Edge , which had given their farewell concert on August 1, 1981. Bassist Steve Smith played in a power pop band called Just Frank in 1978/79 and released a single. Drummer Mick Brown was also previously in another local band that had released a single.

Matt Sweeney left the band soon and Chris Reed took over the vocals from then on, Martin Fagan was brought into the band as the second guitarist. On April 1, 1982, the band was able to secure a gig as a local opening act for The Jam in Leeds. The band's sound consisted of deafening booming guitars, hard pounding drums and Reed's hollow-sounding vocals.

In 1982, Dave Hall, the manager of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, offered the label Red Rhino Records a demo tape . The group then received a contract. Beating My Head was pressed from the demo recording to the successful debut single without any change.

Fagan and Smith left the band soon after and were replaced by Dave Wolfenden and Paul Southern. Wolfenden became a constant with frequent changes in the line-up and was often Reed's partner in the songwriting. Several singles were released in 1983 and 1984, including He's Read and Monkeys on Juice . With early support from John Peel , they recorded two radio sessions with him in March and November 1983.

The band's debut album, Talk About the Weather , was released in 1985, received mostly good reviews and went straight to number 3 on the NME Indie Rock Album Charts . The album became the fourth best-selling independent LP of 1985 and did a surprisingly good job for a smaller label, as did the following singles Chance and Spinning Round . The band turned down offers from larger record companies and deliberately stayed with the smaller Red Rhino label in order to be able to work without external pressure.

In early December 1985, however, drummer Mick Brown left the band to join The Mission (he had already appeared as a guest musician on their debut single in October), bassist Paul Southern also dropped out and was replaced by Leon David Phillips, who was a sound engineer by profession. At the beginning of 1986 the new drummer Christopher Oldroyd from the band Music For Pleasure joined the band , who, in contrast to Mick Brown, played a fully assembled drum set in addition to the drum computer, so that the drums on the next studio album Paint Your Wagon were much more powerful.

The new album Paint Your Wagon was released on March 7, 1986 and also reached number 3 in the NME indie charts . After two more singles, the band moved to Beggars Banquet Records in 1987 , where they released two studio albums in 1988 and 1989. According to Chris Reed, the ambitious album Blow (1989) was the "first record that was made independently of heavy drug use" and tried to make the band's sound more accessible. The album turned out to be a commercial flop, the record deal was canceled, there was a dispute in the band and guitarist David Wolfenden got out. He accepted an offer as a guitar technician with The Mission and also played guitar on their Deliverance tour in 1990. Bassist Leon Phillips also left the band and was initially replaced by Adam Pearson (later with the Sisters of Mercy ). For the already booked US tour in early 1990 and the following dates in Europe, Chris Reed quickly put together a new band: Martin Scott (ex-MDMA) on guitar, who had a clear hard rock influence, and Gary Weight on bass, who became Reeds new songwriting partner.

In 1990, Reed temporarily broke up the band, moved in with Weight and founded a project called Generayt with him . With an additional keyboard player, demo recordings were made for a planned album called Sparkhead and four concerts were played in Germany.

In early 1991 Reed moved to Hamburg, where he reactivated Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. In April a new single Talking Back was released on the small southern German label Deathwish Office , followed in October by the new studio album Blasting off , which musically represented a return to the harder style before Blow . A European tour planned for October / November had to be canceled due to difficulties with the organizer and postponed to January / February 1992, for which Dave Wolfenden temporarily returned to the band. In 1992 Chris Reed became a father, put the band on hold and turned to a brief solo career. The last appearance for the next 10 years took place on August 21, 1993 at the Off The Streets benefit festival in London's Town & Country Club, vague plans for a new LP in 1995 were not fulfilled.

In 2003, Reed Red Lorry breathed new life into Yellow Lorry and released four new songs in 2004, which are only available as a download on the band's website. In the same year the band toured the UK. In 2005 a live DVD was released from a concert in Belgium that was recorded during the European tour.

In 2013 Chris Reed announced a new studio album. At the end of 2014, David Wolfenden announced that a new studio album with 13 songs had been recorded and was expected to be released in spring 2015.

Discography

Albums

  • Talk about the Weather (1985)
  • Paint Your Wagon (1986)
  • Smashed Hits (1987) compilation
  • Nothing Wrong (1988)
  • Blow (1989)
  • Blasting Off (1991)
  • The Singles 1982-87 (1994) compilation
  • Generation (1994) - compilation
  • The Very Best Of (2000) - compilation
  • Nothing Wrong / Blow (2001)

Singles and EPs

  • Beating My Head (1982)
  • Take It All (1983)
  • He's Read (1983)
  • This Today EP (1983)
  • Monkey's On Juice (1983)
  • Hollow Eyes (1984)
  • Chance (1985)
  • Spinning Round (1985)
  • Walking on Your Hands (1986)
  • Cut Down (1986)
  • Paint Your Wagon 7 ”Only (1986)
  • Crawling Mantra EP, released under the briefly changed name "The Lorries" (1987)
  • Nothing Wrong (1988)
  • Open Up (1988)
  • Only Dreaming (Wide Awake) (1988)
  • Temptation (1989)
  • Talking Back (1991)

Compilations

  • Gothic Rock Volume 2: 80's Into 90's

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Manning, “A Life In Music?” In: GuyManning.com website, 2003.
  2. ^ A b Mark Sweeney: "Knife Edge, Leeds." . In: Boredteenagers.co.uk website, 2001.
  3. ^ A b Martin Roach / Neil Perry: "The Mission: Names Are For Tombstones, Baby." Independent Music Press 1993, pp. 28-30.
  4. ↑ Gittins, Ian. Melody Maker , "The Angry Brigade" article on the band, October 25, 1986, pg. 32.
  5. ↑ Keeping it Peel - Artist AZ: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry . BBC .co.UK. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  6. ^ "Independent LPs" Chart, New Musical Express , February 23, 1985, pg. 4th
  7. ↑ a b Frank wages Man: Trans-Siberian Western. In: SPEX magazine May 1986, page 35.
  8. ^ "Independent 45s" Chart, New Musical Express , January 5, 1985, pg. 4. The single reached # 7 on the chart.
  9. ^ "Independent 45s" Chart, New Musical Express , October 19, 1985, pg. 4. "Spinning Round" peaked at # 11 on the chart.
  10. ↑ Angelika Hefner: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Hollow eyes and black humor. In: SPEX magazine June 1985, page 13.
  11. ^ "Independent LPs" Chart, New Musical Express , March 29, 1986, pg. 44
  12. ↑ Sandra Grether: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Drugfree ex new wave cult band. In: SPEX magazine March 1990, page 15.
  13. ^ Franz Lambert: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Raw power. In: EB / Metronom-Magazin No. 34, October / November 1991, page 22.
  14. ↑ Brief information . In: Zillo-Magazin, February 1991, page 7.
  15. ↑ Manfred Upnmoor: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. This is energy. In: Zillo-Magazin November 1991, pages 28-31.
  16. ↑ Brief information. In: Zillo-Magazin March 1991, page 6.
  17. ↑ a b Manfred Upnmoor: Step Into Your Mind. Chris Reed's Woof! In: Zillo-Magazin, December 1994, pages 14-15.
  18. ↑ Didier Becu: “Red Lorry Yellow Lorry: We Are More Of An In Your Face Punk Band With An Industrial Sound.” In: Peek-A-Boo-Magazine.be website, March 16, 2013.
  19. ↑ Joe Whyte, “Profiled: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.” In: Vive Le Rock! Magazine, Issue 23, Dec. 2014, pp. 20-21.