Sad Lovers & Giants
| Sad Lovers & Giants | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | New wave , rock |
| founding | 1981 |
| Website | www.sadloversandgiants.net |
| Current occupation | |
| Garçe Allard | |
| Tony McGuinness | |
| Ian Gibson | |
| Will Hicks | |
| Nigel Pollard | |
| former members | |
bass |
Cliff Silver |
guitar |
Tristan Garel-Funk |
Keyboard |
Juliet Sainsbury |
Keyboard |
David Wood |
Sad Lovers & Giants is a British rock band from Watford , Hertfordshire formed in 1981 .
Over the years, the group's line-up changed several times and there were always longer phases in which they were not or only rarely active. After the first two albums, guitarist Tristan Garel-Funk left the band to form the group The Snake Corps .
Musically, the new wave band lives from the voice of Garçe Allard, which is somewhat reminiscent of the young Jim Kerr from Simple Minds and the guitar sounds of Tony McGuinness, which are not so full of effects, but very sound-creating.
Stylistically, the formation is often compared to the English bands The Cure , The Chameleons or The Alarm .
Pieces were also recorded together with the Dutch group The Essence.
Although no new album has been released for more than ten years, the group still performs live at irregular intervals.
Discography
- Epic Garden Music (Midnight, 1982, CD released 1987)
- Feeding the Flame (Midnight, 1983, CD released 1987, re-released 2009)
- In the Breeze (Midnight, 1984)
- Total Sound (Midnight, 1986)
- The Mirror Test (Midnight, 1987)
- Les Annees Vertes (Midnight, 1988)
- Headland (Midnight, 1990)
- Treehouse Poetry (Midnight, 1991)
- Email from Eternity (Anagram Records, 1996, Best of)
- La Dolce Vita (Voight-Kampff Records, 1999, Live in Lausanne)
- Headland and Treehaous Poetry (Voight-Kampff Records, 2001)
- Melting in the Fullness of Time (Voight-Kampff Records, 2003)
- Where The Light Shines Through - The Bigger Picture (Boxset, Werkschau, Cherry red records, 2017)
- Mission Creep (Voight-Kampff Records, 2018)