Shywolf
| Shywolf | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Heanor , England |
| Genre (s) | New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Rock |
| founding | 1976 as Spoonfull, 1980, 2006 |
| resolution | 1979, 1985 |
| Current occupation | |
| Mick Kitchener | |
| Adam Peacock | |
| Phil Toone | |
singing |
Darren Travis |
| former members | |
Electric bass, vocals |
Steve Littlewood |
Drums |
Jay Melbourne |
Drums |
Don Bailey |
Shywolf ( spelling ShyWolf ) is an English rock and new wave of British heavy metal band from Heanor , which was founded in 1976 under the name Spoonfull and has been active since then with interruptions. The group was also briefly known as Blitz .
history
The band's origins go back to 1976 when the band Spoonfull was founded in the Midlands by 17-year-old Phil Toone. In 1977 the single Troubled Times appeared with the song Country Blues as the B-side . In 1979 the band split up. In early 1980 Toone was persuaded by the Birmingham label Big Bear Records to revive the group by offering the group a place on the live album Live at the Barrel Organ . As a new member, the bassist and singer Steve Littlewood was then in the lineup. For the phonogram, the trio was recorded together with Speed Limit and Mayday on one of their last appearances . In addition, the band could be heard in 1980 with the two songs On Your Trail and Nine 'Til Five on the sampler Brum Beats . A little later the band renamed itself Blitz, which was followed by concerts with Budgie and the Tom Robinson Band in 1981. Within a year, singer and guitarist Phil Toone and singer and bassist Steve Littlewood split from drummer Don Bailey. Bailey was replaced by Jay Melbourne, whereupon the band renamed Shywolf in early 1982.
A few months later the band went to Midland Recording Studios in Walsall , where they recorded the songs Lucretia and California Jam , which were released as a self-financed double-A single in 1982. The single sold quite well and it was listed in the Armed and Ready section of the Kerrang . At the time of publication, the band held appearances under the name Shywolf for the first time. After a tour of Great Britain it came to a break in 1985. The band has been active again since 2006. Since then the band has released various CDs and DVDs .
style
According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the theme song of the debut single is an upbeat piece; it sounds like a mixture of Hellanbach and Gillan . California Jam, on the other hand, is more oriented towards traditional rock, sounds more like the music the band played under the name Spoonfull, and brings back memories of groups like Slender Thread , Factory and Dawn Trader . Matthias Mader noticed in NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The glory days that California Jam is recycling the riff from You Really Got Me .
Discography
- as Spoonfull
- 1977: Troubled Times (single, Pyre Records )
- as Shywolf
- 1982: Lucretia (single, self-published)
- 1983: Demo 1983 (demo, self-published)
- 2010: Revisited (compilation, self-publication)
- 2010: Live In Derby - UK (1983) (live album, self-published)
- 2010: Lucretia (DVD, self-published)
- 2015: Kilbanny Town (EP, self-published)
- 2015: Kilbanny Town (DVD, self-published)
- as Phil Toone's New ShyWolf
- 2012: Return to the Fray (album, self-published)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e About ShyWolf. archive.shywolf.co.uk, archived from the original on December 31, 2016 ; accessed on October 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Spoonfull (4) - Troubled Times. Discogs , accessed October 31, 2017 .
- ^ A b c Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 553 f .
- ↑ Tony Jasper, Derek Oliver: The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Facts on File Inc., New York 1983, ISBN 0-8160-1100-1 , pp. 302 .
- ↑ Shywolf. nwobhm.com, accessed October 31, 2017 .
- ^ Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The glory days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 136 .