Starsailor

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Starsailor
Starsailor at Rock in Rio (2006)
Starsailor at Rock in Rio (2006)
General information
Genre (s) Britpop
founding 1999, 2014
resolution 2009 (time out)
Website www.starsailorband.co.uk
Last occupation
James Walsh
James Stel Stelfox
Ben Byrne
Barry Westhead (since 2000)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Love is here
  DE 26th 05/11/2001 (6 weeks)
  AT 25th 04/11/2001 (10 weeks)
  CH 72 10/21/2001 (3 weeks)
  UK 2 
platinum
platinum
10/20/2001 (47 weeks)
  US 129 03/09/2002 (8 weeks)
Silence is easy
  DE 20th 09/29/2003 (4 weeks)
  AT 17th 09/28/2003 (4 weeks)
  CH 24 09/28/2003 (4 weeks)
  UK 2 
gold
gold
09/27/2003 (19 weeks)
On the outside
  DE 93 10/31/2005 (1 week)
  AT 33 10/30/2005 (3 weeks)
  CH 25th 10/30/2005 (3 weeks)
  UK 13 
silver
silver
October 29, 2005 (7 weeks)
All the plans
  AT 60 03/20/2009 (1 week)
  CH 31 03/22/2009 (3 weeks)
  UK 26th 03/21/2009 (2 weeks)
All This Life
  CH 58 09/10/2017 (1 week)
  UK 23 09/14/2017 (1 week)
Singles
Fever
  UK 18th 02/17/2001 (6 weeks)
Good Souls
  UK 12 05/05/2001 (9 weeks)
Alcoholic
  UK 10 09/29/2001 (7 weeks)
Lullaby
  UK 36 12/22/2001 (4 weeks)
Poor misguided fool
  UK 23 03/30/2002 (3 weeks)
Silence is easy
  UK 9 09/13/2003 (8 weeks)
Born again
  UK 40 11/29/2003 (3 weeks)
Four to the floor
  DE 82 12/01/2003 (10 weeks)
  CH 14th 12/19/2004 (21 weeks)
  UK 24 03/13/2004 (4 weeks)
In the Crossfire
  UK 22nd 10/15/2005 (4 weeks)
This time
  UK 24 02/04/2006 (3 weeks)
Keep Us Together
  UK 47 05/20/2006 (1 week)
Tell Me It's Not Over
  UK 73 03/14/2009 (1 week)

Starsailor is one in 1,999 Wigan ( England founded) British band . It plays melodic Britpop and was named after a 1970 album by singer Tim Buckley .

Band history

It was singers like Neil Young or Nick Drake who persuaded Starsailor singer James Walsh to form a band. So the band was founded in today's line-up while he was studying music. Keyboardist Barry Westhead was only added later to complete the band, whose members are mainly from Warrington , only Walsh grew up in Chorley . In April 2000 the band performed for the first time in London and was then courted by many record companies. After all, it was EMI that you signed up to. 2001 came out the first two singles Fever and Good Souls , which both reached a place in the top 20. The follow-up single Alcoholic even made it into the top 10.

Starsailor's debut album Love Is Here was released in October 2001 and sold quite successfully. Two years later, the follow-up album Silence Is Easy came on the market, which was able to confirm the commercial success of the debut album. This contains two songs produced by Phil Spector and had an internationally successful single with Four to the Floor .

In 2005 the musicians released their third album On the Outside and appeared at some concerts as the opening act for U2 . In 2006 they appeared in the opening act at two Rolling Stones concerts in Germany . At the end of August 2006 Starsailor toured the USA for the first time, as he did at the 2005 concerts, supported by Richard “Echoboy” Warren (vocals, guitar, harmonica).

After their less successful fourth album All the Plans , front man James Walsh announced a break for the band in 2009 to concentrate on his own projects.

Starsailor has been playing concerts again since summer 2014. In November 2014, she appeared as the opening act for James . In 2015 she made her own tours through Asia and the USA. A UK tour is planned for October 2015.

Discography

Albums

  • 2001: Love Is Here
  • 2003: Silence Is Easy
  • 2005: On the Outside
  • 2009: All the Plans
  • 2017: All This Life

Singles

  • 2001: Fever
  • 2001: Good Souls
  • 2001: Alcoholic
  • 2002: Lullaby
  • 2002: Poor Misguided Fool
  • 2003: Silence Is Easy
  • 2003: Born Again
  • 2003: Four to the Floor
  • 2005: In the Crossfire
  • 2006: This Time
  • 2006: Keep Us Together
  • 2008: Boy in Waiting
  • 2009: Tell Me It's Not Over

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ^ Kai Florian Becker: Starsailor. British rock band. In: munzinger.de. July 9, 2013, accessed September 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Report on lep.co.uk (English). Retrieved December 27, 2013.

Web links

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