The Tears
| The Tears | |
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 The Tears live at the Roskilde Festival (2005) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Britpop |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | http://www.thetears.org |
| Current occupation | |
| Brett Anderson | |
| Bernard Butler | |
| Nathan Fisher | |
| Will Foster | |
| Mako Sakamoto | |
The Tears is a British band formed in 2004 by former Suede members and songwriters Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler.
Band history
Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler played in the band Suede since 1988 , until they fell out while working on the second album Dog Man Star and Butler left the band in 1994 and started a solo career. Anderson completed the work he had started and until the dissolution of Suede in 2003 a total of five more albums were released. Anderson and Butler never exchanged a word during those years.
After the breakup of Suede, Anderson got in contact with Butler and at a meeting in a London pub they decided, despite the previous differences, to resume writing songs together. About this collaboration, which should be all about the music, Butler says: There is only one goal and that is to make a great album. There are no social ambitions, we don't go bowling together.
The result of this joint work is the debut album Here come The Tears , released in June 2005 under the label V2 Records (rough trade) , which consists of 13 songs by the songwriter duo. The choice of the name The Tears is based on the poem Femmes Damnées by Philip Larkin , which ends with the words The only sound heard is the sound of tears .
The first single Refugees was released in April 2005 and rose to number 9 in the UK charts . The song also premiered in Germany on May 4, 2005, when it was played in full on Dasding's UK chart show . In June 2005 the release Lovers followed , which reached number 24 in the UK charts and the album Here come The Tears , also released in June 2005, reached number 15 in the UK charts.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 UK
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| 2005 | Here Come The Tears |
UK15 (2 weeks) UK |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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UK
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| 2005 | Refugees Here Come The Tears |
UK9 (4 weeks) UK |
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| Lovers Here Come The Tears |
UK24 (2 weeks) UK |
