Tindersticks

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Tindersticks
Tindersticks, Victoria Eugenia, Donostia, 2009
Tindersticks, Victoria Eugenia, Donostia, 2009
General information
origin Nottingham , England
Genre (s) Chamber pop , indie rock
founding 1992, 2008
resolution 2003
Website www.tindersticks.co.uk
Current occupation
Stuart A. Staples
Piano , keyboard , organ , guitar , percussion
 David Boulter
Neil Fraser
Drums , percussion
 Earl Harvin
Dan McKinna
former members
Guitar, violin
Dickon Hinchliffe (until 2006)
bass
 Mark Colwill (until 2006)
Drums, percussion, trumpet
Alasdair Macaulay (until 2006)

The Tindersticks are a British rock band that became famous in the 1990s for their merging of guitar pop and chamber music. The band around singer Stuart A. Staples was formed in 1992 as the successor to the band Asphalt Ribbons in Nottingham . Staples was also the focus of this band as a singer and guitarist. Already in their first phase from 1992 until the band split up in 2003, the use of classical instruments such as strings, percussion and wind instruments was characteristic of the style of this band.

The band celebrated their comeback in 2008 with the studio album The Hungry Saw . Since that time, and also through the soundtracks for cinema films by French director Claire Denis , the musicians have perfected the classical instrumentation of their works. The style of the Tindersticks for the creative period since the new beginning can therefore be characterized as "chamber pop".

history

After the recording of the last Asphalt Ribbons mini-LP Old Horse in 1992, the original line-up of the Tindersticks came together under the new name, which singer Stuart A. Staples had read on a matchbox on a Greek beach. The first demo recordings of the new group followed in the same year - 1992 - the first single Patchwork on the label Tippy Toe Records.

The live performances of the Tindersticks were and are received positively in many cases, as well as their studio albums. After the album Waiting For The Moon , Staples recorded the two solo albums Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04 and Leaving Songs in 2005 and 2006 , which led to speculation about the dissolution of the Tindersticks due to the latter title. On his website, Staples wrote:

“These are songs written on the verge of leaving the things I loved and stepping into a new unknown life, both musically and personally. I was always aware that these songs were the end of something, a kind of closing a circle of a way of writing that I started so long ago and I knew I had to move on from. "

(About:)

“These are songs that were written in a situation where I left behind the things I loved and stepped into a new, unknown life, both musically and personally. It was always clear to me that these songs were the end of something, kind of the end of a circle of writing that I had started so long ago and that I knew I had to move away from. "

In the following year (2007) three of the six original members left the band; the remaining trio recorded the album The Hungry Saw , which was released in 2008.

At the end of January 2010 they released the album Falling down a Mountain on the 4AD labels and the independent label Constellation Records . After that, the band, which had grown into a quintet, founded their own label Lucky dog ; the sound carriers are sold in Germany by the City Slang label .

At the end of 2019 the 13th album No Treasure but Hope was released . The album contains songs "of beguiling beauty tanned in melancholy" and is "one of the really outstanding ones" of 2019, judged Andreas Lüschen-Heimer. Peter Seester, however, found the record "moderate". With him, the band "crossed the red line to kitsch and upscale hits".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Tindersticks
  UK 56 10/23/1993 (1 week)
The Second Tindersticks Album
  UK 13 04/15/1995 (3 weeks)
The Bloomsbury Theater 3/12/95
  UK 32 10/28/1995 (1 week)
Curtains
  DE 89 06/23/1997 (1 week)
  UK 37 06/21/1997 (2 weeks)
Simple pleasure
  DE 64 09/20/1999 (1 week)
  UK 36 09/18/1999 (1 week)
Can our love
  DE 99 06/04/2001 (2 weeks)
  UK 47 06/02/2001 (1 week)
Falling down a mountain
  DE 87 02/05/2010 (1 week)
  CH 77 02/07/2010 (1 week)
The Something Rain
  DE 29 03/02/2012 (4 weeks)
  AT 23 03/02/2012 (3 weeks)
  CH 37 03/04/2012 (3 weeks)
  UK 59 03/03/2012 (1 week)
Across Six Leap Years
  DE 80 10/25/2013 (1 week)
  AT 74 10/25/2013 (1 week)
  CH 96 10/27/2013 (1 week)
The waiting room
  DE 20th 01/29/2016 (2 weeks)
  AT 8th 02/05/2016 (2 weeks)
  CH 30th 01/31/2016 (2 weeks)
  UK 71 02/04/2016 (1 week)
No treasure but hope
  DE 29 11/22/2019 (1 week)
  AT 41 11/29/2019 (1 week)
  CH 53 11/24/2019 (1 week)
EPs
Kathleen
  UK 61 02/05/1994 (1 week)
Singles
No More Affairs
  UK 58 03/18/1995 (1 week)
Traveling Light
  UK 51 08/12/1995 (1 week)
Bathtime
  UK 38 06/07/1997 (1 week)
Rented rooms
  UK 56 11/01/1997 (1 week)
Can We Start Again?
  UK 54 09/04/1999 (1 week)
Sometimes it hurts
  UK 60 08/02/2003 (1 week)

Albums

  • Tindersticks First Album (1993)
  • Tindersticks Second Album (1995)
  • Curtains (1997)
  • Simple Pleasure (1999)
  • Can Our Love ... (2001)
  • Waiting for the Moon (2003)
  • The Hungry Saw (2008)
  • Falling down a Mountain (2010)
  • The Something Rain (2012)
  • Across Six Leap Years (2013)
  • Ypres (2014)
  • The Waiting Room (2016)
  • Minute Bodies - The Intimate World of Percy Smith (2017), with Christine Ott
  • No Treasure But Hope (2019)

Live albums and live EPs

  • Live in Berlin October 5th, 1993 (1993)
  • Amsterdam 8/2/94 (1994)
  • The Bloomsbury Theater 3/12/95 (1995)
  • Live at the Boutique May 9-12, 2001 (2001)
  • Coliseu Dos Recreios De Lisboa 30 Oct 2001 (2003)
  • Live at Glasgow City Halls 5th Oct 2008 (2008)
  • Live in London 2010 (2010)
  • San Sebastian 2012

Soundtracks

  • Nénette et Boni (1996)
  • Trouble Every Day (2001)
  • The Trojan Horse (2003)
  • 35 Rum / 35 Shots Of Rum (2008)
  • White Material (2009)
  • Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009 (2011)
  • Les Salauds (2013)
  • High Life (2018)

Compilations

  • Donkeys 92-97 (1998)
  • Working for the Man (2004)
  • BBC Sessions (2007)

Singles and EPs

  • Patchwork (1992)
  • Marbles (1993)
  • A Marriage Made in Heaven (1993)
  • Unwired (EP, 1993)
  • City Sickness (1993)
  • We Have All the Time in the World (1993)
  • Live in Berlin (1993)
  • Kathleen (EP, 1994)
  • No More Affairs (1995)
  • Plus De Liaisons (1995)
  • The Smooth Sounds of Tindersticks (1995)
  • Traveling Light (1995)
  • Bathtime (1997)
  • Rented Rooms (1997)
  • Can We Start Again? (1999)
  • What is a man? (2000)
  • Trouble Every Day (2001)
  • Don't Even Go There (EP, 2003)
  • Trojan Horse (2003)
  • Sometimes It Hurts (2003)
  • My Oblivion (2003)
  • The Hungry Saw (2008)
  • What Are You Fighting For? (2008)
  • Boobar Come Back to Me (2008)
  • Black Smoke (2010)
  • Medicine (2012)
  • This Fire of Autumn (2012)

swell

  1. ↑ Official website
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuartastaples.com
  3. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/sz-spezial/treff-region/musik/die-tindersticks-sorgen-mit-ihren-neuen-songs-fuer-gaensehaut-momente_aid-48613345
  4. ↑ Der Kurier (Karlsruhe), February 21, 2020, p. 17.
  5. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CH UK @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  6. ↑ Singing Heavens in FAZ from November 1, 2013, page 38

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