Young Marble Giants
| Young Marble Giants | |
|---|---|
 Alison Statton, Peter Joyce, Philip Moxham, Stuart Moxham (1978) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Cardiff , Wales |
| Genre (s) | Post-punk , indie-pop |
| founding | 1978, 2003 |
| resolution | 1980, 2015 |
| Last occupation | |
| Alison Statton | |
| Philip Moxham | |
| Stuart Moxham | |
| Andrew Moxham (from 2007) | |
| former members | |
| Peter Joyce (1978) | |
Young Marble Giants were a Welsh rock band from Cardiff . The band existed between 1978 and 1980 and was sporadically active again from 2003.
biography
The band was founded in 1978 and signed a record deal with the newly founded independent label Rough Trade Records in the same year . Two years later, the debut LP Colossal Youth was released . The production cost only £ 1,000 and was limited to an electric guitar , electronic organ , electric bass and drum computer . In addition, an endless tape was used as a further sound source.
After the first punk wedding ended, the rather calm music of the Young Marble Giants hit the zeitgeist. The Young Marble Giants toured Europe and the United States. The single Final Day and the instrumental EP Testcard were released , then the group broke up.
In the 1990s, the debut LP was re-released several times. The Young Marble Giants songwriter Stuart Moxham produced various other musicians, including A. Barbara Manning . In the meantime he also worked with The Gist , the singer Alison Statton with the band Weekend . On June 6, 2000, Salad Days was released , a sound carrier with rarities, published by Vinyl Japan . In 2004 the Young Marble Giants gave a concert for BBC Wales. On December 7th, 2004 the live DVD Live at the Hurray was released with recordings of concerts from November 21st and 22nd, 1980.
meaning
A noticeable number of musicians are committed to the Young Marble Giants, the most famous being Kurt Cobain . Hole , his widow Courtney Love's band , even covered the Young Marble Giants song Credit in the Straight World . The Hamburg band Kolossale Jugend was named after the debut of the Young Marble Giants.
Musician Ken Taylor summed up the appeal of the music of the Young Marble Giants as follows:
“YMG secretly generated more gloom and fear than any drug-addicted punk: Statton's serene singing belies the heartbreak of Moxham's songs in the strangest way. Just this one record - and you can spend years analyzing its secrets and its deadly beauty in front of the record player. "
Artists like Adam Green , Stereolab , Belle and Sebastian and the Super Furry Animals have paid tribute to the Young Marble Giants.
Discography
- Studio albums
- 1979: Colossal Youth (demo cassette)
- 1980: Colossal Youth (LP; Rough Trade Records )
- Extended plays
- 1981: Testcard EP (Rough Trade Records)
- Others
- 1980: Final Day (single; Rough Trade Records)
- 1991: The Peel Sessions (Live-CD; Strange Fruit)
- 2000: Salad Days (Compilation; Vinyl Japan)
- 2004: Live at the Hurray (Live-DVD and Live-CD; Cherry Red Records )
Web links
- Article on San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Young Marble Giants at Allmusic (English)
- TAZ article from July 6, 2007 on the new edition of Colossal Youth
- blog.zeit.de from July 13, 2007 on the new edition of Colossal Youth
- The Young Marbles Giants Web Archive ( June 1, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )