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Alex Paterson began his music career in the early 1980s as a roadie for the post-punk rock band Killing Joke, for whom his childhood friend [5] [6] Martin "Youth" Glover played bass. [7] Having left Killing Joke's employ, in 1986 Paterson became an A&R man.
Metallic Spheres is the tenth studio album by the ambient techno group the Orb, released in October 2010. It features the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and the Killing Joke bassist Youth. [3] It spent three weeks on the UK charts, reaching number 12. [4]
Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...
He attended private boarding school Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire, where he met Alex Paterson, [1] who would become a roadie for Glover's band Killing Joke, and later founder of the Orb. Naming himself Youth after the roots reggae chanter Big Youth, in 1977 he joined punk rock band the Rage, who toured with the Adverts.
The Orb's third studio album Orbus Terrarum was released in April 1995, charting at number twenty in the UK and producing the single "Oxbow Lakes". [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Orblivion followed in February 1997 and peaked at number nineteen in the United Kingdom; it also became the group's first album to chart in the United States, peaking at number 174 on ...
Water Tower, formerly known as The Water Tower Bucket Boys and Water Tower String Band, is an American bluegrass, old time, and punk band from Los Angeles, California.The band was originally formed in Portland, Oregon in 2005 by Kenny Feinstein (guitar, lead vocals) and his neighbor, Josh Rabie (fiddle).
The studio, coined "The Mill", was refurbished from an old water mill. By 1993, Jurassic Shift album reached the Top 20 of the UK Albums Chart and No. 1 in the UK Indie Chart, spending a total of three months in the charts. [11] The band has gone through myriad line-up changes, with Ed Wynne being the only constant presence since the beginning.
Epitaph is a German rock band, formed in Dortmund in 1969. Playing initially what Allmusic described as "post-psych progressive rock, spiced with occasional jazz accents and widespread twin-guitar harmonies," [1] in 1973 they started shifting towards more straightforward hard rock (later heavy metal) stylings and, having released six studio albums, disbanded in 1982.