The Coral have been quiet as a band since they released Butterfly House in 2010. Unreleased material appeared at the end of 2014 with the eerie and poetic, The Curse Of Love but although there has been no new material from the band, the last five years has been productive for individual members. The Skelly […]
Sundowners are a five-piece Psychedelic Folk band from The Wirral starring Niamh Rowe (vocals & guitar) Fiona Skelly (vocals & guitar) Alfie Skelly (lead guitar) Tim Cunningham (bass & backing vocals) Jim Sharrock (drums). The band releases their debut album on February 9th on Skeleton Key Records. Alfie and Fiona are kid brother and sister of Ian and James from The Coral (Skeleton Key is […]
The Wirral penninsula is a piece of land that’s wedged between two rivers that separate North Wales and Liverpool. On the left the River Dee on the right the River Mersey – this is where I grew up as a teenager in an inconsequential, oddly named village called Thingwall – a stone’s throw from Liverpool. […]
A short video for the, A Leave Taking soundtrack EP by Bill Ryder-Jones, ex lead guitarist with Hoylake/West Kirby’s The Coral. Hailing from The Wirral (my part of the world) Ryder-Jones has found a burgeoning talent for writing evocative instrumental pieces. He began work on the project in 2009 and it was released in 2011 […]
This debut, largely instrumental album recorded mostly with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, came as a complete surprise to those that knew Ryder-Jones as the lead guitarist in The Coral. He left the band in 2008 after 12 years and his first release A Leave Taking, a four track soundtrack to a short film was composed in […]