Tag Archives: The Coral

The Sundowners

26/1/15 – Sundowners – Hummingbird/ Into The Light/ Medicine – 2014

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 Coral 2005 (2014 The Curse Of Love)

15/12/14 – The Coral – The Curse Of Love – 2014

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. […]

Bill Ryder-Jones If Artwork

2/4/14 – Bill Ryder-Jones – If… – 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 […]