|
Rooney were a British lo-fi band, that released three albums between 1998 and 2000. == History == Artist Paul Rooney recorded the first Rooney EP (this is not the US band of the same name), ''Got Up Late'', in October 1997 in Newcastle-under-Lyme,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Situations : Atmosphere; the work of Paul Rooney : Claire Doherty )〕 using a mini-disc four-track recorder with Paul Rooney on all instruments and vocals. Initially only five copies were self-released on Common Culture Records. The lo-fi music incorporated sometimes humorous — but often unsettling — spoken-sung lyrics describing everyday, mundane activities and observations, an approach which was consistent across all Rooney releases.〔〔Bracewell, Michael. 'The Art of Paul Rooney', in Got Up Late the Other Day: Paul Rooney artist monograph. Firstsite, 2006.〕 BBC Radio 1's John Peel and BBC Radio Merseyside's Roger Hill played tracks from the record,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=playlists/1998/05 )〕 and from the subsequent EP ''Different Kinds of Road Signs''. The debut album ''Time on Their Hands'', released September 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rooney * - Time On Their Hands (CD, Album) at Discogs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Common Culture )〕 was distributed by Cargo Records (UK), and featured the tracks ''Went to Town'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rooney – Went to Town – Listen and discover music at Last.fm )〕 ''Into The Lens'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rooney – Into the Lens – Listen and discover music at Last.fm )〕 ''Throw Away'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=15th March, 1999 | Mixing It )〕 ''Touts'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=playlists/1998/06 )〕 ''Scratched'', ''Walked Round The Estate'', and ''Fountainbridge'' amongst others. The writer Michael Bracewell described the album thus: '... () ''Time on Their Hands'', 1998, by the group Rooney, the listener might be reminded of any and all of the following: Patrik Fitzgerald's dour requiem to hope, ''Tonight'', the later songs of Ivor Cutler, the Intense Emotion Society of middle period Dexy's Midnight Runners, the industrial melancholy of Throbbing Gristle's ''Twenty Jazz Funk Greats'' and the ambiguous intellectualism of The Television Personalities, notably their re-issue, ''...And Don't the Kids Just Love It''.'〔 The album was widely and favourably reviewed,〔Clark, Robert. 'Rooney Tunes'. ''The Guardian'' (The Guide). May 1999〕〔Bunn, Jonathan. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. ''Sleazenation'' magazine. Jan. 1999〕〔Mackintosh, David. 'Time on Your Hands COMCD009'. ''AN Magazine''. Nov. 1998〕〔Oxley, Steve. 'Sound Bites'. Interview with Paul Rooney. ''The Big Issue'' magazine. Nov. 1998〕〔Mason Neil. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. ''Melody Maker''. Oct. 1998〕 including notices by Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times,〔Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. ''The Sunday Times''. Oct. 1998〕 Tom Ridge of The Wire〔Ridge, Tom. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. ''The Wire'' magazine. Nov.1998〕 and Gary Valentine of Mojo magazine.〔Valentine, Gary. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. ''Mojo'' magazine. Nov. 1998〕 The continued support of John Peel earned a place for ''Went to Town'' at number 44 in John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rocklist.net...John Peel's Festive 50's - 1977 - 2003 ..... )〕 and a Rooney Peel session in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rooney (1999) | Peel Sessions )〕 The album received extensive airplay, including BBC Radio 3's ''Mixing It''.〔 By 1999 Rooney had become a band with new members Colin Cromer and Half Man Half Biscuit/Jegsy Dodd and the Sons of Harry Cross ex-member Ian S Jackson (some of the final performances included Paul Rafferty, who was later a member of Hot Club de Paris), and were operating out of Liverpool, intermittently gigging at venues such as The Dublin Castle, London, and The Briton's Protection, Manchester. As well as conventional gigs the band appeared in events at art venues〔Briers, David. ‘Small Battles’. Art Monthly. Nov. 2000〕 — Ormeau Baths, Belfast; Grizedale Arts, Cumbria;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grizedale Arts: Paul Rooney )〕 the ''My Eye Hurts'' project at Green Room, Manchester and Thread Waxing Space, New York〔Parker, Graham. 'My Eye Hurts'. ''Art Monthly''. Oct. 1999〕 — and undertook a series of collaborative 'variety' performances involving the band itself, choirs and other performers.〔http://cubittartists.org.uk/2002/06/08/nwra-variety-night/〕 The second Rooney album ''On Fading Out'' was released in 1999,〔Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, On Fading Out'. ''The Sunday Times''. April 2000〕〔Beasley, Mark. 'Rooney'. Untitled magazine. Spring 2000〕〔McGill, Hannah. 'Rooney, On Fading Out'.'' The List'' (Scotland). Oct. 1999〕 and the project ostensibly ended with the third and final album, ''On the Closed Circuit'', in November 2000,〔Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, On the Closed Circuit'. ''The Sunday Times''. Dec. 2000〕 though gigs continued sporadically until late 2002.〔 In the years that followed Paul Rooney referred to the history (real and fictionalized) of the band in a number of his artworks, references which usually centred on singer Dermot Bucknall from the pre-1997 period of the band.〔http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/purescreen-9-purescreen-dvd-01-launch-party-screening/〕〔http://akermandaly.com/titles-2/dust-stories/〕 In 2006 comedian and writer Stewart Lee curated the Rooney track ''Into the Lens'' for the CD/book ''The Topography of Chance'', which also included Mark E Smith, Derek Bailey and Simon Munnery. In 2014 the three Rooney albums where made available for the first time on iTunes, Spotify and other MP3 music platforms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rooney (UK band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|