Starsailor
Starsailor is variously:
Starsailor (band)
Starsailor is an English post-Britpop band, formed in 2000. Since its formation the band has included guitarist and vocalist James Walsh, drummer Ben Byrne, bassist James Stelfox and keyboardist Barry Westhead.
The band have released four studio albums: Love Is Here (2001), Silence Is Easy (2003), On the Outside (2005) and All the Plans (2009), and have scored ten Top 40 hit singles in the UK. After the release of their most recent album, All the Plans, the band had entered into extended hiatus until 2014, during which they have been involved in individual projects.
Starsailor announced their reunion on 23 May 2014 and began performing worldwide.
History
Formation, signed by EMI (1999–2000)
Despite being known as a Wigan band, only one member of Starsailor is actually from the town. The band met at the Parsons Walk Campus of Wigan and Leigh College. Bassist James Stelfox and drummer Ben Byrne had been playing together in Warrington, Cheshire for a number of years. When their regular singer fell ill, they recruited young singer and songwriter James Walsh from a school choir. He was influenced by Jeff Buckley and his 1994 album Grace in his singing style. Comparing it to Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? album, which Walsh says sums up a unique moment, Grace captures every moment.
Starsailor (album)
Starsailor is a 1970 album by Tim Buckley (see 1970 in music), released on Herb Cohen's Straight Records label. It marks the moment Buckley's folk rock origins became invisible as he fully incorporated jazz rock and avant-garde styles into his music. Although it is often regarded as not being accessible to many people, it also contains his best known song "Song to the Siren". This more accessible song was written much earlier than Starsailor's newer material, originally in a more traditional folk arrangement, as shown on the later released compilation album Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology. Bunk Gardner, a former member of the Mothers of Invention, joined Buckley's normal band to record the album. Also, Buckley began working again with lyricist Larry Beckett, after a three-album absence.
Leontyne Price attended a concert in New York during the supporting tour and told Buckley, "Boy, I wish they were writing things like that for us opera singers," to which Buckley responded, "Well, do what I did; get your own band."
Starsailor
ALBUMS
- All the Plans released: 2009
- On the Outside released: 2005
- Silence Is Easy released: 2003
- Love Is Here released: 2001
- Morning Becomes Electic Session released:
Let It Shine
There were two girls coming back for me
Where my one true love should be
I was walking down the county line
Let it shine
Let it shine
Let it shine
Let it shine
I was born into a land of greed
I had everything I'd need
Then you told me I was something more
I'm not sure
I'm not sure
I'm not sure
I'm not sure
Woah
(Break)
She stole the summer rain from my window
He tore the house apart when she let him go
She found it in her heart to forgive him
Ain't there a life outside you're not livin'
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