Bluetones — британская музыкальная группа, созданная в 1993 году в пригороде Лондона, городке Хаунслоу. Начинала музыкальную карьеру (первый год называясь «Ботлгарден») со стиля брит-поп, на годы расцвета которого в середине 90-х пришлись и самые большие успехи коллектива. Так их самый первый альбом «Expecting to Fly» середины 1996 года дебютировал в национальном хит-параде сразу же на первом месте. Особо успешной стала композиция «Slight Return», по которой многие и узнали о группе. В дальнейшем «Блютоунс» несколько подрастеряли популярность, а музыка стала тяготеть ближе к инди-роковому звучанию. Были выпущены ещё пять альбомов, последний из которых - A New Athens, вышел в 2010.
Состав
Mark Morriss − вокал
Adam Devlin − гитара
Scott Morriss − бас-гитара
Eds Chesters − ударные
Бывшие участники
Ричард Пейн (с 1998 по 2001) − клавишные, гитара
Дискография
«Expecting to Fly» − 1996
«Return To The Last Chance Saloon» − 1998
«Science & Nature» − 2000
«Luxembourg» − 2003
«Bluetones» − 2006
«A New Athens» − 2010 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
The Bluetones were an indie rock formed in Hounslow, England in 1994, featuring Mark Morriss (vocals, keyboards & occasional guitar), Adam Devlin (guitars), Scott Morriss (bass guitar & backing vocals), and Eds Chesters (drums)
Classed as a Britpop band, given that their appearance and initial huge success with songs such as Slight Return coincided synchronously with the Britpop explosion, their debut record Expecting To Fly appeared in 1996.
As time has gone by, the band have actually become a more conventional 'indie' band - whilst notching up hits such as Marblehead Johnson, If... and Keep the Home Fires Burning they have struggled to replicate the success of their debut. After seven singles reaching the UK Top 20 in total, they are now well out of the public eye, but unlike almost all of the fellow 'Britpop' bands, they continue to release new material and tour.
Following two further albums on major, A&M/Universal (1998's Return to the Last Chance Saloon and 2000's Science & Nature), they signed to the big indie, Cooking Vinyl in 2003 for Luxembourg and 2006's The Bluetones.
Vocalist Mark Morriss released a solo EP under the alias Fi-Lo Beddow in 2006, which eventually bloomed into a full solo record under his real name. Memory Muscle was released in June 2008, and received a surprising amount of critical acclaim, given the music press' frosty attitude to Bluetones material. It included new versions of the songs which made up the Fi-Lo Beddow EP, and featured strings arrnaged by film score composer David Arnold.
The band released their final album, A New Athens, in 2010, and completed their farewell tour in September 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.