Revolution By Night
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| Revolution By Night | ||
|---|---|---|
| Background information | ||
| Also known as | RBN | |
| Genre(s) | EBM, Futurepop, Synthpop | |
| Instrument(s) | Synthesizer | |
| Years active | 1994-present | |
| Members | ||
| Steve Weeks, Bryon Adamson, Phil Eaton | ||
| Former members | ||
| Penny Humphreys (still appears on occasion) | ||
Revolution By Night are an electronic music band based in London, UK. They are often referred to as 'RBN'. The only continuous members are Steve Weeks (vocals) and Bryon Adamson (originally bass, then guitar and finally keyboards).
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[edit] Revolution By Night Mk 1 - 1994 to 1999
The original Revolution By Night was no more than a continuation of the gothic rock band Restoration II, playing material heavily influenced by Fields of the Nephilim and The Sisters of Mercy. The early Revolution By Night recorded a full length album - 'Breathe' - with guitarist Eric Gandoin in 1994, which was released the following year. Playing a very different style of music from their "RBN" output of recent years, in terms of both instrumentation and vocal style, pre-2000 Revolution By Night should be considered a different band entirely. Whilst continuing to play live dates during the remainder of the 1990s with a number of different guitarists, no further releases followed other than a few tracks on compilation albums, and the group disbanded in 1999.
[edit] RBN (a.k.a. Revolution By Night Mk 2) - 2000 to Present
In November 1999 Steve Weeks began working on new songs using only synths, and Bryon Adamson soon decided to continue working with Steve, and moved from bass guitar to keyboards. The duo pursued an increased interest in an electronic approach, and resurfaced at the following year’s Wave Gotik Treffen festival in Leipzig, playing a synthesiser heavy set featuring the Weeks written anthem 'Faithless'. The following year's support slot to Funker Vogt in London, and further appearances at the Dark Jubilee and InFest festivals in 2002, saw the duo further establish their synth-pop credentials. By the end of that year the band, referring increasingly to themselves simply as RBN to distinguish them from the gothic stylings of "Revolution By Night", had expanded to a three-piece for live shows, enlisting the help of a succession of keyboard players.
In June 2003, the Faithless EP was released. Featuring remixes of the title track by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation and Tom Shear of Assemblage 23, the EP contained two other new songs, 'Schadenfreude' and 'Higher Ground (voxless)' and two reworked older songs. With the EP at #14 in the DAC (German Alternative Chart) and #3 in the Belgian Side-line chart, RBN took to the Agra Halle main stage at the Wave Gotik Treffen for the second time.
Other than appearances at Edinburgh’s Heart Of Darkness festival and Hannover’s Secret Garden festival in 2004, (the latter with The Cruxshadows, Mesh and Deine Lakaien), RBN spent most of the next two years writing and recording new material. Steve Weeks, through his Slimelight DJ sets, was able to test audience reactions with demo versions of RBN songs such as 'City Lights' and 'Machine Code’.
In 2006 the band have had their busiest yet, returning to the stage with a series of live dates. May’s support to Covenant and Pride & Fall on their Skyshaper UK tour was followed by sets at the Dark City festival in Edinburgh and the Summer Darkness festival in Utrecht. The band finished the year’s live dates with a sell-out show supporting Rotersand at London's Slimelight club, where Steve has been a resident DJ since 1995.
RBN's first full album is due in the first half of 2007, with the working title of 'Machine Code'.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Revolution By Night (Mk I)
- Breathe (1995, M&A Musicart)
[edit] RBN (Revolution By Night Mk II)
- Faithless EP (2003, Sonic-X)
- Zillo Club Hits 9 (2004, Zillo) - contains the track "Faithless (Ronan Harris remix)"
- Into The Darkness Vol. 1 DVD (2004, CrazyClips) - includes the video to "Schadenfreude"
- Machine Code (2006, 5-track Limited Edition Tour CD) - only available at RBN gigs
