The Brilliant Corners
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The Brilliant Corners, a British twee-pop band from Bristol, England, recorded throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The group took their name from a Thelonious Monk jazz passage. The line-up included Davey Woodward (b. Avonmouth, Bristol, England; vocals, guitar), Chris Galvin (b. 1959, d. 22 December 1998; bass), Winston (percussion, backing vocals), Bob (drums) and Dan (occasional keyboards).
The band's early material was absorbed into the New Musical Express' C86 phenomenon, and comparisons to other "shambling" bands became a near-permanent albatross around their necks. Their own SS20 label was home to their first three singles and mini-album Growing Up Absurd. In March 1988 the band set up their own label McQueen, and released the definitive Somebody Up There Likes Me. Woodward and Galvin formed the Experimental Pop Band in 1995. Galvin died from cancer in 1998.
[edit] Albums
- Growing Up Absurd mini-album (SS20 ,1985)
- What's In A Word (SS20, 1986)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (McQueen, 1988)
- Joyride (McQueen, 1989)
- Hooked (McQueen, 1990)
- A History Of White Trash (1993)
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