Richard Searle
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Richard Searle
is the influential bass guitar player who's fast, fluid and creative style has helped shape the sound and success of bands such as Doctor and the Medics (Number one in 1986 with Spirit In The Sky), Corduroy (five studio albums with Acid Jazz Records) and Wet Dog (you tube hit with Polish Girls).
Richard a.k.a Dick Damage, has also appeared as a featured session player on several popular recordings including 'The Size Of It' by Australian rockers The Standing Eight Counts. And the Paul Weller penned 'Left Right And Centre' by Lord Large, featuring soul legend Dean Parrish.
Although his live performances are rare these days, Richard has occasionally surfaced to guest on stage with various artists such as The Freestylers, Soul Hooligan and Mother Earth.
Since leaving Acid Jazz band Corduroy in 2000, Richard has concentrated on a number of studio projects, co-producing retro party band Smashing Time, Sweet Willy and releasing the lo-fi concept album 'Perfect Crime' by Wet Dog, the group that he formed with Vom Ritchie from Die Toten Hosen and Anna Donarski from Fehlfarben.
Richard's is believed to be the figure behind the mysterious Bohemian Underground Movement, (B.U.M.), the umberella name used for various and mischievous pop art projects, notably The Woeful Tale Of Shakes Magoo by Groovy Ruben, Plump Funk by Plumpadelic and Raw by The Soldiers Of Soul, Videos of which can be found on you tube.
Sources. www.b-u-m.co.uk www.wet-dog.co.uk www.myspace.com/corduroyuk www.acidjazz.co.uk
Corduroy.
Corduroy were a four-piece acid jazz outfit based in London, formed around twins Ben Addison (drums/vocals) and Scott Addison (keyboards), who were previously in Sire Records act Boys Wonder (Scott had been guitarist with Boys Wonder, while Ben had been the lead vocalist).[1] Joining the twins in the band were Richard Searle and guitarist Simon Nelson-Smith. Richard Searle had been bass player with Doctor and the Medics, who topped the UK pop charts in 1986 with a cover version of "Spirit in the Sky". Searle had joined the Addison twins in the final incarnation of Boys Wonder before the band gradually evolved into Corduroy in 1991, initially forming for a one-off New Year's Eve party.
The self-dubbed "fabric four" primarily recorded in a "groovy film soundtrack" style and many of their tracks were instrumentals. On the release of their first album Dad Man Cat, Paul Moody wrote in the New Musical Express: “Whereas the rest of the Acid Jazz roster fidget around in a world of skinny ribbed roll-necks comparing sideburn growth, Corduroy manage to swagger through the same po-faced domain with a couldn’t-care-less braggadocio... Corduroy have got their collective tongue stuck firmly in someone else’s cheek here and it feels staggeringly good.”[2]
Releasing three eclectic albums on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz Records, they received heavy radio airplay for their single "Something In My Eye" in 1993, but national chart success evaded them, although several singles from their 1993 album High Havoc charted in the UK Top Ten Independent Charts.
They remained a very popular live attraction, particularly on the college circuit. They also gained a healthy following in Japan, making the first of several trips to the country in 1993, and the following year they recorded a live album, Quattro - Live In Japan. After leaving Acid Jazz Records they signed to Big Cat Records, releasing two further albums: The New You! (April 1997) and the Rob Playford-produced Clik! (August 1999), but were dropped shortly after, Corduroy to split in 2000.
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B.U.M.
The Bohemian Underground Movement is an umbrella organisation, believed to be the brain child of Richard Searle, bass player from Doctor and the Medics, Corduroy and Wet Dog,for his various and mischievous pop art projects. The first B.U.M track - I'm Afraid Of The Man In The Pasty Shop, was recordred, as a joke, entirely over the phone from Cornwall, then mixed in the studio later. It features on Acid Jazz Records compilation -The New Testament Of Folk. AJXCD163. The name came from writing BUM in the sand for purile and mischievous effect.
There have been several releases mostly through Acid Jazz Records.
Discography
Jazzlolly - Jazzlolly. Exile On Hammond St.Acid Jazz Records AJXCD158.And The Best Of Hammond Street. AJX203. Plumpadellic - Plump Funk. Totally Wired Vol3.Old School New Cool. AJXCD/LP152.And Totallt Rewired 2.AJX205D. Groovy Ruben - The Woeful Tale Of Shakes Magoo. Sugarlumps. AJXCD/LP161. Templar - Quarter To Now.Sugarlumps. AJXCD/LP161. Wicca's World - Psycles. The New Testament Of Folk.AJXCD163 & Welcome To The People Tree. People Tree Records.SEED01. The Jugs - I'm Afraid Of The Man In The Pasty Shop. The New Testament Of Folk.AJXCD163. Naked Cake - Nightclub Libel. Old School New Cool 2.AJXCD175. Wet Dog - Fancy You. Old School New Cool 2.AJXCD175 & Totally Rewired. AJX180D download only. WET DOG - Pefect Crime. Drumming Monkey Records DRUM02. The James Coburn Cool - Juicer. Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187. Flying Pudding - Watching The Machine. Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187. nut - The Beetle Makes Noise On Wet Grass. Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187. The Mauve(featuring Monique Maasen)- Safety Lite. Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187 & Welcome To The People Tree. People Tree Records.SEED01. Jenson Interceptor - Fetch The Stick. Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187. Kitchener - The Magic Loungabout.Sugarlumps 2.AJXCD/LP187.And Totally Rewired 2. AJX205D. Soldiers Of Soul - Raw. Hammond Street 3. AJXCD/LP195.And The Best Of Hammond Street.AJX203D. The Pyes - Toss & Pot. Hammond Street 3. AJXCD/LP195.The Best Of Hammond Street. AJX205D. And Totally Rewired 2.AJX205D.
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Wet Dog released a debut album through Drumming Monkey Records / Rough Trade in 2007. DRUMCD02. ............................................................................................
Information sourced from the Bohemian Underground Movement official web site. http://www.b-u-m.co.uk. The Acid Jazz official site. http://acidjazz.co.uk. Wet Dog official site. http://wet-dog.co.uk. And http://www.myspace.com/bohemianundergroundmovement
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WET DOG
Wet Dog is an international group featuring Stephen 'Vom' Ritchie from renowned German rockers Die Toten Hosen and Richard Searle from Acid Jazz band Corduroy and the Bohemian Underground Movement. Both Ritchie and Searle were original members of British chart-toppers Doctor and the Medics. Wet Dog also features Anna Donarski, who has played for Damo Suzuki from Can and German punk rock outfit Fehlfarben.
Fancy You, the first release by Wet Dog, appeared on an Acid Jazz Records compilation called Old School New Cool in 2005, and Totally Rewired a year later. The track was inspired by a scene from the film Get Carter, in which Michael Caine has phone sex with Britt Ekland.
The band's debut album Perfect Crime was released through Drumming Monkey Records in 2007, DRUM02. It featured 14 tracks, covering such styles as funk, punk, pop, rock and soul. A single was taken from the album - Heart.
Since the release of the debut album another track - Chemicals, has appeared on the Acid Jazz compliation Totally Rewired vol 2. AJX205D.
Sources. www.wet-dog.co.uk www.drumingmonkey.de www.myspace.com/wetdoguk .....................................................................................................
Acid Jazz Records.
Acid Jazz Records is a record label based in Bethnal Green, east London. It shares in common with labels such as Stax and Tamla Motown a musical genre type named after it. Radio and club DJ Ed Piller is credited with coining the phrase Acid Jazz in the late 1980s and formed the label with Giles Peterson.
The first single from Acid Jazz was Frederick Lies Still from Galliano and was followed by albums by individual bands such as the Brand New Heavies, New Jersey Kings, Mother Earth, the Sandals as well as the production of compilation albums such as the Totally Wired series, and special albums dedicated to jazz, dub or compilation albums with a focus on music emerging from a particular country (for example, Sweden). Acid Jazz as a label responded flexibly to developments occurring over the 1990s and released material covering jazz (Ed Jones, Ulf Sandberg), soul (Brand New Heavies, Rose Windross, D-Influence), jazz rap (Humble Souls, Sandals), retro-kitsch (Corduroy) and dub (Hazardous Dub Company). Despite releasing a number of Latin inspired albums, Snowboy produced a number of twelve inch singles reminiscent of 1970s soul, such as Lucky Fellow (with Noel Mckoy) and Girl Overboard (featuring Anna Ross).
More recently Lord Large have collaborated with northern soul singer Dean Parrish on the Paul Weller song Left Right and Centre. Featuring Steve Craddock on Guitar, from Ocean Colour Scene and Richard Searle, fromer bassist from Corduroy. Paul Weller also collaborated with Any Lewis on another Acid Jazz release called Are You Trying To Be Lonely? which reached the top 40 in the summer of 2007.
The label is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Ed Piller has a radio show on Q Radio called the Eddy Piller show..
Sources www.acidjazz.co.uk www.myspace.com/acidjazzrecords
