The Coral

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The Coral
The Coral performing at the 2003 V Festival
The Coral performing at the 2003 V Festival
Background information
Origin Hoylake, England
Genre(s) Indie rock
Psych folk
Indie pop
Years active 1996–present
Label(s) Deltasonic
Website Official website
Members
James Skelly
Ian Skelly
Nick Power
Lee Southall
Paul Duffy
Former members
Bill Ryder-Jones

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool.

The band's music is a mixture of old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelica and folk with modern rock influences. The Coral have released five albums. Their self-titled debut album was nominated for the 2002 Mercury Music Prize and later voted the fourth best album of the year by NME Magazine. It was announced on the 9th January 2008 that Bill Ryder-Jones would be leaving, but the band would continue as a 5-piece.


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[edit] History

[edit] Formation

Meeting at Hilbre High School in West Kirby on the wirral, the seven friends would meet at each others' houses and the school music room where they would watch films, listen to music and play guitars. After leaving school they went on to jobs and university before quitting both to take up the band full time. The band was soon signed to Liverpool label Deltasonic. The band started as prominent members of the Liverpool music scene, playing many gigs around the city. The Coral's distinctive musical style has strongly influenced many other of the Liverpool-based label's acts, including The Zutons, The Dead 60s and The Basement.

[edit] The Coral

Hailed as the first English band of the "guitar group revival" the band released the critically acclaimed EPs Shadows Fall, The Oldest Path, and Skeleton Key in 2001. Their eponymous debut album The Coral, released in 2002, reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize the day after its release. A successful UK tour and festival slots followed along with the singles "Goodbye" reaching number twenty-one in the UK Top 40 and "Dreaming of You" reaching number thirteen.

[edit] Magic and Medicine

After a hectic year they took it easy with recording yet again another critically-acclaimed album Magic and Medicine in 2003 reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart, once more followed with UK, European, American and Japanese tours and a one-off festival Midsummer Nights Scream held on the New Brighton promenade and held an impressive line up of the then hottest up-and-coming bands. Singles from the album, "Don't Think You're the First", "Pass It On", "Secret Kiss" and "Bill McCai" reached number ten, number five, number twenty-five and number twenty-three on the UK Top 40 respectively.

[edit] The Invisible Invasion

In 2004 they began recording The Invisible Invasion but not before releasing Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker a limited-edition "mini album" getting to number five on the UK Albums Chart which was produced by Lightning Seeds singer/songwriter Ian Broudie (as were the first two albums), whilst Portishead's Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow were in charge of The Invisible Invasion.

In 2005, The Coral did UK, European, American and Japanese tours also releasing "In The Morning" which reached number six and "Something Inside of Me" reaching number forty-one on the UK Top 75.

[edit] Roots and Echoes

The Coral are set to tour with Arctic Monkeys during the summer festival gigs. The band released the single "Who's Gonna Find Me" on 30 July 2007 followed by the album Roots & Echoes on 6 August 2007.

The Coral kicked off BBC Electric Proms 07 on 24 October 2007 with "Who's Gonna Find Me". They were joined on stage by friend Noel Gallagher, who played lead guitar on their track In The Rain.

The Coral are planning on a move into movie soundtrack work, and have already created some film scores for their own movies. We're going into film scores, said Nick Power to BBC 6 Music. We're working on a few movies of our own first - do the soundtracks, maybe release them and get momentum for the films to be released. Everyone in the band is involved and we've done a few films with soundtracks already. They're horror movies, B movies, everything. I've always wanted to do them, we all love John Barry, James Bond themes, things like that.[1]

[edit] Discography

Further information: The Coral discography


[edit] External links

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The Coral
James Skelly • Ian Skelly • Nick Power • Lee Southall • Paul Duffy • Bill Ryder-Jones
Albums
EPs
"Shadows Fall" (2001) • "The Oldest Path" (2001) • "Skeleton Key" (2002)
Singles