Catherine Wheel formed in 1990, comprising singer/guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes, and drummer Neil Sims. Hawes had previously played in a Joy Division-influenced band called Eternal. They took their moniker from the firework known as the Catherine wheel, which in turn had taken its name from the medieval torture device of the same name. The band's debut albu...
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If you ever find the fastest way out of town, whistle-stop breakfast's on me. The hours, however, shall be divided equitably by playlist and be sure to pick out songs like you're begging to stay breathing. Bigger baggage gets first dibs."Don't ask me what it is or where to go because I don't know."If you ever have the loudest song to which to sing along, we'll split gas money. Rip through this ...
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Rollingstone.com named this the best album of 1997, and the Big Takeover Magazine, largely on the strength of this album, recently named Catherine Wheel as the best band of the 90's (over Radiohead). The real tragedy, however, is that due to record company hassles, this album was never properly promoted and is now out of print in the US. While C/W went on to release another cd, the less inspir...
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Fron their 1995 release Happy Days, I have always been enamored with this album. One of the tracks which belies the album title, I don't know why I'm drawn to songs such as this - oh wait a minute - never mind
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I haven't got anything grand to report... just a quick hey & a hope you are all doing better than this Lizzieness. I've been laid up at home, in bed for the past two weeks - gone from severe sinus infection to severe fungal infection with headaches & tummyaches to boot. I will be back to rock another day... just not today. I still owe a loverly post re London - don't think I've forgotten, I'...
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Remember when "Black Metallic" came out, and people thought Catherine Wheel was a shoegaze band? Whoops.
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Frolicking around Europe for a combination of work and pleasure is fun, but when it comes to my next trip, the flip side is now clear. I'll miss all of these:9/17 The New Pornographers (seen them twice though)9/19 Cat Power9/20 Editors9/21-22 Amy Winehouse (she might cancel of course)9/23-27 Morrissey9/28 Klaxons9/29 The National10/5 Nick Lowe10/8 TurbonegroI'd definitely have seen this again:O...
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my musical mind is like a maze of random notes, chords and lyrical refrains. i start with something that is often random and often it twists and turns and winds itself into something else, and then another something, and then upside down and around again. tanya donelly's acrobat led me to catherine wheel's sun staring that led to this song that always gives me those surface of the skin and down...
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I know right off when I hear a song if I get the chills then the song is with me forever.(and forever is a very long time,thank you Prince).The crashing jangy guitars get me everytime. Play it loud! Play it proud!Enjoy
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Now who could it be? Download | Black Metallic by Catherine Wheel It's Ryan Gosling! SEXY BACK A solo Ryan Gosling walks around with a BIG HOLE in the back of his "Thrasher" t-shirt while out and about in Los Angeles on Thursday. Recent rumors state that Ryan was passed up as the Green Lantern in the upcoming superhero flick. Producers extended the offer to Gone Baby Gone st...
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Wow, I just posted a little "blast from the past" on Anna's MOG, and it got me thinking about my old favorite (aw hell, still high up there) band, Catherine Wheel. I watched a movie a few months back called "Millions," which, among other things was about a young boy who was obsessed with saints. One day in school, he spoke of St. Catherine of Alexandria. I'm not Catholic, so I knew nothing of...
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yup when i first moved to atlanta georgia to form my first band, i couldn't help but notice that, after being in boston, where the clubs were dives and people dressed in black, that southerners will go on stage in khaki shorts and tank tops in a mini mall record store - and call it a 'gig.' It was daunting. I still had my black dyed hair, black jeans, hot clothes, and in hot I mean uncomfortabl...
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Black Metallic, the single of The Catherine Wheel’s Ferment album, peaked at number nine on the Billboard Modern Rock charts back in 1992. Today, The Catherine Wheel is no longer, but lead singer Rob Dickinson still plays their songs solo (the download is Rob’s acoustic version). He was recently signed to Universal Music Canada, and the [...]
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