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I’m seeing Echo & The Bunnymen tonight for the first time in about 13 years, part of their Songs To Learn & Sing greatest hits tour, so I’ll just leave this 1983 single from Porcupine right here, along with this piece on the origins and meaning on the song from Far Out which, while it […]
Just a quick one for today, in the form of the first complete live show of the year. It’s far from a professional video – no AI remastering here, no sir! – but the audio is surprisingly good and the front-row perspective, handheld handycam quality of the footage offers a compelling fly-on-the-wall quality to the […]
At a casual glance of their discography, you might think that Echo & The Bunnymen‘s cover of Television’s “Friction” was a live staple for the band in the ’80s – it certainly seems to appear on a lot of releases, both official and unofficial. But as it turns out, there seems to be only the […]
Well this turned into a bit of a time machine/rabbit hole. At the end of last year as part of their ongoing archive exhumations, Echo & The Bunnymen added this clip of Ian McCulloch playing “the greatest song ever written” solo, acoustic, backstage before a show. I was extra-excited to see that this was recorded […]
The first incarnation of Echo & The Bunnymen originally split in 1988 when Ian McCulloch left the band – the drama around Reverberation and Electrafixion are topics for another time – but original members McCulloch, Will Sargent, and Les Pattinson eventually found their way back together in 1997 with Evergreen. The late ’90s were not […]
Like all good, reasonable legacy acts, Echo & The Bunnymen have been doing some archive-diving the last little while and been posting live shows and performances on their YouTube channel (the one that says “Official”, the other one is apparently not official, hence it doesn’t say official). I’ll probably be raiding that for a while […]
Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant – a player who manages to be at the same time legendarily influential and criminally underrated – has been keeping himself busy through the pandemic promoting his memoirs Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen, which was released in the UK last July and […]
It didn’t make much/any noise at all, but I was pleased to hear this week that Echo & The Bunnymen were doing vinyl reissues of a couple of their 21st century releases – 2001’s Flowers and 2005’s Siberia – on October 1 courtesy of Demon Records, the first wax pressings of both since the limited […]
Germany’s Rockpalast programme really is the gift that keeps on giving. Their archive of live shows – or more specifically the ones that have made their way onto YouTube and remain there, rights be damned – is an astonishing time capsule that I’ll be happy to mine as long as I’m doing this. Today, a […]
It’s probably a sign of aging when one’s favourite song from Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 opus Ocean Rain transitions from the dramatic and brooding “Killing Moon” to the elegant and elegiac title track. I’m not saying I’m there now, but I’m not saying I’m not. There’s enough love in my heart for both tracks. […]
