McCarthy

...France, and soon moved to London to be with Gane and to pursue her career. She had contributed vocals to McCarthy's third and final album. The band broke up in 1990 and she and Gane immediately formed Stereolab. For the first incarnation of...

In this article: Laetitia Sadier, Monade, Tim Gane, Mary Hansen, Mouse on Mars, Trademark, Pram, Martin Kean, and To the End

...during 1986 they recorded the Strike Up Matches EP released as a 500 only pressing on the Lenin and McCarthy imprint that year . By 1987, the band had renamed themselves East Village and relocated to London where they recorded two EPs for...

In this article: East Village, Heavenly, Heavenly Recordings, and Saint Etienne

...and guitar) and Tim Gane (lead guitar) with John Williamson (bass guitar) and Gary Baker (drums). Lætitia Sadier would later join the band on vocals on their third studio album Banking, Violence And The Inner Life Today. They mixed a...

In this article: Tim Gane, John Williamson, Manic Street Preachers, The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth, Red Sleeping Beauty, Frans Hals, and Know Your Enemy

"Frans Hals" was a single by McCarthy released in March 1987 their last on Pink Label. The b-sides were "The Fall", "The Fall (remix)" and "Kill Kill Kill Kill" and "Frans Hals (version)". The single is not on any of the bands three studio...

In this article: Frans Hals and A La Guillotine

I Am A Wallet was the first album by the band McCarthy , released in November 1987. After recording three singles, In Purgatory, Red Sleeping Beauty and Frans Hals , the first album by McCarthy demonstrates three-chord guitar pop...

In this article: I Am a Wallet, Nicky Wire, Purgatory, Red Sleeping Beauty, Frans Hals, Communist manifesto, Margaret Thatcher, James Dean Bradfield, and Manic Street Preachers

That's All Very Well But... is a best of compilation of the band McCarthy . Initially planned for release in 1991 but shelved after the Midnight Music label went bankrupt. It finally surfaced in 1996 on Cherry Red who took over the rights...

In this article: That's All Very Well But..., The Wolfhounds, Red Sleeping Beauty, Keep An Open Mind Or Else, This Nelson Rockefeller, Should The Bible Be Banned, Cherry Red, The Snake Corps, and Sad Lovers & Giants

Malcolm Eden (b. 01 September 1963, Ilford, Essex, England) was the vocalist and guitarist in the Indie pop group McCarthy between 1985 and 1990. Eden wrote the far left leaning lyrics of the band. Eden cited the election of Margaret...

In this article: Margaret Thatcher, Frans Hals, and Where You Are

...some of the most adept left-wing lyrics on offer. Never a band to indulge in political airheadedness, on "Use a Bank I'd Rather Die" McCarthy pours scorn on hippie idealism, whereas new age beliefs are rounded upon in "The Well-Fed Point...

In this article: Use a Bank I'd Rather Die McCarthy, Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today, Trademark, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Tim Gane, Margaret Thatcher, Laetitia Sadier, and Ronald Reagan

"Should The Bible Be Banned" was the sixth single by McCarthy . Like many of the band's singles it did not appear on any of the band's studio albums. The b-sides were "St. Francis Amongst The Mortals" and "We Are All Bourgeois Now". The...

In this article: Should The Bible Be Banned and Cain and Abel

...I just had this total inability to carry on writing in the former (style). Back in 1990, I finished one band, a band I was in before (McCarthy), and I spent about a year trying to think of something. I didn't want just want to do more...

In this article: Tim Gane, Wired.com, Berlin, Radiohead, Barry Burns, Manhattan, New York, and Mars Audiac Quintet