David Balfe
Musician
The KLF...never been pranksters." At the time of The KLF's retirement announcement, Drummond's old friend and colleague David Balfe said of Drummond's KLF career that "the path he's trodde is a more artistic one than mine. I know that deep down I like... In this article: The KLF, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Illuminatus, What Time Is Love?, NME, Last Train to Trancentral, BRIT Awards, United Kingdom, and K Foundation |
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Wikipedia | August 07, 2009
From Y to Z and Never Again
...seminal punk band Big in Japan. It includes four out of their six recorded songs and is most notable for being the first release on Zoo Records, the label created by band members Bill Drummond and David Balfe. It was also one of the first...
In this article: From Y to Z and Never Again, Bill Drummond, Zoo Records, The Teardrop Explodes, Big in Japan, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ian Broudie, Dalek I Love You, and Liverpool
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The Puppet
...of the UK release. The single failed to make the UK Singles Chart. The single was produced by Bill Drummond and David Balfe although they were credited as The Chameleons. The b-side, "Do It Clean", has become a popular track with both the...
In this article: Echo & the Bunnymen, Bill Drummond, Crocodiles, A Promise, The Puppet, The Killing Moon, UK, and U.S.
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Crocodiles (album)
...debut album. Despite talk of the American singer Del Shannon being asked to produce the album, it was produced by the band's manager Bill Drummond and his business partner and The Teardrop Explodes keyboard player David Balfe. The recording...
In this article: Crocodiles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ian McCulloch, Rescue, The Pictures on My Wall, Pete de Freitas, NME, Simon Reynolds, Les Pattinson, and United Kingdom
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Zoo Records
...over the course of a year by Balfe and Drummond, based on Lartey's holiday in Tokyo two years earlier. Lartey went to art school, while Balfe and Drummond began to work with The Teardrop Explodes, as keyboardist and manager, respectively.
In this article: Bill Drummond, Zoo Records, The Teardrop Explodes, Liverpool, Big in Japan, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fire Escape in the Sky, and Lake Placid
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The Wild Swans (band)
...two remixes of the track were done; the radical "St. Petersburg Mix" (remixed by Paul Simpson's old Zoo Records bosses Dave Balfe and Bill Drummond) and a slightly remixed single version, apparently done by Drummond on his own. The "St....
In this article: The Wild Swans, Paul Simpson, Bill Drummond, Sire Records, Ged Quinn, Liverpool, Echo & the Bunnymen, English Electric Lightning, and The Teardrop Explodes
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Heaven Up Here
...on their second album, Heaven Up Here. Following musical differences between the band and Crocodiles producers Bill Drummond and David Balfe, Hugh Jones was brought in to produce Heaven Up Here. Jones had previously engineered Crocodiles...
In this article: Heaven Up Here, Echo & the Bunnymen, Simon Reynolds, Ian McCulloch, Crocodiles, NME, Hugh Jones, Bill Drummond, Joy Division, and A Promise
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David Balfe
...The KLF's publishing, through the Drummond connection. Balfe decided to sell the Food label to EMI in 1994, and retire to the country - inspiring Damon Albarn to pen "Country House". After leaving the music industry for two years, Balfe...
In this article: The Teardrop Explodes, Bill Drummond, Blur, Food, Country House, Echo & the Bunnymen, EMI, University of Westminster, and University of Bedfordshire
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David Balfe (c.1958-) is most notable for playing keyboards with The Teardrop Explodes, founding the Zoo and Food record labels, signing Blur and for being the subject of their No.1 hit - "Country House".
He grew up in the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, being a member of several Liverpool bands in the late 1970s, including Big in Japan, Dalek I Love You and The Teardrop Explodes. He also played on and co-produced the first Echo & The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes albums.
Balfe and Bill Drummond founded the Zoo record label in 1978 in order to release Big in Japan's EP From Y To Z and Never Again. The label went on to release early work from The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen. Balfe and Drummond also did production work under the name of The Chameleons, and released the seminal electro-pop singles "Touch" & "The Lonely Spy" - credited to Lori and The Chameleons - on the Zoo label, later licensed to Sire/Korova.
Balfe was originally The Teardrop Explodes' label-head, manager and producer, but on the departure of their original keyboard-player, Paul Simpson, Balfe stepped in for what turned into four years in and out of the band, famously conflicting a great deal with their singer Julian Cope.
After The Teardrop Explodes disbanded in 1983, Balfe moved to London where, after managing Strawberry Switchblade & Brilliant, he founded the Food record label. They signed Voice of the Beehive, Zodiac Mindwarp (both of whom Balfe went on to manage for many years), Crazyhead, Diesel Park West and others before hitting it big with Jesus Jones, and even bigger with Blur.
Balfe decided to sell the Food label to EMI in 1994, quit the rat-race and retire to the country - inspiring Damon Albarn to pen Country House.
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