Line-up and Artists: Echo & The Bunnymen
Echo & The Bunnymen played on Saturday. Check our line-up & artists section to find out which stage and who else played.
More Glasto proof that some bands are built to last. Ian McCulloch's psychedelic new wavers have been around in one form or another since 1978 and have influenced a whole generation of shoe-gazing serious young bands with their combination of primal guitar, pulsating bass and Morrison-esque pleadings!
Originally part of the seminal Liverpool post punk scene, based at the legendary Eric's club, they were contemporaries of Julian Cope's Teardrop Explodes, and managed by future KLF mainman, Bill Drummond. No stranger to the charts, they became notorious for touring the northern isles of Scotland, making videos in Iceland, having a drummer who lived life at a furious pace, and their lead singer's big hair and raincoat.
Falling apart in 1988, they were back in the charts by 1996, were featured on the soundtrack to Donnie Darko and have now been acknowledged as a major influence on a host of young bands, including Coldplay. Expect all the hits and a few Velvets and Doors references too!
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Comments on Echo & The Bunnymen
Who?
Patrick
Why Echo and the Bunnymen are not the biggest band on the planet deserves a feature length Rough Justice documentary. Their later albums are, almost unbelievably for a band of their vintage, every bit as wonderful as their earlier work- a testament to the consistent, enduring genius of Messrs McCullough and Sergeant, rock's finest ever double act,
Oscar, Southampton
I am sorry to disagree with your comments, but I think they are not built to last. I was looking forward to hearing them (as I remember them from the Punk era & really liked them). owever, Ian McCulloch has just lost it. The backing music was great, but his rendition was apalling!
A Haines, Leicester
They were and are absolutely awful.
pretentious, self-indulgent, student rock played by men old enough to know better.
Ian Mcculloch, get yourself a real job.
Nick Beverley
Who??? Whoever wrote this needs to get themselves a good rockography, have a good read and then come back to listen to rock n roll.... they were and are fantastic.........
Rob. London
Anyone who comes on stage and makes out his debts to be more important than those of the third world gets no respect from me, music wasnt much better either
Ed, Bristol
Sounds alright to me - Mac in fine voice!
Göteborg
Sounds bloody good to me...In rare and influential form.
Jeffers Liverpool
brilliant band
dan, london
This is one of the most influential and underrated bands ever to exist. Just listen to their first four albums, because there has been nothing produced by anyone since. Even Coldplay are name checking them now, while even the great U2 have acknowledged their influence. Not bad for a "student rock" band. What's more, they are still going strong after 25 years!!
Roger
MCCULLOCH HAS, IS , AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UP HIS OWN BACKSIDE.
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