The Bluetones

The Bluetones were an English indie  rock band, formed in Hounslow, Greater London, in 1993. The band's associates were Mark Morriss on vocals, Adam Devlin on guitar, Scott Morriss on bass guitar, and Eds Chesters on drums. A fifth member, Richard Payne, came on lath amid 1998 and 2002. The bandage was originally alleged "The Bottlegarden".

The band's better hit, "Slight Return", was appear in 1996. They accept accomplished thirteenTop 40 singles and three Top 10 albums in the UK charts.

The Bluetones' bartering success waned afterwards the abatement of the Britpop movement, yet they connected to bout and absolution new annal and were accordingly generally labelled as "Britpop survivors".

The band's final anthology A New Athens was appear on 31 May 2010.

The bandage breach on 1 October 2011 afterward a adieu bout which concluded with a concert in Osaka, Japan.

History

After the absolution of two singles on Fierce Panda Records, the bandage active to A&M Annal and appear Expecting to Fly on their own sublabel Superior Quality Recordings. The anthology entered the UK Albums Blueprint at amount one, and featured the singles "Bluetonic" and "Slight Return", with the closing getting baffled to amount one by one-hit-wonders Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman". Afterward the touring and promotional duties for Expecting to Fly, the bandage appear stand-alone individual "Marblehead Johnson" to arch the gap amid albums.

The additional album, Return To The Endure Adventitious Saloon, was appear in 1998. While declining to accomplish the bartering success of their debut, it did spawn hits in the anatomy of "Solomon Bites the Worm" and "If...".

Whilst abounding of their mid 1990s aeon had disbanded by 2000, The Bluetones appear their third album, Science & Nature, which afresh accomplished the Top 10 and featured the hit singles "Keep the Home Fires Burning" and "Autophilia".

After absolution a best-of anthology in 2002, the bandage followed up with Luxembourg, an anthology which accustomed alloyed reviews.

A three-album accord was active in backward 2005 with the Cooking Vinyl almanac label, promptly followed by the bound absolution of E.P.Serenity Now and a abounding UK tour.

In aboriginal 2006, Universal issued a absolute box set of all The Bluetones singles and B-sides appear amid 1995 and 2003, A Rough Outline.

A single, advantaged "My Neighbour's House", was appear in the UK on 18 September 2006. The individual was taken from their self-titled album, which was appear on 9 October that year. It bootless to blueprint in the UK Albums Blueprint afterwards its aboriginal anniversary on sale. The anthology was aswell appear in the US, the aboriginal such accident back their debut. Although no acumen was cited, on 1 October 2006, it was appear that a planned nine-date bout of North America and Australia had been scrapped. However, on 1 November 2006, the bandage began a month-long bout of Europe in abutment of their new release, including two sold-out nights at Glasgow's King Tuts.

In February 2007, the bandage appear BBC Radio Sessions absolute advance recorded for the BBC amid 1994 and 2000. This was followed in June with their aboriginal abounding reside album, Once Aloft a Time in West Twelve, recorded at the Shepherds Bush Empire on 18 November 2005, and was followed on 29 October 2007, by a reside DVD of the aforementioned concert beneath the appellation Beat about the Bush. 2007 aswell saw the absolution of a accumulation anthology of aboriginal audience recordings, advantaged The Aboriginal Garage Years. They aswell appear a DVD beneath the appellation Blue Movies.

In January 2008, the bandage began a mini-tour of Scotland, arena 5 cities (Stirling, Dunfermline, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh) in as abounding nights. In May 2008 a ten-date bout covered Cambridge, Whitehaven, Sheffield, Newcastle aloft Tyne, Birmingham, London,Bristol, Manchester and Darwen, including one of the endure few concerts at the Astoria. They aswell played a appearance with Brit-pop rivalsDodgy on 17 May 2009, at a abstruse London venue, to account the homelessness alms Crisis, as allotment of the charity's 'Hidden Gigs' attack adjoin hidden homelessness.

In December 2008, the bandage boarded on a five-date tour, demography in Lincoln, Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham. The bout saw them arena their admission album, Expecting to Fly, in full. Some added dates were afterwards appear for February and March 2009.

On 31 May 2010, the bandage appear an anthology alleged A New Athens. Despite abundantly absolute reviews by admirers and critics alike, the anthology bootless to blueprint in the UK Albums Chart.

The song "Sleazy Bed Track" from the 1998 anthology Return To The Endure Adventitious Saloon was featured in the accepted 2010 blur Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and aswell included on the soundtrack.

On 28 March, the bandage appear they would breach afterwards a adieu bout in September 2011, with a bulletin from frontman Mark Morriss adage "After 17 years and 6 albums, The Bluetones accept absitively that the time has accustomed to alarm it a day and move on to added challenges. Before dematerialization always though, we will be branch out for one endure tour, as a adventitious to say adieu and acknowledge you to all the admirers that accept abiding us over these years, with a career-spanning Greatest Hits/Best Of... appearance set of songs. It's gonna be emotional."

Studio albums

·        Expecting to Fly (1996) No. 1 UK

·        Return to the Endure Adventitious Saloon (1998) No. 10 UK

·        Science & Nature (2000) No. 7 UK

·        Luxembourg (2003) No. 49 UK

·        The Bluetones (2006) No. 100 UK

·        A New Athens (2010) No. 21 Indie

EPs

·        A Bluetones Companion (1995, Japan only)

·        Mudslide (2000)

·        Serenity Now (2005, mail-order-only release)

·        Compilation albums

·        Are You Blind? (2000, bound copy promotional CD)

·        The Singles (2002) No. 14 UK

·        A Rough Outline: The Singles & B-Sides 95–03 (2006) No. 156

·        The Aboriginal Garage Years (2007)

·        Collection (2008)

·        Live albums

·        BBC Radio Sessions (2007) No. 164 UK

·        Once Aloft a Time in West Twelve (2007)

Singles

All blueprint positions are for the UK Singles Chart:

·        "Slight Return/The Fountainhead" (1995) bound copy 7"

·        "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?" (1995) No. 31

·        "Bluetonic" (1995) No. 19

·        "Slight Return" (re-issue) (1996) No. 2

·        "Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock" (1996) No. 7

·        "Marblehead Johnson" (1996) No. 7

·        "Solomon Bites the Worm" (1998) No. 10

·        "If..." (1998) No. 13

·        "Sleazy Bed Track" (1998) No. 35

·        "4-Day Weekend" (1998, mail-order-only release)

·        "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (2000) No. 13

·        "Autophilia (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Car)" (2000) No. 18

·        "After Hours" (2002) No. 26

·        "Fast Boy/Liquid Lips" (2003) No. 25

·        "Never Going Nowhere" (2003) No. 40

·        "My Neighbour's House" (2006) No. 68

·        "Head on a Spike" (2006) No. 135

·        "Surrendered" (2007)

·        "Carry Me Home" (2010)

·        "Golden Soul" (2010) 

Video/DVD releases

·        Mondo Concerto (1997)

·        Blue Movies (2007)

·        Beat about the Bush (2007)

·        Expecting to Fly Reside (2009)

Television

They accept fabricated adornment appearances in the British ball shows Spaced, Little Britain and the Adam and Joe Show.