Eagulls | fr

THEY’RE A BIG BAND. Not Count Basie big. More like big heart and big ideas. Big emotion and big gestures. Big-time intensity and, most importantly, a big-ass sound. A big mixture of rock and soul. Big ambition, too. Progression, what with its tendency to offer no guaranteed returns, is rare in today’s world. Rarity makes paying witness to an artistic arc spanning several albums during which a band is allowed to grow into its ambitions a real treat. That’s why the Damn Seagulls, from Helsinki, Finland, make heads turn. After a mission statement of a first album and a prodigious...

Leeds punk five piece Eagulls was formed in 2011 by Mark Goldsworthy and drummer Henry Ruddel. The lineup was completed by Liam Matthews on guitar, Tom Kelly on bass and George Mitchell on vocals. Their debut single was released on NotEven Records (Moshi Moshi), “Council Flat Blues", followed by "EP" (Seaxbeat Records / Deranged Records) in 2012. “Nerve Endings”, their first single for Brooklyn's Partisan Records was backed by a version of Killing Joke’s ‘Requiem’ in 2013. Their eponymous album "Eagulls" was released in March 2014. http://eagulls.co.uk .

A Flock Of Seagulls est un groupe anglais (Liverpool) de musique New Wave ayant connu le succès au début des années 1980 notamment avec les titres I ran, Whishing et The more you live, the more you love bien classés dans les charts anglais, allemands et américains. Le chanteur, Mike Score (un ancien coiffeur), tout comme Limahl du groupe Kajagoogoo, avait une coupe de cheveux très tendance à l'époque. La coupe de cheveux de Mike Score fut mentionnée, copiée, parodiée plusieurs fois dans les médias, notamment dans les sitcoms américaines comme Friends et That 70's show. On y fait aussi...

There are at least two groups called The Seagulls: 1. The Seagulls are an acoustic rock duo from Monterey, California. The group comprises Iapetus "Larson" Galt and Matthew "Buchholtz" Buchholtz. The two met at a secret government facility in Monterey and became friends after each discovered the others interest in The Moldy Peaches and Tom Waits. Almost two years later, the two moved to the Sandwich Islands and began playing what they call "revolution music," singing songs about Jesus Christ and the government into discount recording equipment from Radio Shack. Their newest album - described by the band as "a...