
Going Modern
received 11.05
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Gothic
Royalty
Twenty years after hitting number one on the National Independent
chart with their album Futile Combat, Skeletal Family released
Sakura in August 2005.
Skeletal Family are best known as one of the
most influential groups of the 1980’s gothic era. They developed
a worldwide, all-ages fan base. The band’s debut single “Trees” gained
extensive airplay from BBC Radio One’s John Peel and made
an impressive and influential debut at London’s Fulham Greyhound
in April 1982.
A couple years later, at the request of Sisters of
Mercy frontman, Andrew Eldridge, Skeletal Family played on the
Sisters of Mercy Black October Tour in 1984 and also appeared with
Siouxie & The
Banshees, Killing Joke and the Mission. They made other Radio One
appearances, as well, for a total of five sessions with John Peel.
Cut
to 2005, and the release of Sakura, the band’s third
official release. Sakura is Japanese for cherry blossom – inviting
comparisons of a band emerging, new and revitalized or as a symbol
of the brief moment of beauty before reverting back into the “welcoming
darkness of Mother Earth”. Sakura features 12 new
tracks showing influences from bands as diverse as The Velvet Underground,
Devo, the Cramps and Duane Eddy! The lineup on the release is:
Claire BB (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitars), Roer “Trotwood” Nowell
(bass), Martin Henderson (drums) and Karl Heinz (Treated keyboards/sax).
The
band recently headlined New York’s Drop Dead Music Festival,
played various European dates and appeared at Leipzig’ Gotik-Treffen
- Europe’s largest Gothic/Alternative festival with an annual
attendance of 30,000 people.
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