Coast (folk rock band)

Last updated

Coast
Poyenberg18.jpg
Coast performing in Poyenberg, Germany in 2018.
Background information
Origin Southampton, Hampshire, UK
Genres Rock
Years active2007–present
LabelsRuabhal Records
Recart (Denmark)
MembersPaul Eastham
Chris Barnes
Finlay Wells
Past membersGraeme "Mop" Youngson
Dave Williamson
Andy Murray
Steve Lawrence
Chris Greer
Nick Tann
Andrej Chernjavskij
Andy Davey
Hamish Ferguson
Steve Picken
Mark Mongan
Charlie Goodall
Russ Barnes
Alec Stone
Chris Lappage
Adam Bowden
Phil Marshall
Phil Langman
Ray Drury
Website Official website

Coast is a Scottish rock group, based in Oban, UK. Coast's members are Paul Eastham (lead vocals, keyboards, guitars, accordion), Chris Barnes (percussion) and Finlay Wells (guitars).

Contents

Early history

Coast was formed in winter 2007 by the Stockport born singer-songwriter Paul Eastham and his brother, Chris Barnes. A classically trained pianist, Eastham had previously co-written and co-produced the first EP by the Welsh singer Duffy, Aimée Duffy , which was released in 2004 under the Welsh Awen Records label. [1] Eastham also played keyboards, synthesizers and guitar on the EP.

Coast's first EP was The Great Crowd, released in January 2008, also on Awen Records. [2] Per Paul Eastham in the accompanying DVD for the album "'10'", Coast was originally intended to be a studio-only project. But due to the positive online reaction to the title track, a live lineup was soon assembled. [3] Coast performed their first live show at the Storm Club in Leicester Square, London, on 12 March 2008.

In May 2009, Coast was asked to record the official single for "Saints Aid", a charity event organized by Southampton Football Club fans to raise funds to keep the club from going into liquidation. [4] The single, "Colours", was released on 18 May 2009 and the band appeared at the Saints Aid music festival at St Mary's Stadium in Southampton on 23 May 2009. [5] In September 2009, "Colours" hit the top of the German Web Radio Charts. [6]

Eponymous Debut Album Coast and The Turning Stone

The band released their first full-length album, Coast, on 21 November 2009 in conjunction with a sold-out album launch show at the Talking Heads in Southampton. The album was first previewed on the Karin Ingram Show on Radio Borders on 15 November 2009.

Coast appeared on the Sally Taylor Show on BBC Radio Solent on 23 January 2010 before their appearance at the Danny Kyle Open Stage of Glasgow's Celtic Connections music festival on 24 January 2010. [7] The band's show at Oban on 26 February was reviewed by The Oban Times. [8] On 8 March 2010, Celtic Music Radio in Glasgow selected Coast as its Album of the Week [9]

It was announced on 16 March 2010 that Coast would appear on the same bill as Donnie Munro, Steve Harley, Status Quo and the Sugababes at the Rock4Life music festival near Inverness in May 2010. However, the festival was eventually cancelled by the organisers because of financial problems. [10]

On 9 April 2010, it was announced that Coast would play their first non-UK show at the annual Tønder Festival in Denmark at the end of August 2010. Coast played on the same stage as the Scottish folk rock bands Wolfstone and The Chair. [11] In May 2010, Eastham and then-bassist Adam Bowden collaborated with the Kent-based musician Trevor Osborne to record and produce the England World Cup song "Go Win for England". [12] The track was recorded under the pseudonym The Bulldog Brothers and released on the Awen Records label. [13] That summer, Coast were runners-up in a competition run by the Southampton-based radio station Wave 105.2 to support Bon Jovi at the O2 arena in London in June 2010. [14] Coast played at the Tønder Festival on 27 and 29 August 2010. [15] The award-winning [16] Scottish fiddler Duncan Chisholm from Wolfstone joined Coast onstage to play fiddle on the song "The Beat of You", co-written by Coast lead singer Eastham and Iain Bayne.

On 7 November 2010, Radio Borders gave Coast's new single, "The Beat of You" from their upcoming album, its first radio airplay. The single features Duncan Chisholm from Wolfstone. [17] "The Beat of You" was released on 19 November 2010 in download format only. Coast released their second album, The Turning Stone, on 7 May 2011 through their own Ruabhal Records label. The band performed an album launch show at The Ironworks in Inverness on the same date. They were supported by Donald MacDonald and The Islands and The Gritters. Eddie Jordan from the Scottish new wave band Fiction Factory joined Coast on stage, playing the accordion on the song "Oceanos".

In May 2011, Coast announced that they had signed a CD distribution deal in Denmark with RecArt Entertainment Group. [18] The band was subsequently dropped by the label in 2013. On 12 June 2011, Coast played at the 50th Anniversary Concert for the German retail giant Saturn, attended by over 10,000 Saturn employees. Also playing at the event was the Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams and the chart topping German acts Unheilig and Die Fantastischen Vier.

On 21 June 2011, Coast front man Eastham released An Cuan Siar, a solo album of piano instrumentals.

Believe and Dancing With Satellites

The band released the three-track EP Believe on 28 October 2012. The CD included the new song "Believe" in addition to a radio edit version of "The Caller" and the original version of "Keep Loving". [19] After wrapping up touring in support of Believe, Eastham released the solo single "Feel" on 14 February 2013.

In late 2013, former Wolfstone lead guitarist Andy Murray joined the lineup. On 1 December 2013, Eastham released the solo EP Something and Nothing.

Coast released a Bruce Springsteen tribute song, "I Wanna Sing with the Boss", on 2 February 2014, on the band's official YouTube channel only. [20] In April 2014, the band completed the recording of a new four-track EP, Dancing with Satellites. The EP was produced and mixed by James Sanger at Vibey Studios in France. Sanger had previously worked on recordings by artists such as Dido, Keane, Pet Shop Boys and Phil Collins. [21] In May 2014, Eastham released the solo album PoW in CD and download formats. After being recruited by Andy Murray, Finlay Wells joined Coast on bass guitar in time for their tour in Denmark during July 2014 in support of the new EP. [22] Dancing With Satellites was officially released on 21 July 2014. Later that year, Eastham collaborated with opera singer Tony Henry to compose, record and produce the EP Percosi.

In 2015, Eastham released, in CD format only, the solo album Iron Horse.

Windmills in the Sky

On 6 March 2016, the band announced that they had started work on a third studio album, to be called Windmills in the Sky. [23] The album was planned for release in early 2017. At the same time, the band announced that ex-Wolfstone drummer Graeme "Mop" Youngson had joined the band. It was also announced that they were relocating from Southampton, England to Oban, Scotland. In August 2016, Murray left the band to concentrate on other musical projects. Finlay Wells took over on lead guitar in the band while also playing bass guitar on studio recordings. On 3 January 2017, Coast released a radio edit of the track "River" for radio airplay only, from their forthcoming album Windmills in the Sky. [24] On 31 January 2017, Windmills in the Sky, was pre-released to their fan base who had signed up for pre-order. An official public release was planned for later in 2017. [25] Coast embarked on a tour of Denmark in January and February 2017 with Midge Ure bassist Dave Williamson joining the live lineup. Youngson and Williamson departed the band in early 2018.

10

Portalen2019c.jpg
Coast in Denmark during the 2019 '10' tour.

In late 2018, the band began laying the groundwork for a special album and DVD package to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut eponymous album. The album, entitled 10, featured two brand new tracks, "Who Loves You Now" and "Drift Away". Two of the tracks, though not new, had never before been featured on a Coast full-length album ("I Wanna Sing with the Boss" and the Finlay Wells-penned "Lament For Nick"). The rest of the tracks were new recordings of previous songs reflecting how they were now being played live. [26] Coast toured in the summer and fall of 2019 in Germany, Denmark and Sweden in support of the album. [27] By now, the permanent members of the band were Paul Eastham, Chris Barnes and Finlay Wells. [28]

Discography

Albums

Singles & EPs

Guest artists

The following guest artists have appeared on Coast releases and/or in live shows:

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delirious?</span> English contemporary Christian band (1992–2009)

Delirious? were an English contemporary Christian band. For the majority of their career, the lineup featured Martin Smith on vocals and guitar, Stu G on guitar and backing vocals, Jon Thatcher on bass guitar, Tim Jupp on keys and piano, and Stew Smith on drums and percussion. Paul Evans took over as drummer for the band's final two years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sea Power</span> English rock band

Sea Power, previously known as British Sea Power and initially as British Air Powers, are an English alternative rock band. The group's original lineup consisted of Jan Scott Wilkinson, known as Yan; Martin Noble, known as Noble; and Alison Cotton. By the time the band had begun its recording career, Cotton had departed, and two new members had joined: Neil Hamilton Wilkinson, known as Hamilton, and Matthew Wood, known as Woody. Eamon Hamilton joined the band in autumn 2002. He left in 2006 and was replaced by Phil Sumner, with Abi Fry joining the band in 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Runrig</span> Scottish Celtic rock band

Runrig were a Scottish Celtic rock band formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973. From its inception, the band's line-up included brothers and songwriters Rory MacDonald and Calum MacDonald (percussion). The line-up during most of the 1980s and 1990s, which was the band's most successful period commercially, also included Donnie Munro (vocals), Malcolm Jones (guitar), Iain Bayne (drums), and Pete Wishart (keyboards). Munro left the band in 1997 to pursue a career in politics and was replaced by Bruce Guthro. Wishart left in 2001, also to pursue a career in politics, and was replaced by Brian Hurren. The band released fourteen studio albums, with a number of their songs sung in Scottish Gaelic. At the height of their success during the 1980s and 1990s, Runrig were described by Billboard as one of the "most celebrated" Gaelic language bands in Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Levellers (band)</span> English folk rock band

Levellers are an English folk rock and anarcho-punk band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 1988, consisting of Mark Chadwick, Jeremy Cunningham, Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (violin), Simon Friend, Matt Savage (keyboards) and Dan Donnelly. Taking their name from the Levellers political movement, the band released their first EP in 1989 and LP in 1990, with international success following upon signing to China Records and the release of their second album Levelling the Land. The band were among the most popular indie bands in Britain in the early 1990s, and performed at the Glastonbury Festival, first in 1992, then in 1994, where they performed as the headline act on The Pyramid Stage to a record crowd of 300,000 people. They continue to record and tour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alter Bridge</span> American rock band

Alter Bridge is an American rock band from Orlando, Florida. The band was formed in 2004 by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Myles Kennedy, lead guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. After their former band Creed became inactive in 2003, Tremonti and Phillips formed a new band with former bandmate Marshall and new member Kennedy; Alter Bridge was formally unveiled in January 2004, months before Creed's official breakup in June.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfstone</span> Scottish Celtic rock band

Wolfstone are a Scottish musical group founded in 1989, who play Celtic rock. Their repertoire consists of both original songs and traditional folk pieces. They have released seven studio albums, the latest, Terra Firma, in 2007. The band record on their own label, Once Bitten Records. The group are named after the "Wolfstone", a Pictish stone originally sited at Ardross, Easter Ross, close to where the band initially recorded.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">65daysofstatic</span> English post-rock band

65daysofstatic are a post-rock band from Sheffield, England. Formed in 2001, the band is composed of instrumentalists Paul Wolinski, Joe Shrewsbury, Rob Jones and Simon Wright.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toxik</span> American thrash metal band

Toxik is an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in Peekskill, New York. After breaking up for the first time in 1992 and briefly reuniting in 2007, the band reformed once again in 2013. Toxik has gone through several lineup changes over the years, leaving guitarist Josh Christian as the only constant member. The band has released three studio albums to date, World Circus (1987), Think This (1989) and Dis Morta (2022).

Days in December was a London-based post-hardcore band who released an EP entitled "Countless Hours Making Waves".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bombay Bicycle Club</span> English indie rock band

Bombay Bicycle Club is an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London, consisting of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram, and Ed Nash. They are guitar-fronted and have experimented with different genres, including folk, electronica, world music and indie rock.

<i>Aimée Duffy</i> (EP) 2004 EP by Aimée Duffy

Aimée Duffy is a Welsh-language extended play (EP) by Welsh singer Aimée Duffy, released in 2004 on Welsh record label Awen Records. Originally to be entitled Rock, Roll & Soul, the release came after the singer had come second in a Welsh televised talent show.

Ivan Drever is a Scottish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He often tours with fiddler Duncan Chisholm who founded the Celtic rock band Wolfstone which Drever joined in 1990 but left in later years. Drever has mixed traditional folk with some rock and roll sounds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sky Larkin</span> English indie rock band

Sky Larkin is an English indie rock band from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, who formed in 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deaf Havana</span> English alternative rock band

Deaf Havana are an English alternative rock band from Hunstanton and King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The band was formed in 2005 at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">String Sisters</span>

String Sisters are a folk supergroup made up of six of the world's leading female fiddlers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hammercult</span>

Hammercult was an Israeli-based thrash metal band, founded in 2010. The band is regarded as the leading extreme metal band of the Israeli metal movement in the 2000s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R5 (band)</span> American pop rock band

R5 was an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2009. The band consisted of Ross Lynch, Riker Lynch, Rocky Lynch, Rydel Lynch (keyboards/vocals), and Ellington Ratliff (drums/vocals). They released their first EP Ready Set Rock on March 9, 2010, but it was removed once Ross got his role on the Disney Channel show Austin and Ally. They then released the EP Loud on February 19, 2013. Since releasing their debut album, Louder, on September 24, 2013, which peaked at 24 on the Billboard 200, followed by their world tour. Their second album, Sometime Last Night, was released on July 10, 2015, and debuted at 6 on the US Billboard 200, and reached the top 20 in five other countries. They have also released five EPs, eleven singles, and a documentary. In 2018, the band ended and Ross and Rocky formed the duo The Driver Era.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Dunwells</span> English rock band

The Dunwells are an English rock band, formed in Leeds in 2009. The group consists of brothers Joseph Dunwell (vocals) and David Dunwell, along with friends Adam Taylor and Rob Clayton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Skerryvore (band)</span> Scottish Celtic rock band

Skerryvore are a Scottish Celtic rock band originally formed by Daniel Gillespie and Fraser West in Tiree, Argyll and Bute in 2000, after the two began playing ceilidh music together at various functions. Named after the Skerryvore lighthouse which lies 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Tiree, the band have released six studio albums, a compilation album, and a live album. Currently based in Glasgow, Scotland, Skerryvore have toured Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and China. Their earlier work was inspired by the music of their native Scotland. Later influences include rock, pop, jazz, Cajun, and country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sunset Sons</span> British-Australian indie band

Sunset Sons are a three-piece British-Australian indie band, based out of the town of Hossegor, in the Landes region of the south west of France, known as 'The European Surfing Capital'.

References

  1. ↑ "Aimée Duffy EP". Awen Records. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  2. ↑ "Recordiau Awen". Awen Records. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Paul Eastham (15 April 2019). The Making of 10 DVD (DVD). Denmark: Coast Productions. Event occurs at 5:55.
  4. ↑ "Saints Aid". Southern Daily Echo. 22 May 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "Saints Aid Festival..." Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Die offiziellen Top 100 der WebRadioCharts". Web Radio Charts. 22 September 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  7. ↑ "Sally Taylor Show on BBC Radio Solent". BBC. 23 January 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
    - "Southampton Celtic folk band Coast a hit in Scotland". BBC. 23 January 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  8. ↑ "Oban Times article (part 1)". Oban Times. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
    - "Oban Times article (part 2)". Oban Times. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
    - "Oban Times article (part 3)". Oban Times. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  9. ↑ "Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week". Celtic Music Radio. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  10. ↑ "Rock4Life Charity Rock Concert is Cancelled". The Scotsman. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  11. ↑ "Tønder Festival 2010 Program". Tonder Festival. 9 April 2010. Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  12. ↑ "Trevor Osborne Website". May 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "Bulldog Brothers – Go Win For England". Awen Records. May 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
    - "Clever Trevor tops Kent charts with World Cup anthem". Kent Online. 11 June 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  14. ↑ "Support Bon Jovi". Wave 105. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  15. ↑ "Coast: Coast". KPN.DK. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  16. ↑ "Duncan Chisholm wins Album of the Year". BBC. 6 December 2008. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  17. ↑ "Radio Borders Airplay Exclusive". 7 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  18. ↑ "Coast join RecArt". 23 May 2011. Archived from the original on 18 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  19. ↑ "Coast release new EP 'Believe'". 11 October 2012. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  20. ↑ "Coast Springsteen Tribute". 2 February 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  21. ↑ "James Sanger Artists". 27 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  22. ↑ Finlay Wells (15 April 2019). The Making of 10 DVD (DVD). Denmark: Coast Productions. Event occurs at 2:40.
  23. ↑ "Coast Newsletter". 6 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  24. ↑ "DR.DK playlist". 9 January 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  25. ↑ "Album Review". 1 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  26. ↑ Paul Eastham (15 April 2019). The Making of 10 DVD (DVD). Denmark: Coast Productions.
  27. ↑ Charbonneau, Larry (2019), Coast '10' Official Tour Programme 2019, p. 13
  28. ↑ Charbonneau, Larry (2019), Coast '10' Official Tour Programme 2019, pp. 4–9
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.