Rio Goldhammer

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Rio Goldhammer
Birth nameRio Sebastian Justin Goldhammer
Born (1990-05-17) 17 May 1990 (age 34)
London, England
Genres Punk rock, post-punk, gothic rock, indie rock
OccupationMusician
Instrument(s)Vocals, bass
Years active2005-present
Labels Cleopatra Records, Westworld Recordings, Bunnysnot Records, Cry Wolf Records
Website http://riogoldhammer.net/

Rio Sebastian Justin Goldhammer (born 17 May 1990) is an English musician, filmmaker, and writer from Yorkshire. [1] He is best known for fronting the Bradford post-punk band 1919 since their reformation in 2014. [2] [3]

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Goldhammer started on the Leeds underground scene in the mid 2000s, eventually setting up Bunnysnot Records in 2011 as a vehicle for releasing his early work. [4]

Early life

Goldhammer grew up in a non-religious Jewish family in North Yorkshire. His grandfather was from Poland, while the family also has roots in Austria. Goldhammer attended a local Church of England primary school. [5] [6]

In Music

1919

In 2014, Goldhammer started working with 1919's founding guitarist Mark Tighe as he set about re-forming the group. [7] Not wanting to waste time, the pair released a video for their demo of Revenge as a transitional line-up in which Goldhammer performed bass in addition to vocals. [8] Whilst this video would ultimately catch the eye of Mick Reed and see Tighe's ambition for a 1919 renaissance realised, the interim period saw the pair join up with legendary Leeds producer Will Jackson on a project called Circle of the Absurd (COTA). [9]

COTA though, was indefinitely shelved when the 1919 reunion got into full swing. The band self-released a live CD, 2015: "The Madness Continues" Sessions (subsequently released on vinyl by Old Skull in 2018 [10] ), which contained classic 1919 songs alongside four new tracks which would become the Death Note EP. Amidst a busy touring schedule over the next year, 1919 signed to Westworld Recordings to release their second studio album, Bloodline, [11] which was well received by fans and critics. [12] This was followed up by the D.N.A EP, the inaugural physical release on the band's Cry Wolf label, [13] after Tighe's death in 2017.

During Tighe's illness, Goldhammer re-started work on the COTA album hoping that his bandmate would be able to hear some of it finished. [1] Thanks to the hard work of producer Jackson, who also provided programming and synths for the album, and filmmaker Carl Arnfield (who had made the Revenge, Death Note, and Bloodline videos), Goldhammer was able to release the eponymous Circle of the Absurd video just days before losing his friend to cancer. [14] The first four completed COTA tracks were released as a limited edition cassette on Bunnysnot Records later that year, and Goldhammer's video for A Hymn to the Night, the second A-side track on D.N.A, featured performances from Tighe's daughters in a moving tribute to their late father. [15]

In 2018, 1919 signed to Los Angeles label Cleopatra Records for their third studio album, Futurecide [16] (Goldhammer's second with the group). In a 2021 interview with Goth Haus LA, he revealed the band would be releasing their new album, Citizens of Nowhere, later that year. [17]

Solo career

On 21 September 2018, Goldhammer released his debut solo EP, RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK [18] (the name is taken from Thomas Frank's What's The Matter With Kansas? [19] ), at Minicave festival, Münster, as part of a short solo tour [20] where he also performed songs from Circle of the Absurd. [21] The subsequent album, Peur Rouge, [22] was made available to order with the release of a new video, "Breathe", on 25 October. [23]

Outside music

In 2016 Goldhammer won a Carnegie Faculty studentship to research at Leeds Beckett University. [24] Previously, Goldhammer had completed a BA (Hons) in Cultural Studies and an MA in Political Theory at the University of Leeds. In 2018 Goldhammer's debut short documentary, Punk Rock Politics, [25] was released on Amazon Prime. [26] Filmed in 2016, the film documents the final days of Goldhammer's unsuccessful campaign to be elected to council in a provincial ward of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he was a candidate for The Labour Party. [27] The film was an official selection in 2017 for the Workers Unite Film Festival [28] in New York and the London Labour Film Festival, with the latter awarding it a Highly Commended status as the runner-up for its Short Documentary prize. [29] In 2020, Goldhammer ran for the Labour candidacy for Mayor of West Yorkshire. [30] Despite making it through the first round, [31] he fell short of the final shortlist and the candidacy was ultimately won by Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin. His platform included rent control, migrant rights, and Yorkshire Devolution. [32]

As a writer Goldhammer has covered a broad range of subjects relating to art, identity, and politics. His work has been published in Sounds and the City [33] (Palgrave), Metal Music Studies [34] (Intellect), and in international news publications such as Newsweek [35] and The Independent . [36] He is also a regular contributor to Souciant [37] and The Conversation. [24]

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  2. ↑ "History". 1919 Home. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rio Goldhammer". The Conversation. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "bio". Bunnysnot Records. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Goldhammer, Rio (April 2022). "I am… an irreligious Jew". Reform Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  6. ↑ Scott, Geraldine (31 October 2020). "'We need a first minister for Yorkshire, we could call it top brass' - Meet the punk singer vying to be the first mayor of West Yorkshire". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "A Brief History". 1919 Facebook.
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  10. ↑ "1919 "The madness continues" vinyl LP 12"". www.oldskull.info. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "1919 Announce New Album 'Bloodline' – Westworld Recordings". www.westworldrecordings.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  12. ↑ Canty, Ian (13 March 2017). "1919: Bloodline - Album Review - Louder Than War". Louder Than War. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "1919 - DNA EP". Discogs. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  14. ↑ 1919 Official (25 January 2017), C.O.T.A - Circle of the Absurd , retrieved 16 October 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ 1919 Official (16 November 2017), 1919 - A Hymn to the Night (Official) , retrieved 16 October 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  17. ↑ Batz, Morticia (29 January 2021). "Band Interview: 1919". Goth Haus LA. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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  20. ↑ "Featured Act - Aces And Eights Saloon Bar - Thursday 20th September". www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  21. ↑ Cyberpagan (8 October 2018), Rio Goldhammer - Death Trance , retrieved 16 October 2018
  22. ↑ "Mail-order". Bat-Cave Productions.
  23. ↑ Rio Goldhammer (25 October 2018), Rio Goldhammer - Breathe , retrieved 26 October 2018
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  29. ↑ "THE WINNERS – LABOUR FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL CONTEST 2017". London Labour Film Festival. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  30. ↑ "'We need a first minister for Yorkshire' - Meet the punk singer vying to be the first mayor of West Yorkshire". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  31. ↑ Andrew Kersley. "Everything you need to know about Labour's West Yorkshire mayor selection race". LabourList. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  32. ↑ "1919 frontman Rio Goldhammer running for Mayor of West Yorkshire". NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News. 31 October 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  33. ↑ Goldhammer, Rio (25 October 2018), "Provincial Towns and Yorkshire Cities: Post-Punk Sounds, Suburban Escape, and Metro-Hegemony", Sounds and the City, Springer International Publishing, pp. 347–367, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94081-6_17, ISBN   9783319940809
  34. ↑ Goldhammer, Rio (1 March 2017). "After the apocalypse: Identity and legitimacy in the postdigital heavy metal subculture". Metal Music Studies. 3 (1): 135–144. doi:10.1386/mms.3.1.135_1. ISSN   2052-3998.
  35. ↑ Goldhammer, Rio (9 January 2017). "Here's how "new globalism" could change our world for good". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  36. ↑ "Author: Rio Goldhammer". The Independent. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  37. ↑ "Author: Rio Goldhammer". souciant.com. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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