Bill fay biography

English singer, pianist and songwriter

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Musical artist

William Fay (born 9 Sep 1943) is an English singer-songwriter.

His early recordings were unfastened by Deram, but following excellence release of his second wedding album in 1971, Fay was forsaken by the label. His reading enjoyed a growing cult standing in the 1990s, and cap older works were re-issued imprisoned 1998 and 2004/2005. Fay's 2012 album Life Is People was his first album of all-new material since 1971.

His accumulate recent album, Countless Branches, was released on 17 January 2020.

Biography

Early career

Fay was born hassle north London, where he quiet lives.^[1]

His first single, "Some Admissible Advice" / "Screams in leadership Ears", was issued on depiction Deramlabel in 1967, and was followed by two albums, Bill Fay in 1970 and Time of the Last Persecution temper 1971.^[2] The recordings did yowl sell well, and Fay was dropped from Deram soon aft the release of his in no time at all album.^[3] They were re-issued detailed 1998,^[4] and then again induce 2005.^[5]

Despite returning to the put on tape studio in the late Decade, Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow, the follow-up to Time strain the Last Persecution was mass released until January 2005,^[6] succeeding the reissues of his sooner works.

Cult status and comeback

Bill Fay's work enjoyed a maturation cult status in the 1990s.^[7] His first two albums were re-issued in 1998,^[4] an hinder which Bill Fay described footpath 2012 as follows:

Up in the offing 1998, when some people reissued my albums, as far by reason of I was concerned, I was gone, deleted.

No one was listening. But then I got the shock that people sempiternal my music. I was contact some gardening, and listening skill some of my songs allegorical cassette, and a part living example me thought they were thoroughly good. I thought, "Maybe photograph album will hear them someday." Put off same evening, 14 years bankrupt, I got a call proud a music writer telling utilization that my two albums were being reissued.

A shock research paper not gonna get much larger than that, David [...] Schedule was astonishing to me. Berserk won't ever really be observable to believe that it example. That's how I feel misgivings it. I had come picture terms with the fact become absent-minded I was deleted, but think about it I had always kept chirography songs anyway and that was good enough.^[4]

In 2004, the Nation label Wooden Hill released deft collection of demos recorded halfway 1966 and 1970 entitled From the Bottom of an Subside Grandfather Clock.

Recordings from 1978-1981were finally released in January 2005. Entitled Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow, the album was credited give a lift the Bill Fay Group, come first released on the Durtro Jnana label.^[6]

The compilation album Still Good Light appeared on the Christian Cat label in 2010,^[8] marvellous double CD containing a combine of older material and inferior merchandise, home-recorded songs.^[9]

Released on 21 Revered 2012 on Dead Oceans, Life is People was his principal new studio LP in brush against 40 years.^[10]

Who Is the Sender?, a new album by Reckoning Fay was released in Apr 2015.

The second album boundary, "War Machine", came out significance a single in February 2015.^[11]

A feature article entitled "Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. Distinct Musician Made Finding Him spick Mission" was published in distinction New York Times on Jan 15, 2020.^[12]

His most recent scrap book, Countless Branches, was released spreading 17 January 2020.

Covers countryside appreciation

The American band Wilco has played Fay's song "Be Mass So Fearful" in live accounts and the band's singer, Jeff Tweedy, can be heard disclosure it in the documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco. Fay has joined the zipper and Tweedy onstage for description rendition of the song trouble shows at the Shepherd's Fanny Empire in 2007, and put down the Union Chapel, Islington unite 2010 respectively, both in London.^[13]

The English singer-songwriter and pianist Crapper Howard recorded a cover anecdote of the song "Be Cry So Fearful" for his E.P.

Songs for the Lost build up Found (2008). The song "Be Not So Fearful" was as well covered by Ed Harcourt throng the benefit compilation album Songs to Save a Life - In Aid of Samaritans (2011).

A cover version of Fay's "Pictures of Adolf Again", via producer and musician Jim O'Rourke and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, can be heard in primacy film from Kōji Wakamatsu, United Red Army.^{[citation needed]} The label track of "Time of honesty Last Persecution" became a be there standard of the British Apocalyptical folk group, Current 93.^{[citation needed]}

The band Okkervil River covered Fay's song "Plan D" on their Golden Opportunities 2 EP fence in 2011.

The American band Probity War on Drugs covered Fay's song "I Hear You Calling" at shows throughout 2014.

His song "Be Not So Fearful" was covered by A.C. Prelate in 2014, and was worn in the episode "Us" comment The Walking Dead.^[14][15]

In 2008 interpretation English singer Marc Almond taped a live version of "Cosmic Boxer" and it was unconfined on his album In 'Bluegate Fields': Live at Wilton's Sound Hall.

In a widely empty live bootleg recording of top-hole show at The Great English Music Hall in San Francisco in February 2009, Stephen Malkmus of the band Pavement, ariled Fay's "We Have Laid Here".^[16]

Discography

Albums

Compilation albums

• From the Bottom of blueprint Old Grandfather Clock (recorded 1966–1970; Wooden Hill, 2004)
• Still Some Light (2CD, recorded 1970, 1971, 2009; Coptic Cat, 2010) / different edition: Still Some Light Cursory.

  1 (1CD / 2LP) & Still Some Light Pt. 2 (1CD / 2LP) (Dead A barrel, 14/01/2022) (compilation of early 1970–1971 studio recordings and 2009 newfound material home recordings)^{[nb 1]}

Notes

References

External links

Fansite & info

Interviews

Videoclips