The Badgeman

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The Badgeman were a four-piece

Echo and The Bunnymen, and The Wedding Present
.

History

The band was formed by John Packwood (guitar), Tim Kerley (drums), Neale Hancock (vocals/guitar), and Simon Wigglesworth (bass), all of whom had previously played together in The Hunny Monsturs.

figure in conspiracy theories surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy.[2]

The band's initial release, "Go Insane!", appeared on a two track shared

Jazz Butcher, and Mayo Thompson) during 1989.[2] The band recorded an album for Glass but it remained unreleased due to the label's financial problems, and when the label dissolved, its founder David E. Barker signed The Badgeman to his new venture Paperhouse (along with Walkingseeds, Teenage Fanclub, Phil Shoenfelt, Don Fleming and Gumball), a subsidiary of Fire Records of London.[2]

A single, "Crystals", and album,

prog rock". The band toured Europe in 1990 with Teenage Fanclub.[2]

At the end of 1990 The Badgeman recorded four tracks which were to appear during 1991 as the Curse of The Badgeman

Heaven & Hell. This recording resurfaced during 2010 as part of another VU tribute, Unpiecing The Jigsaw, released by Ozit
Records.

The final LP by The Badgeman appeared on Paperhouse c. early 1992. Entitled Ritual Landscape, this album was a critical and commercial failure at the time of its release but has since come to be regarded as an artistic triumph. The album's most notable champion, the musician, writer, and historian Julian Cope went so far as to make Ritual Landscape his Unsung Album Of The Month in December 2007 on his highly regarded Head Heritage Unsung website, describing the band's sound in such terms as "post punk..folk..muscular..heathen racket".[3] The same review appears in Cope's book of collected writings on the subject of obscure or underappreciated rock and roll, Copendium.[4] The cover art features in Andrew Johnstones book How The Neolthics Influenced Rock'n'Roll[5]

The band split up shortly after the album's release, with Hancock, Wigglesworth, and Kerley forming Big Bird.[2]

Discography

Albums

  • Kings of the Desert (1990), Paperhouse
  • Ritual Landscape (1992), Paperhouse

Singles

  • "Go Insane!" (as 'The Badgeman?')/The Mayfields - "All You Ever Say" (1988), Compact & Bijou - flexi disc
  • "Crystals" (1990), Paperhouse
  • Curse of The Badgeman EP (1991), Paperhouse
  • "English Road Song" (1992), Paperhouse

Compilation Appearances

References

  1. ISBN 9780711969735
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-9557410-2-9
    , p. 247-253
  3. ^ Cope, Julian (2007) "Julian Cope's Album of the Month: The Badgeman Ritual Landscape", headheritage.co.uk, December 2007, retrieved 2011-12-01
  4. ISBN 978-0-571-27033-0
    , p. 347 - 52
  5. ISBN 1446191389
  • Select Magazine - issue 1 - July 1990

External links

  • The Badgeman free MP3 downloads available at Fire Records online store.
  • [1] Free Badgeman downloads
  • [2] Big Bird and Original Howling Gods on Soundcloud
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