I hear you calling bill fay biography

English singer, pianist and songwriter

For say publicly Irish stage actor, see William Fay.

Musical artist

William Fay (born 9 September 1943) is an English singer-songwriter. His mistimed recordings were released by Deram, on the contrary following the release of his in the second place album in 1971, Fay was abandoned by the label. His work enjoyed a growing cult status in glory 1990s, and his older works were re-issued in 1998 and 2004/2005. Fay's 2012 album Life Is People was his first album of all-new issue since 1971. His most recent jotter, Countless Branches, was released on 17 January 2020.

Biography

Early career

Fay was calved in north London, where he termination lives.^[1]

His first single, "Some Good Advice" / "Screams in the Ears", was issued on the Deramlabel in 1967, and was followed by two albums, Bill Fay in 1970 and Time of the Last Persecution in 1971.^[2] The recordings did not sell superior, and Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of enthrone second album.^[3] They were re-issued smudge 1998,^[4] and then again in 2005.^[5]

Despite returning to the recording studio the same the late 1970s, Tomorrow, Prospective & Tomorrow, the follow-up to Time of the Last Persecution was fret released until January 2005,^[6] following justness reissues of his earlier works.

Cult status and comeback

Bill Fay's work enjoyed a growing cult status in nobleness 1990s.^[7] His first two albums were re-issued in 1998,^[4] an event which Bill Fay described in 2012 thanks to follows:

Up until 1998, when a number of people reissued my albums, as distance off as I was concerned, I was gone, deleted. No one was intent. But then I got the fright that people remembered my music. Side-splitting was doing some gardening, and heedful to some of my songs objective cassette, and a part of step thought they were quite good. Frantic thought, "Maybe somebody will hear them someday." That same evening, 14 geezerhood ago, I got a call give birth to a music writer telling me renounce my two albums were being reissued. A shock is not gonna pretence much bigger than that, David [...] It was astonishing to me. Crazed won't ever really be able protect believe that it happened. That's degree I feel about it. I esoteric come to terms with the event that I was deleted, but go off at a tangent I had always kept writing songs anyway and that was good enough.^[4]

In 2004, the British label Wooden Stack bank released a collection of demos filmed between 1966 and 1970 entitled From the Bottom of an Old Gaffer Clock. Recordings from 1978-1981were finally unbound in January 2005. Entitled Tomorrow, Coming & Tomorrow, the album was credited to the Bill Fay Group, promote released on the Durtro Jnana label.^[6]

The compilation album Still Some Light attended on the Coptic Cat label slight 2010,^[8] a double CD containing nifty mix of older material and flawed, home-recorded songs.^[9]

Released on 21 August 2012 on Dead Oceans, Life is People was his first new studio Fashionable in over 40 years.^[10]

Who Is character Sender?, a new album by Tab Fay was released in April 2015. The second album track, "War Machine", came out as a single comport yourself February 2015.^[11]

A feature article entitled "Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. Pick your way Musician Made Finding Him a Mission" was published in the New Dynasty Times on January 15, 2020.^[12]

His bossy recent album, Countless Branches, was loose on 17 January 2020.

Covers predominant appreciation

The American band Wilco has bogus Fay's song "Be Not So Fearful" in live performances and the band's singer, Jeff Tweedy, can be heard singing it in the documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco. Fay has joined the band and Tweedy onstage for the rendition of the melody at shows at the Shepherd's Shop Empire in 2007, and at representation Union Chapel, Islington in 2010 each to each, both in London.^[13]

The English singer-songwriter last pianist John Howard recorded a regain version of the song "Be So Fearful" for his E.P. Songs for the Lost and Found (2008). The song "Be Not So Fearful" was also covered by Ed Harcourt on the benefit compilation album Songs to Save a Life - Diffuse Aid of Samaritans (2011).

A apart from version of Fay's "Pictures of Adolf Again", by producer and musician Jim O'Rourke and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, can be heard in the release from Kōji Wakamatsu, United Red Army.^{[citation needed]} The title track of "Time of the Last Persecution" became unmixed live standard of the British Prophetic folk group, Current 93.^{[citation needed]}

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

The American button The War on Drugs covered Fay's song "I Hear You Calling" affection shows throughout 2014.

His song "Be Not So Fearful" was covered shy A.C. Newman in 2014, and was used in the episode "Us" be taken in by The Walking Dead.^[14][15]

In 2008 the Above-board singer Marc Almond recorded a subsist version of "Cosmic Boxer" and evenly was released on his album In 'Bluegate Fields': Live at Wilton's Medicine Hall.

In a widely available viable bootleg recording of a show dislike The Great American Music Hall overload San Francisco in February 2009, Writer Malkmus of the band Pavement, immobile Fay's "We Have Laid Here".^[16]

Discography

Albums

Compilation albums

• From the Bottom of an Old Grandparent Clock (recorded 1966–1970; Wooden Hill, 2004)
• Still Some Light (2CD, recorded 1970, 1971, 2009; Coptic Cat, 2010) / contemporary edition: Still Some Light Pt. 1 (1CD / 2LP) & Still Low down Light Pt. 2 (1CD / 2LP) (Dead Oceans, 14/01/2022) (compilation of beforehand 1970–1971 studio recordings and 2009 latest material home recordings)^{[nb 1]}

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Interviews

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