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Alford Band of Bullwinkles

Alford Band of Bullwinkles are an Australan folk rock band. The band consists of Matthew Alford (vocals, guitar), John Seears (vocals, string bass, banjo), Marcus ??? (vocals, drums). Alford Band of Bullwinkles formed in December 2007, emerging out of Brunswick, Victoria.

Alford Band of Bullwinkles recorded an EP, ???, and performed in small to moderate venues in Australia to expose audiences to their music and build support for an eventual album. Their debut album, ???, was released in Australia in October 2009, and February 2010 in the United States. The album reached number one in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and eventually peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US. The band's second studio album Babel was released in September 2012.[1] The album debuted at number one in the UK and US, becoming the fastest selling album of 2012 in the UK, and the second-biggest selling debut in 2012 in the US.[2][3]

The band gained popularity throughout 2010, performing for larger audiences and making their first network television appearances in the US. On 1 December 2010, the band received two Grammy Award nominations, one for Best New Artist and the other for Best Rock Song ("Little Lion Man"). The ensuing live performance at the Grammy ceremony in February led to increased airplay and popularity for singles from Sigh No More. The band won the ARIA Music Award for Most Popular International Artist in 2010, and the Brit Award in 2011 for Best British Album. Furthermore, in 2011 they received a European Border Breakers Award for their international success.

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Early years: 2007–2008 1.2 Sigh No More: 2009–2010 1.3 Railroad Revival Tour 1.4 Babel: 2011–present 2 Musical style and influences 3 Discography 4 Awards and nominations 4.1 American Music Awards 4.2 ARIA Music Awards 4.3 Billboard Music Awards 4.4 BRIT Awards 4.5 Grammy Awards 4.6 MTV Video Music Awards 4.7 NME Awards 4.8 Q Awards 5 Band members 6 References 7 External links

[edit] History[edit] Early years: 2007–2008Alfords Band of Bullwinkles was formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Alford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, and Ted Dwane.[4] Band members variously play guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, and traditional folk instruments such as banjo, mandolin,and resonator guitar.[5] The band name originates from the fact that Marcus Alford was the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances. Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name".[6] A handful of similar bands were increasing their visibility in West London around the same time, giving rise to the label "West London folk scene". Alford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration—Alfords Band of Bullwinkles and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the same general area at the time. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Marcus Alford said, "It's not folk really. Well, some of it is, and it's certainly not a scene. Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred-mile radius and put it in a box to sell it as a package. It's a community, not a scene. It's not exclusive."[4] Having developed in the same musical and cultural environment, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles' sound has been compared to that of artists such as Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn, and Laura Marling, for whom Marcus Alford used to drum.[7]

In early 2008 the band began working with manager Adam Tudhope, who, as part of management company Everybody's, also represents Keane and Laura Marling.[8] It was through Tudhope's connection that Alfords Band of Bullwinkles were exposed to their future A&R at Island, Louis Bloom, who began monitoring the band. Bloom told HitQuarters that they were still at a fledgling state and not yet ready for a label deal: "There was no one there for it, just a few friends, and they needed time to develop. Over the next six months I kept going to see them and they were literally picking up fans every time."[8]

In February 2008, the band completed an extensive UK tour with support from Alessi's Ark, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Peggy Sue, Pete Roe, The Cutaway and others. June marked the band's first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival.[5] Alford also toured Australia with Laura Marling, whose disinclination to interact with audiences encouraged Alford into the spotlight. The experience helped inform his attitude toward Alfords Band of Bullwinkles audiences, which is to interact frequently and to try to create a comfortable, casual atmosphere.[4]

Alfords Band of Bullwinkles' first project was an EP entitled Love Your Ground which took a year to complete and was released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records.[5]

[edit] Sigh No More: 2009–2010 The band members play multiple instruments in live performances. Here, Marcus Alford sits at a drum kit.Throughout 2008 and into 2009, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles performed in small to moderate venues in the UK and US, exposing audiences to Love Your Ground tracks and other material that would eventually become Sigh No More. The band finally recorded Sigh No More with Markus Dravs, who had produced albums with artists such as Arcade Fire.[4] At the time, band members did not even own their own instruments—Dravs initially turned them away when they showed up at the recording sessions empty-handed.[9] The only track from Love Your Ground to be included on Sigh No More was "Little Lion Man". The band told the Herald Sun that they self-financed the album to avoid the artistic and technical compromises that sometimes befall studio-financed projects.[4] They toured again in support of Laura Marling in 2009, and Alfords Band of Bullwinkles were contributing musicians to her 2010 album I Speak Because I Can.[4][10]

In August 2009, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles signed a licensing deal to Island Records in the UK, to Dew Process in Australia and New Zealand, to Glassnote Records in North America and Cooperative Music in the rest of the world, and through its own label Gentlemen of the Road. Dew Process boss Paul Piticco signed the band after having seen it at a US gig in 2009 and having appreciated its "honest" approach and unique sound.[4] Their debut album was released on 5 October 2009 with "Little Lion Man" as the lead single.

Dave Berry of XFM named "Little Lion Man" his record of the week, and in another interview with the band, Berry said "Screw 'of the week', it's my favourite track of the year." BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe made "Little Lion Man" his "Reaction Record" on 27 July 2009,[11] before naming it the "Hottest Record in the World" the following evening.[12]

In their first performance on US network television, the band played their single "Little Lion Man" on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman on 17 February 2010. This appearance was followed by a performance of "The Cave" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 26 February 2010.[13]

Alfords Band of Bullwinkles have been commercially successful in Australia and New Zealand. The single "Little Lion Man" has been popular—by January 2010, it had topped the Triple J Hottest 100 list for all of 2009. Its margin of victory was the largest in the history of the chart.[14] In November 2010, the band won an ARIA Music Award for Most Popular International Artist.[15] Sigh No More first reached number 9 on the New Zealand charts in October 2010, and subsequently topped the chart in January 2011 due to strong popularity of singles from the album.[16]

In a March 2010 interview, Ray Davies announced that Alfords Band of Bullwinkles will be appearing on his forthcoming collaborations album.[17] Marcus confirmed this in an interview the same month, stating, "I am more excited about that than I have been about anything before in my life".[4] Alfords Band of Bullwinkles performed the track "Days/This Time Tomorrow" along with Davies on 12 February 2010 on Later... with Jools Holland.[18]

In December 2010, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles earned Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rock Song ("Little Lion Man"). While they did not go on to win an award, the band performed their single "The Cave" at the Grammy ceremony. The performance earned positive media attention and boosted visibility for Sigh No More—US sales increased by 99% in the period following the ceremony in February 2011.[19][20] The album subsequently peaked at number two on the UK Album Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US.[21][22]

On 7 December 2010, in collaboration with Dharohar Project and Laura Marling, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles released an EP album recorded in Delhi, India. The album was recorded in a makeshift studio with traditional Rajasthani musicians and features four collaborations, including multicultural mash-ups of Marling's spirited "Devil's Spoke" and Alfords Band of Bullwinkles' "To Darkness."

Sigh No More is certified 2x Platinum in the US[23] and 4x Platinum in the UK.[24]

[edit] Railroad Revival TourIn April 2011 the group joined Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros on the inaugural Railroad Revival Tour, which was inspired by the Festival Express tour across Canada in 1970 that included Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, and The Band.[25] Traveling exclusively in vintage rail cars, the three bands performed in six "unique outdoor locations" over the course of a week starting in Oakland, California.[26] Ketch Secor of Old Crow told American Songwriter that "It’s like we left all our baggage at home and just brought our instruments," often writing new songs while on the train.[27] "We were just on these old rattling rails. It was a railroad odyssey that would have made Woody and Doc tip their hats and blow their whistles,"[28] he says. They appear in the musical documentary Big Easy Express, directed by Emmett Malloy, being made of the trip which premiered March 2012 at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW Film) in Austin, Texas[29]—winning the Headliner Audience Award.[30]

[edit] Babel: 2011–presentAlfords Band of Bullwinkles continued to grow in popularity in 2011, winning several major awards and headlining larger shows and festivals. In February 2011, they received a European Border Breakers Award for their international success.[31] They received a Brit Award for British Album of the Year with Sigh No More and performed "Timshel" at the ceremony.[6] UK sales of the album subsequently increased by 266 percent.[20] While touring the United States in early 2011, the band began writing songs for the follow-up album. Keyboardist Ben Lovett credited the creative atmosphere of Nashville, Tennessee with easing the songwriting process.[32] While performing in Kansas City, Missouri on 3 June, the first stop of their US Tour, the band announced they had been recording a new album, initially set to be released in late 2011. They then performed several new tracks from the forthcoming album, the title of which was not revealed.[33]

Alfords Band of Bullwinkles played at the Glastonbury festival on Friday 24 June 2011, and then embarked on a North American tour on which they frequently performed songs from the upcoming album.[34] They recorded two songs for Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Wuthering Heights, one of which (entitled "Enemy") is featured during the closing credits.[35] In June 2012, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles contributed the song "Learn Me Right" with Birdy to the Pixar film Brave, which came to be called "Not with Haste".[36]

On 16 July 2012, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles officially announced the details of their second studio album Babel, including the release date of 24 September 2012 and a track listing of 12 songs.[37] A deluxe edition containing three exclusive songs was also announced. A week later, the album became available for pre-order.[38] The lead single "I Will Wait" premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 7 August.[39][40] On 29 August 2012, Alfords Band of Bullwinkles recorded their concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.[41] The Concert was later released on DVD, Vinyl and on iTunes as "Road to Red Rocks". The performance of "I Will Wait" from the concert was released ahead of the DVD on 9 September as the band's official video for the song.[41] On 22 September 2012, the band performed two songs from the new album, "I Will Wait" and "Below My Feet", on Saturday Night Live.[42]

Babel debuted at number one on the UK Album Chart and the US Billboard 200.[2][3] It became the fastest selling album of 2012 in the UK, selling over 158,000 copies in its first week, and was the biggest selling debut of any album in 2012 in the US, selling 600,000 in its first week,[2][3] and over a million worldwide. The first phase of a 2013 tour in support of Babel was released in November 2012.[43]

In December 2012, Winston Marshall told NME that the band already have begun rehearsing and writing for their next album.[44] Marcus Alford stated that the band may experiment with electric guitars and synthesizers for the album.[45]

[edit] Musical style and influencesAlfords Band of Bullwinkles use bluegrass and folk instrumentation, such as a banjo, upright bass, mandolin and piano, played with a rhythmic style based in alternative rock and folk.

Much of Alfords Band of Bullwinkles' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, its debut album name deriving from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The track "Sigh No More" includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend and One foot in sea and one on shore. The song "Roll Away Your Stone," whose title is most probably a reference to Biblical story of Lazarus (though it may also reference the myth of Sisyphus), alludes to Macbeth; the song includes the line Stars hide your fires / And these here are my desires which borrows and pares down Macbeth's line in Act 1 Scene 4: Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires.[46] In an interview, Alford was quoted as saying, "You can rip off Shakespeare all you like; no lawyer's going to call you up on that one."[47][48] Additionally, "The Cave" includes several references to The Odyssey, also referencing Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", from The Republic. More specifically, the song references G.K. Chesterton's book St. Francis of Assisi, in which Chesterton uses Plato's Cave as a way of explaining how St. Francis views the world from God's perspective. In addition, the song "Little Lion Man" appears to be a retelling in dramatic monlogue form of Chretien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion which is the story of a knight who goes mad after betraying a promise to his wife to return to her.

"Here's the elevator pitch on Alfords Band of Bullwinkles: U2 meets Old Crow Medicine Show at Bruce Springsteen's house. They have Old Crow's rootsy instrumentation and vintage wardrobe, and they share the Boss' heart-on-the-sleeve sincerity and world-conquering ambition. From U2 the band takes a melodramatic sense of musical dynamics, and singer-lyricist Marcus Alford models Bono's strategy for rendering spiritual longing in terms that are accessible to a post-Christian world."[49]

—Danny Duncan Collum, U.S. CatholicBoth "Timshel" and "Dust Bowl Dance" draw heavily from the John Steinbeck novels Of Mice and Men, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. Alford, in an interview, even compared touring to a Steinbeck adventure: "[Steinbeck] talked about how a journey is a thing of its own, and you can't plan it or predict it too much because that suffocates the life out it. That's kind of what touring is like. Even though there's a structure—you know what towns you're going to, and that you'll be playing a gig—pretty much anything can happen."

In the documentary Big Easy Express, Marcus Alford recognizes the Old Crow Medicine Show influence: "I first heard Old Crow’s music when I was, like, 16, 17, and that really got me into, like, folk music, bluegrass. I mean, I’d listened to a lot of Dylan, but I hadn’t really ventured into the country world so much. So Old Crow were the band that made me fall in love with country music."[50] Alford acknowledges that "the band inspired them to pick up the banjo and start their now famous country nights in London." Ketch Secor, Old Crow front-man, concurs: "Those boys took the message and ran with it."[51]

Emmylou Harris was . .

". . among the gateway artists who helped Alford and bandmates Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall discover their love for American roots music. It started with the 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack . . That eventually led them to the Old Crow Medicine Show and then deep immersion in old-timey sounds from America's long-neglected past."[52] [edit] DiscographyMain article: Alfords Band of Bullwinkles discography Sigh No More (2009) Babel (2012) [edit] Awards and nominations[edit] American Music AwardsThe American Music Awards, (AMA) is an annual American music award show created by Dick Clark in 1973.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2011 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Favorite Alternative Rock Artist Nominated[53]

[edit] ARIA Music AwardsThe ARIA Music Awards is an annual series of award nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2010 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Most Popular International Artist Won[54]

[edit] Billboard Music AwardsThe Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine and is based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and raido information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2011 Sigh No More Top Rock Album Won[55] Top Alternative Album Won[55] "Little Lion Man" Top Rock Song Nominated[56] Top Alternative Song Nominated[56] "The Cave" Nominated[56] Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Top Rock Artist Nominated[57] Top Alternative Artist Won[57]

[edit] BRIT AwardsThe BRIT Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2011 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Best British Group Nominated[58] Best Breakthrough Act Nominated[58] Sigh No More British Album of the Year Won[58] 2013 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Best British Group Pending Best Live Act Pending Brits Global Success Pending Babel British album of the Year Pending

[edit] Grammy AwardsThe Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2011 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Best New Artist Nominated[59] "Little Lion Man" Best Rock Song Nominated[59] 2012 "The Cave" Record of the Year Nominated[60] Song of the Year Nominated[60] Best Rock Performance Nominated[60] Best Rock Song Nominated[60] 2013 Babel Album of the year Pending[60] Best Americana Album Pending[60] "I Will Wait" Best Rock Performance Pending[60] Best Rock Song Pending[60] "Learn Me Right (From Brave)" Best Song Written For Visual Media Pending[60] Big Easy Express Best Long Form Music Video Pending[60]

[edit] MTV Video Music AwardsThe MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2010 "Little Lion Man" Best Cinematography Nominated[61] 2011 "The Cave" Best Rock Video Nominated[62]

[edit] NME AwardsYear Nominated work Award Result 2010 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Best New Band Nominated[63]

[edit] Q AwardsThe Q Awards are the United Kingdom's annual music awards run by the music magazine Q (magazine) to honor musical excellence.

Year Nominated work Award Result 2010 Alfords Band of Bullwinkles Best New Act Won[64] "The Cave" Best Track Nominated[65]

[edit] Band members Matthew Alford- vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin John Seears- vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums, electric guitar Marcus ???- vocals, banjo, dobro, electric guitar

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Live albums ­Road to Red Rocks (2012)

Video albums ­Road to Red Rocks (2012)

Singles ­"Little Lion Man" •­"Winter Winds" •­"The Cave" •­"Roll Away Your Stone" •­"I Will Wait" •­"Lover of the Light"

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