Simon Bonney has released a new song ‘Eyes of Blue’, the latest to be taken from his forthcoming compilation album Past, Present, Future, out 3 May 2019 on Mute. Past, Present, Future includes songs from his last two albums Forever (1992) and Everyman (1994) as well as six new tracks, including the title track for an unreleased album, Eyes of Blue.
Listen to ‘Eyes of Blue’ here: http://smarturl.it/SimonBonney
At the age of 16, Simon Bonney formed Crime and the City Solution in an abandoned building in Sydney’s business district. The band embodied the post punk ethos of nihilism and alienation, and Simon’s lyrics and music were informed in part by life as a 14-year-old runaway in 1970s Kings Cross, Sydney’s red-light district. In 1984 after a move to London, Simon formed a new incarnation of the band with Bad Seed Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard (The Birthday Party), Harry Howard (These Immortal Souls) and Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps). After four beautifully chaotic records, a run of cacophonous live shows in Europe and the US, and a standout performance in Wim Wenders’ 1980s masterpiece Wings of Desire, the band broke up, and Simon and Mick relocated to West Berlin. Here Simon would form the longest lasting line-up, the Berlin Crime and the City Solution, which featured Simon, Mick, Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Bronwyn Adams, Thomas Stern, and Chrislo Hass (DAF). From the band’s first offering, Shine, through their final album, The Adversary Live, the band was championed by influential journalists, with its albums regularly showing up in the best-of lists.
In 1992, with Crime and the City Solution on hiatus, Simon came to the US on an impulse, stayed for a decade, and released two records; the much loved and very personal Forever and the socio-political Everyman, a record that has grown in relevance as rapid change and social dislocation has increa....... more
Simon Bonney has released a new song ‘Eyes of Blue’, the latest to be taken from his forthcoming compilation album Past, Present, Future, out 3 May 2019 on Mute. Past, Present, Future includes songs from his last two albums Forever (1992) and Everyman (1994) as well as six new tracks, including the title track for an unreleased album, Eyes of Blue.
Listen to ‘Eyes of Blue’ here: http://smarturl.it/SimonBonney
At the age of 16, Simon Bonney formed Crime and the City Solution in an abandoned building in Sydney’s business district. The band embodied the post punk ethos of nihilism and alienation, and Simon’s lyrics and music were informed in part by life as a 14-year-old runaway in 1970s Kings Cross, Sydney’s red-light district. In 1984 after a move to London, Simon formed a new incarnation of the band with Bad Seed Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard (The Birthday Party), Harry Howard (These Immortal Souls) and Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps). After four beautifully chaotic records, a run of cacophonous live shows in Europe and the US, and a standout performance in Wim Wenders’ 1980s masterpiece Wings of Desire, the band broke up, and Simon and Mick relocated to West Berlin. Here Simon would form the longest lasting line-up, the Berlin Crime and the City Solution, which featured Simon, Mick, Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Bronwyn Adams, Thomas Stern, and Chrislo Hass (DAF). From the band’s first offering, Shine, through their final album, The Adversary Live, the band was championed by influential journalists, with its albums regularly showing up in the best-of lists.
In 1992, with Crime and the City Solution on hiatus, Simon came to the US on an impulse, stayed for a decade, and released two records; the much loved and very personal Forever and the socio-political Everyman, a record that has grown in relevance as rapid change and social dislocation has increa....... more
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