In December 2010, Echo & the Bunnymen went on tour playing their first two albums Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here in their entirety. [40] However, their plans were thrown into disarray when Pete de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident on 14 June 1989. [27] De Freitas was on his way to Liverpool from London to take part in the group's first rehearsal with Burke, when his Ducati motorbike collided with another vehicle on the A51 At Longdon Green in Staffordshire, killing him instantly. He was 27 years old and was survived by his widow and their infant daughter, who was born in 1988. According to Sergeant: “It’s all pretty dark”. He wasn’t wrong, but it didn’t matter – with Ocean Rain, the Bunnymen became music immortals, confirming their place in the gloomier recesses of British pop. We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest. [11]

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 7): W-13 KD KODE 1 B-1 WITH FLOWERS A̶̷̲̅N̶̷̲̅D̶̷̲̅ IN THEIR HAIR "" ARUN In 2002, the group received the Q Inspiration award. [32] The award is for inspiring "new generations of musicians, songs and music lovers in general." The band were said to be worthy winners as they have done much to promote the Mersey music scene. [33] In a later interview for Magnet magazine, McCulloch said "It validates everything that we've tried to achieve—cool, great timeless music. It's not like an inspiration award affecting the past, it's affecting the current music." [34] Like Porcupine, the making of the album proved to be a difficult and protracted process. Early sessions with Gil Norton took place at the famous Cologne studio of German producer Conny Plank, but both band and label were unhappy with the results and these recordings were shelved. They began re-recording material from the Cologne sessions with Laurie Latham in Brussels, but the sessions were grueling, with Latham spending up to a month on a single song, and tensions within the band were being inflamed by McCulloch's increasing alcohol use, and the star treatment he was being accorded. Joe Brown (18 August 1984). "Bunnymen: Based on Bowie". The Washington Post . Retrieved 31 July 2022.In a 20 April 2008 interview with the Sunday Mail, Ian McCulloch announced The Fountain as the title of the new Echo & the Bunnymen album with producers John McLaughlin and Simon Perry, [37] which was originally due to be released in 2008 but was finally released on 12 October 2009. [38] " Think I Need It Too", the first single from the album, was released on 28 September 2009. a b c Crocodiles (CD booklet). Echo & the Bunnymen. Warner Strategic Marketing. 2003. 2564-61161-2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Hugh Jones was promoted from engineer to producer on the Bunnymen’s not-so-difficult second album, which went on to win Best Album and Best Dressed LP accolades at the NME Awards, and has a place in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, despite the band’s modest success Stateside. Much of 1982 was taken with the difficult and protracted process of recording of their highly anticipated third album Porcupine, which reunited them with Crocodiles producer Ian Broudie (who was also Sergeant's housemate at the time). Several members also undertook outside projects during the year. Pete de Freitas produced and played drums on Liverpool band The Wild Swans' debut single "Revolutionary Spirit", and lead guitarist Will Sergeant recorded a solo album of instrumental music titled Themes for 'Grind' (1982). [22]

Higgs, John (2013). The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds. Phoenix. pp.38–39. ISBN 9781780226552. Echo & the Bunnymen's debut single " The Pictures on My Wall" was released on Bill Drummond& David Balfe's Zoo Records in May 1979, the B-side being "Read It in Books" (also recorded by The Teardrop Explodes approximately six months later as the B-side of their final Zoo Records single "Treason"). Though credited as a McCulloch/Cope collaboration, McCulloch has denied on more than one occasion that Cope had any involvement with its writing. [14] [15]

a b Harrison, Andrew (2004). "Echo & the Bunnymen: (various reissues)". Blender. ISSN 1534-0554. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009 . Retrieved 5 May 2010.

With the recording of Porcupine completed at the end of 1982, Echo & the Bunnymen played a free show before 20,000 adoring fans in Liverpool’s Sefton Park before flying to Iceland for The Cutter shoot.

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It’s alluding to the present phase of the Great Work, which is an ages-long process of human progress/evolution.” Wonder if Mac knows that?