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Brilliant were a British pop/rock group active in the 1980s. Although not commercially successful, they remain notable because of the personnel involved - Jimmy Cauty, later to find fame and fortune as one half of The KLF; June Montana, who later provided vocals for a KLF spin-off project, Disco 2000; Martin Glover aka Youth, formerly of Killing Joke and subsequently a top producer/remixer; and (prior to the band signing with WEA) Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor. Equally notable was their management (Bill Drummond, the other member of The KLF, and David Balfe) and production team (Stock Aitken Waterman). For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ...
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Rough Trade on 130 Talbot Road (nearby Notting Hill station) Rough Trade Records is a British independent record label. ...
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James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
Martin Youth Glover (born December 23, 1960) is an influential record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. ...
Ben Watkins Ben Watkins is a British electronic music artist and producer, best known as being the principle member of the band Juno Reactor. ...
James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
The KLF - also known by various other names including The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, The K Foundation, and 2K - were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Disco 2000: Uptight (Everythings Alright) (KLF Communications D 2003) Disco 2000 were a British pop band, a spinoff project of The KLF. Vocal duties were handled by Cressida Cauty (wife of KLF member Jimmy Cauty) and June Montana (former vocalist of Jimmy Cautys previous band Brilliant). ...
Martin Youth Glover (born December 23, 1960) is an influential record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. ...
Lead singer Jaz Coleman dominates the cover of Killing Jokes 1986 release Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. ...
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Ben Watkins Ben Watkins is a British electronic music artist and producer, best known as being the principle member of the band Juno Reactor. ...
Currently active as a writer and artist, Bill Drummond (born April 29, 1953) is best known as co-founder of The KLF, the avant-garde pop group of the late eighties, the K Foundation, its nineties avant-art media-manipulating successor, and for burning a million pounds in 1994. ...
David Balfe (c. ...
(From left to right) Pete Waterman, Matt Aitken and Mike Stock in 1987. ...
Reviews
Trouser Press reviewer Ira Robbins called Kiss the Lips of Life "dismal" and the band "cynical"[1] and "wretched", adding that "[their] lasting cultural significance amounts to its inclusion of ex-Zodiac Mindwarp keyboardist/guitarist Jimmy Cauty, with whom [Bill] Drummond concocted the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (JAMs)"[2]. Cover of the April 1983 issue of Trouser Press magazine (#84) Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in 1974 by editor/publisher Ira Robbins. ...
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The All Music Guide were a little more generous, calling Brilliant an initially "promising act: a more soulful take on the aggressive funk-rock of Killing Joke" but added that, after being teamed up with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, they "came up with a generic pop-dance album that fell well short of the original concept". Awarding Kiss the Lips of Life two stars out of five, they added that "What aggression there is comes courtesy of Jimmy Cauty's metallic guitar solos; the sterile synth whitewash of SAW dominates the rest of the mix, and vocalist June Montana isn't strong or distinctive enough to fight through it"[3]. The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ...
Discography
Singles - "Colours", 198? UK (Risk Records/Rough Trade)
- "Soul Murder", 1984 UK (Food Records)
- "Wait For It", 1984 UK (WEA/Food Records)
- "It's A Man's Man's Man's World", 1985 UK (WEA/Food Records)
- "Love Is War", 1986 UK (WEA/Food Records)
- "Somebody", 1986 UK (WEA/Food Records) USA (Atlantic)
- "The End Of The World", 1986 UK (WEA/Food Records)
Albums - Kiss The Lips Of Life, 1986 UK (WEA/Food Records) USA (Atlantic)
References - ↑ Trouserpress.com - Youth and Ben Watkins
- ↑ Trouserpress.com - The KLF
- ↑ Album review (AMG)
External links - All Music Guide entry
- KLF discography (includes Brilliant)
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