Skeletal Family - Restless
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2013
- Katrina Phillips sings lead vocals--in this iteration of the band Skeletal Family-- for the song Restless from 1986.
Skeletal Family is the only group that sprang up from Keighley, West Yorkshire in the early 1980s. As a "gothic" rock band, the formed up in December 1981 rising from the ashes of group, called The Elements, and took their name from the title of the song "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" from the 1974 David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs.
The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass guitar), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (keyboard/saxophone), and Steve Crane (drums). In 1983, after their first single, the band signed to the independent record label, Red Rhino Records, and recorded its first single for Red Rhino, "The Night", just after losing their original drummer Crane. Crane was replaced by Howard Daniels. Daniels soon left, joining My Pierrot Dolls, and he was replaced by Martin Henderson (formerly of The Last Laugh). Skeletal Family's first album, Burning Oil, recorded in four days at a cost of £640, was released by Red Rhino in August 1984. It topped the UK Independent Chart, staying in the top 10 until the end of the year. The band began touring with The Sisters of Mercy during the Sisters' First and Last and Always tour. The group released Futile Combat in 1985, along with the "Promised Land" single.
The group then signed with Chrysalis Records and Anne-Marie Hurst and Henderson left the band to develop new projects. Hurst eventually teamed up with Gary Marx in Ghost Dance. Henderson teamed up with ex-The March Violets vocalist Simon D to create The Batfish Boys. The former Colourfield backing vocalist Katrina Phillips replaced Hurst and Kevin Hunter replaced Henderson. The remaining members of the group soon disbanded after being dropped from the Chrysalis label. Trotwood and Hunter formed a new band, Say You.
In 2002, Skeletal Family reformed, now with Claire Bannister on vocals. They played several high profile shows, including the Wave-Gotik-Treffen three times and Drop Dead New York.
Skeletal Family's final album, Songs of Love, Hope and Despair, was released in September 2009. Two months later the group announced that it had disbanded again.
Taylor formed a new band, Sub Rosa, with Ashley Cartwright, the guitarist and vox writer of the New Model Army hit "51st State", Steve Wilson who stood in on bass guitar for Skeletal Family on several occasions and was also in the Shakes with Ashley, and Peter Kaberry on drums from the cult metal band Dawn Watcher.
In 2012, Hurst, Nowell and Greenwood reformed Skeletal Family with Owen Richards on guitars and Adrian Osadzenko on drums.
:: Restless ::
So what happens now raising
Eyes against this browbeating
Drums and rhythms in my bones they
Won't leave me alone
Sleep sounds like a dream to the
Likes of me, and a
Ring inside my senses
Beats those sheep at leaping fences
I'm going to be restless, til i've found you
I'm going to be restless, til you come back
Forever restless, forever restless
Forever restless, forever restless
Tick ticking click clicking, over and over then over
Clockworking me insane
Try to find the peace of mind that
Lets the spring unwind again
Sleep sounds like a dream to the
Likes of me, and a
Ring inside my senses
Beats those sheep at leaping fences
I'm going to be restless til i've found you
I'm going to be restless til you come back
Forever restless, forever restless
Forever restless, forever restless 
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Katrina!!! WOW!! Woman, what a voice! 🤯💖💖💖💖💖💖
Best thing Skeletal Family ever did. Katrina is Mesmerizing
I think so
Great song, ace guitar work and powerful performance from Katrina. I only came to this band from checking on Katrina when she dueted with Terry Hall on the superb "Thinking of you".
Wonder what happened to Katrina?
Love her
Great tune and voice as well
Glorious sound from Katrina great times
More than a little underrated and I love the character given to Katrina Phillips by the missing tooth
I have just came across this line up of Skeletal Family, and Katrina's voice amazing🔥! I think the bands like Skeletal Family, are the little gems I keep finding these days.
I've just discovered Skeletal Family fairly recently and just picked up this single. She's one of the best vocalists ever and very underrated.
Katrina in this video
Or Anne Marie the original vocalist ?
@@Grahamlad I find this voice with the sound of the earlier band is great but the original energy was tougher with the original singer. It felt more punk, this makes them cross into goth pop. Both are babes.
I was today years old when I realised that the person singing this is the same person who dueted with Terry Hall on 'Thinking of You'. I knew that Skeletal Family had had more than one singer in their history, but I had no idea that one of them was Katrina.
Tremendo tema de Skeletal Family
asi es
The infamous Russel Senior / Jarvis Cocker student video!
It's a pity this version of the band didn't release an album. The demos and BBC takes of then-unreleased songs on the boxed set (which doesn't even include Big Love/Just A Minute) show their potential. (A) they hadn't departed drastically from the old Skeletal Family sound ,and (B) Katrina actually had a great voice. On the box it sounds more like a big resonant contralto, plus the Yorkshire accent (well, how else do you follow a soprano with an Irish accent? go to the other extreme...).
I agree it’s great.
Being a purist and originally from just outside Keighley I am all Anne.
And old 12" that I still love; all 3 tracks. I dig Katrina's (obvious) influence from Siouxsie Sioux in this video; her (physically) miming the lyrics as she sings.
That was fuckin' great hearing this tune again. I really need to invest in one of those mini portable record players.
She looks very attractive, despite the missing tooth.
Jarv & Russ!
very Cleo-era Violets sound....
Similar scenario, too, RE the Violets and the Skels swapping singers. Still, *love* this 12"; all 3 tracks.
what album is this off of?
SOLO SINGLE DE 1986
Great song but the video is a bit confusing. Lol
The composition of the shots is bad, especially the closeups. Her head occupies the bottom half of the frame. If this kind of framing were any more common, people would just walk around punching each other in the face.
Le falta una silla a ese comedor
Good