The Outfield -Biography

The Outfield -Biography Originally from the east end of London, the three founding members, John Spinks, Tony Lewis and Alan Jackman began recording and playing together as "The Baseball Boys" in e early 80's. They played a series of shows around London and recorded a couple of early demos, which ventually caught the ear of management who put them in touch with Columbia Records in the U.S. Shortl thereaftE~r,they were signed as a CBS/Columbia Records recording artist and began polishing up the song which would become their debut album, "Play Deep" released in 1985. This album spawned a series of hit ingles including "Say It Isn't So", "All The Love In The World", "Everytime You Cry" and the most memora Ie of all, "Your Love". In support of "Play Deep", they mounted a massive summertour,openingforJo mey and Starship. In 1986, they began recording the "Play Deep" follow-up album, titled " in 1987, was no disappointment to fans and cranked out more hit singles, such f angin"'.1hiSs, "Since You've album, Been released Gone" and the groove oriented ballad, "No Surrender". No strangers to the road, the headed "back out on tour with Night Ranger, in support of "Bangin"'. The band's third album, "Voices of Babylon" for CBS/Columbia, was r leased in 1988. The lead-off single, "Voices of Babylon" was well received in Billboard's Rock Charts. Other noteable tunes from this album included "My Paradise" and "The Night Ain't Over". This album marked bit of a change in the band's sound, it was an incredibly well produced album with a very polished sound. twas deJ:initely the band at their best. After the recording of this album, original drummer, Alan Jackman, made th~~decision to leave the band before the supporting tour began. Touring with a session drummer f om Londlon, that summer, "The Outfield" played a series of very successfulshows that opened for "Mike d The Mechanics". In many cases, getting a more energetic and excitable response from the crowd than th headliner. ) With the dawn of the early 90's, John Spinks and Tony Lewis set out to record their fourth album, on a new label, MCA. The band began experimenting more with electronic dr ms and a session drummer named, Simon Dawson. The album titled "Diamond Days" (East London sIan for: The Best of Times) was released in 1990and produced one of their biggest hits, the ballad "For You". is single' rocketed up the pop and adult -contemporary charts because of the connection many people f It to the song with the Gulf War closing in. Because of the war, the band was unable to tour in support of is album, choosing rather to go back and begin work on their fifth album and the second for MCA called "Rockeye". This album was much more a throw back to the band's earlier sound and featured more of an ergetic "live drum" sound from Simon Dawson who was becoming more involved in the sound of the b d. With ~;ongslike "Closer To Me" and "Winning It All" this album definately satisfied the rock craving am ng fans! The song "Winning it All" was used on numerous sports broadcasts and videos for the NBA, as well s landinJ~on the soundtrack for the Disney movie "The Mighty Ducks". As music changed in the mid 90's, the band saw classic, well written p p / rock become overthrown by the raw grunge sound of band's like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. It became clear them that they would need to take a few steps back and see where all this was leading. Neyer one to folIo fads or trends, and not interested in changing their style to mimic the sound-a-like and look-a-like b ds of the 90's, they chose to stay out of the limelight and rather opted to write and record for themselves til the rune was right. In 1998, as a renewed interest in the music of the 80's began to surface, the band nce agaul started compiling material for a new CD. In 1998 they released a self produced CD, foi the fan cl b and tour only, that was appropriately titled "It Ain't Over". The band toured in the fall of 1998and pIa ed to eag;er,sold out crowds all across the U.S and South America. Highlighting the tour was a show in Trini ad where they played along with "Survivor" and "Air Supply" for nearly 40,000fans. Having received am ssive response from "It Ain't Over" and having sold out every last copy of it, they decided to look into maj distribution. Artist Representation: Danny Roberts 404-309-1609,[email protected] .

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