Robert Ian McNabb (born November 3, 1960) is a British singer-songwriter and musician. Earlier frontman The Icicle Works, McNabb has started his solo career and performed alongside Ringo Starr, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Mike Scott (from The Waterboys), and Danny Thompson of the Pentangle folk band.
McNabb's first book, an autobiography titled Merseybeast , was published in October 2008.
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Robert Ian McNabb was born at Lourdes Hospital (now Spire Liverpool Hospital) at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the first and only child of Patricia (nÃÆ'Ã… © e Forsyth) and Robert Gerard McNabb.
At the age of 18 months Ian has pneumonia, leaving it with a damaged left lung.
Ian has a short task as a child model, and the resulting photo is then displayed in the art of The Potential album: The Best of Ian McNabb.
Since seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey as a child, McNabb has become an enthusiastic space enthusiast. He has also been a supporter of Liverpool Football Club since childhood.
McNabb cites his earliest musical influences while watching T. Rex's Born to Boogie and That'll Be the Day starring David Essex at age 10. After this he started attending Guitar and Music theory lessons.
McNabb's first musical performance was to play You Sixteen at the Fairfield Conservative Club in Liverpool in 1974. In 1975 Ian auditioned and joined the young cabaret group Daybreak (Later changed to "Young World"). The group played in male clubs around North-West England during the mid-1970s. The group did not succeed in auditioning for the television talent show, Opportunity Knocks. Chris Sharrock then joins the group, where McNabb first made friends with him, he will continue to play drums for The Icicle Works. McNabb wrote his first song at the age of 15, entitled "Apologize (I Will)".
McNabb quit Young World at the end of 1976 and joined a boy teenage cabaret group called City Lamp . In 1977 the group auditioned for New Faces ITV but to no avail. McNabb began attending Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama.
Ian quit the City Lights in February 1980, after agreeing to start a band with Chris Sharrock.
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Icicle Works
McNabb became the lead vocalist and songwriter for the band, founded in 1980 and named "The Icicle Works". Other band members are Chris Sharrock on Drums and Chris Layhe on Bass guitar and backing vocals.
During 1981, McNabb auditioned for Barry Grant's role at Brookside but to no avail. He also plays extra in many of today's television dramas.
Icicle Works has been successful in the UK with 20 singles "Love Is A Wonderful Color" in 1983. They also reached the top 40 in North America with the single "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" in 1984.
Icicle Works continued recording until the 1980s with limited success. In the UK, some of the band's advanced singles charted, although none reached higher than No. 1. 52. In the US, they briefly made the Modern Rock charts in 1988, but did not gain further mainstream recognition and were considered in North America. as a one-shot miracle.
The original line-up of The Icicle Works broke up in 1988. McNabb collected a new generation of Icicle Works "second generation" in 1989, which released one album in 1990. However, the album was commercially unsuccessful and the band broke up. next year.
In October 2006, after 15 years as a solo artist, McNabb unexpectedly revived the name "The Icicle Works" for a series of British concerts. However, the old version of the McNabb band does not feature the original Icicle Works member other than McNabb himself. In essence, McNabb seems to re-brand itself, using a somewhat more successful trade name to increase its exposure. Throughout 2007 and until early 2008, McNabb played as a solo artist and The Icicle Works. He later retired his name for several years, before playing some "30th Anniversary" shows as The Icicle Works in 2011.
Solo Career
1991-1997: This Upward Era
Around the time of the Icicle Works split in 1990, McNabb spent some time as a de facto member of The Wild Swans, playing guitar and singing background vocals. The Wild Swans were dissolved in the late 1990s, and McNabb later issued two solo singles in 1991 for little notice. He later reappeared in 1993 with a demo collection that will be the basis of his first solo album, Truth and Beauty . Recorded with shoelaces, it won him a record deal with Andrew Lauder's New Andrew Lauder Label.
The first single of the right album If Love Was Like Guitars became a minor UK hit in 1993. After this, the 1991 Great Dreams of Heaven single was re-released, but failed to get much airplay, possibly because of lyrical references such as "babies being HIV-born"
The next single taken from the album, I'm Game, failed on the chart, so This Way Up went for a different strategy. (I Go) My Own Way was re-recorded with John Leckie's The Roses producer at the helm, but it also failed to have a significant impact on the UK charts. However, This Road Remains with McNabb and vice versa.
Post- Truth and Beauty , McNabb is allegedly inspired by a rockier voice by the engineer who controls the notes, telling him, "Aye, Ian, your rocking days are behind you. "Legend says that McNabb is back to his home in Liverpool, and record a demo of what will be the opening actus of Head Like a Rock , "Fire Inside My Soul".
Labels boss Andrew Lauder then suggested that McNabb go to record in America, who is skeptical about McNabb. He cunningly advises to praise that his new material sounds like Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and if Lauder can get Crazy Horse to play on the record, he'll go to America. Several phone calls later, McNabb found himself in a Los Angeles studio with Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot. This cast-iron rhythm section appears in four out of ten songs on Head Like a Rock , including no. 54 UK hit "You Must Be Prepared to Dream". The other single album, "Go into the Light", did not feature Crazy Horse and peaked at UK No. 66.
Head Like a Rock was later nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Award, and although M People would end up taking home awards, the officer publicity around the award nomination album prompted Head Like A Rock to the UK album charts, where he reached the peak in No. 1. 29.
Molina and Talbot toured with McNabb in 1994, featuring on a short live bonus CD that accompanied the next album, Merseybeast . The show also featured Noel Gallagher of Oasis on an unpredictable rhythm guitar as the group covering The Seeds '"Pushin' Too Hard". Gallagher's refusal to be credited is reported to inspire McNabb's compositions and then "Do not Patronize Me", although McNabb has always denied these allegations.
The 1996 album Merseybeast saw McNabb with a new backing band called "The Afterlife". But despite high hopes for the new CD, the first single album, the fierce "Do not Put Your Spell on Me" just hit UK No. 72. The second single, the album's title track ( Merseybeast , which saw McNabb roam his scouse's roots and merge them with West Coast Americana) fared worse, hitting England no. 74.
Although generally well received by critics and fans, in the end Merseybeast failed to capitalize on the commercial success of its predecessor. This resulted in a two-year absence on McNabb's part of the tour under his own name, and recorded a complete studio album.
In 1997, This Way Up parted ways with McNabb, and released a collection of 'best-of' titled My Own Way: The Words & amp; Music from Ian McNabb.
1998-present: Fairfield Records era
On his return to doing his own material, McNabb focuses on acoustic music, which leads to a residency at Birmingham club, Ronnie Scott. The material that emerged from this became a low-key album A Party Political Broadcast on Emotional Party Name, released by McNabb on its own Fairfield label in 1998. Aside from McNabb, the only other musician on the album was Waterboys Mike Scott and Anthony Thistlethwaite, and legendary bassist Danny Thompson. The album also produced a single, Little Princess that failed to chart.
McNabb follows APPBOBOTEP with a live acoustic album, Live at Life (2000), compiled from a pair of Christmas performances in 1999. The album includes a new song, "Why Is The Beauty So Sad ", which continues to link McNabb's dislike of the celebrity culture as mentioned earlier in" Do not Patronize Me ".
Ian McNabb (2001) marked the full return of McNabb band, and was released by Sanctuary Records. The opening song of the album, "Livin 'Proof (Miracles Can Happen)", was written for a recent Go-Go reunion, but was rejected by the band. The McNabb version was pressed as a promo single.
The album is quite critically accepted, with reviewers complaining about the lack of variation in the rock bombast of the record as compared to its two predecessors. 2001 also sees the publication of demo and censored collections, Waifs and Strays , which include previously unreleased versions and an alternative version of familiar McNabb beans.
McNabb returned to his own Fairfield label in 2002, and issued a low key The Gentleman Adventurer . Best is described as a semi-acoustic album, it's similar in spirit to his first solo album, Truth and Beauty , with occasional use of drum machines to accompany more optimistic numbers like "Is not No Way to Behave". Almost entirely by McNabb (with the help of his longtime collaborator and bassist at Icicle Works Roy Corkill), the album takes on a variety of styles from rock, through ballads, funk touches, and acoustic storytellers.
Another "bit and pieces" collection, Boots followed in 2003, the title was McNabb's nickname (after his hobby of wearing Beatles shoes in the mid-80s while with The Icicle Works), and referring to the ' official bootleg 'from the release. Double disk sets include some very difficult items to find, demos, and alternative versions.
2004 saw McNabb release his second album 'Best Of', Potential: The Best of Ian McNabb . It covers all of its solo oeuvre, featuring eclectic tastes and eclectic music.
In 2005, McNabb managed to push one, "Let the Young Girl Do What He Wants" to No. 38 on the UK charts. This is McNabb's highest chart that puts it as a solo artist, and his biggest hit since The Icicle Works "Love Is a Wonderful Color" reached No. 1. 15 in early 1984, span more than 21 years. The success of this unexpected chart was aided by his fanbase who faithfully purchased several different formats of the single in an attempt to gain greater publicity and recognition for his then-current album, Before All of This . But despite the support of a number of prominent DJs such as Jeremy Vine and Janice Long on BBC Radio 2, the widespread success continues to avoid McNabb.
Then in 2005, McNabb released People Do not Stop Believin , an album of b-sides and outtakes from Before All of This .
In December 2007, McNabb's second live album, How We Live: At Philharmonic , was published. The album was taken from two performances in June 2007 at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall.
In January and February 2008, McNabb was involved with "The Number Ones Project", a concert and a compilation album celebrating fifty-six No. 1 Liverpool's number one on the UK charts. McNabb played in a January concert, and later appeared on the album, released in February, with his studio cover of "Ladies" John Lennon.
In late 2008, McNabb participated in City Lights concert reunion, an early pre-Icicle Works band that he became a member of as a teenager. At the end of the year, McNabb released his autobiography, titled Merseybeast: A Musical Memoir .
McNabb's eighth studio album, Great Things, was first available in gigs in September 2009. In November, it was made available for sale on the McNabb website. Her ninth album, Little Episodes is available exclusively through her website starting in February 2012.
McNabb's tenth studio album, Eclectic Warrior, was created as a promise music project, and was released on Monday, March 18, 2013. Liverpudlian band Cold Shoulder played on recordings, and toured with McNabb on the next tour.
In June 2014, Mcnabb joined the radio station 'Radio Wirral' and was appointed to hold a regular Friday night slot from 10 pm to midnight. This slot, entitled 'The Ian McNabb Show', started broadcasting on June 20, 2014 and continued for several months.
In August 2015, McNabb released the album beside Krugerrands, releasing both in collaboration with Cold Shoulder. He also revived The Icicle Works moniker and the current lineup for a series of sporadic concerts for the rest of the year and enters the year 2016.
In March 2016, McNabb released his first cover album, titled Yours. Star Smile Strong, his eleventh studio album, was released in April 2017.
Recently, McNabb was involved in a fight when getting a taxi close to his home in Liverpool. As she enters the taxi, she is approached by a local 'known' woman claiming that she steals a taxi. To his amazement, he later experienced a ferocious attack. The woman climbs into the back seat and starts showering on Ian's head. Ian managed to deflect the upcoming blow but it was only through the intervention of the taxi driver that the situation did not increase further. Somehow McNabb, though so shocked by the incident managed to laugh the incident, said "The lady is crazy! I'm late for the meeting so I jump in the back of the taxi She comes out of nowhere and climbs into a taxi like an extra out of a zombie movie. know if he's doing something, but he's not there, maybe he's in Spice, he does not look human.It's so scary and I'm grateful the taxi driver calmly spread the situation.I ordered that bloody taxi too, the bad land! "No further action is taken.
Solo discography
View Ian McNabb Discography & amp; List of songs recorded by Ian McNabb
Albums
- Truth and Beauty (1993)
- Head Like a Rock (1994)
- Merseybeast (1996)
- Party Political Broadcasts on behalf of the Emotional Party (1998)
- Ian McNabb (2001)
- The Gentleman Adventurer (2002)
- Before All This (2005)
- Great Things (2009)
- Little Episodes (2012)
- Eclectic Fighters (2013)
- Star Smile Strong (2017)
Side albums
- Waifs and Strays (2001)
- Boots (2003)
- People Do not Stop Believin (2005)
- Krugerrands (2015)
- Yours (2016)
Collaboration with other artists
Around the time the Icicle Works "second generation" subsided, McNabb became the de facto member of The Wild Swans, playing guitar and singing back-up vocals on their second studio album, 1990's Space Flower .
In addition, he worked with Ian Broudie on Broudie's studio project, The Lightning Seeds, providing background vocals on the band's first three albums, released between 1990 and 1994. McNabb also co-wrote two songs with Broudie ending in The Lightning. Seed's second and third albums, 1992's Sense and 1994's Jollification .
1998 saw McNabb as part of a tour group for Mike Scott and The Waterboys, playing bass and sometimes keyboard. He also had the opportunity to serve as a tour bassist for one of his heroes, Ringo Starr, whose son Zak Starkey had rested the early music industry in 1988 when McNabb hired him to become a member of the slow-moving version of The Icicle Works..
McNabb has also donated guitars on the Amsterdam album The Journey (2005) and debut album Gary Cooke Songs for Everyday Use (2006).
References
- "The Crazy Dreamer", reviews on Head Like a Rock , from Vox , Ã, ???? 1994.
- Allmusic.com entries for Icicle Works
- AllMusic.com entry for Ian McNabb.
- Information posted by Ian McNabb in the Yahoo Groups discussion list
- Biography on Ian McNabb's official site
- Liner notes on McNabb's album, especially Waifs and Strays , Boots
- Right to Imagination & amp; Madness , by Martin Roach (London: Independent Music Press, 1994) ISBN: 1-897783-03-5.
- Guinness Rockopedia , by David Roberts (London: Guinness World Records Ltd., 1998) ISBN 0-85112-072-5.
- The Great Rock Discography , by M.C. Strong (Edinburgh: Mojo Books, 2000) ISBN: 1-84195-017-3.
External links
- Ian McNabb's official website
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