The Coral
You must be doing something right when both Noel Gallagher and Alex Turner think you’re the bee’s knees. The Coral have spent most of this decade knocking out tunes which have rightly given them a reputation as one of the UK’s most durable,...
The Coral
In this most ornate of West End venues, more used to hosting the flamboyant sounds of the English National Opera, The Coral are busy being anything but ornate or flamboyant. The clothes are casual, the between-song banter limited to a couple of...
The Coral
It’s always sad when a relationship ends, unless it involves a minor reality TV star and the singer of a comedy ska band, but if you are embroiled in the emotional scab-picking that precedes The Big Split, you can at least console yourself with...
The Coral
“Cosmic Scouse scene? I remember it well,” fondly recalls The Zutons’ Dave McCabe from the balcony of his multi-million dollar Bel Air mansion. But what of The Coral? After four Top Ten albums in five years (it says here), the Hoylake heads...
The Coral
Do we reward The Coral for continuing to plough the same thankless furrow or do we damn them for the same? We reward them, of course, as long as they keep coming up with uncomplicated, understatedly affecting beat-pop like most of the rest to be...
The Coral: Roots & Echoes
First, some context. Back in 2005, Hoylake hearties The Coral were all at sea. It was all there in their third album, ‘The Invisible Invasion’. A spooked, rickety work conceived as an attempt to “bring back Jim Morrison in a pirate ship”,...
The Coral: The Coral
Dunno how it happened. But thanks to a glitch in the time-space continuum, The Coral 's brilliant, bizarre debut album arrives with us in mid-2002, fresh from the British beat boom of 1964. En route they've navigated their way via Country Joe &...
The Coral : The Invisible Invasion
There's a lot to thank The Coral for - almost single-handedly they saved Liverpool's music scene from being totally swamped by stocky guys ploddingly dreaming of getting to fetch supper for Noel Gallagher one day, and reconnected the city with its...
The Coral : Nightfreaks And The Sons Of Becker
After a year overflowing with surreality (Blaine in a box; the recent cringe inducing burst of rugby ‘mania’; the couldn’t-make-it-up rise of The Darkness[/url]) it seems only fitting that January should kick off with the unscheduled...
Coral : King's Parade, New Brighton
New Brighton has never seen anything like it. Look past the tower blocks, the la-di-da seaview apartments and the skyscraping cranes straight out of Brando's 'On The Waterfront' and there are five thousand people monging out in a big suburban...
