John Ellis
Acting
Biography
John Ellis (born 1 June 1952) is an English guitarist and songwriter. Ellis was a co-founder of the pub rock band Bazooka Joe in 1970 and a founding member of the punk rock band The Vibrators. He formed The Vibrators in 1976 while still at art school studying illustration. The Vibrators released two albums with Ellis and toured extensively. Ellis left the Vibrators in 1978 to form the short-lived group Rapid Eye Movement, before embarking on a solo career in 1979, releasing a couple of singles, one of which, "Babies in Jars" (a live Rapid Eye Movement recording) reached #34 on the UK Indie Chart. In 1980, Ellis toured with Peter Gabriel on his "Tour of China 1984", and he appears on the album Peter Gabriel 4. From 1982 onwards, he recorded a number of albums with Peter Hammill, and toured with Hammill (off and on) from 1981 until 1989. From 1981 until 1984, he was a member of the K Group with Peter Hammill. Hammill was "K" (on vocals, piano and guitar), Nic Potter was "Mozart" (on bass guitar), Guy Evans was "Brain" (on drums), and Ellis was "Fury" (on backing vocals and guitar). The Peter Hammill album The Margin is a registration of live-concerts by the K group. Between late 1990 and 2000, Ellis was a member of the band The Stranglers, starting with the album Stranglers in the Night. During that period he also created music for European Art exhibitions and several short films. Ellis left the Stranglers in 2000. He is an exponent of the E-bow guitar. Ellis has contributed to the recordings of Judge Smith, a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator. In 2005, Ellis formed a community organisation called 'The Luma Group', that delivers arts based training and workshops. In 2009, Ellis started his own record label, Chanoyu Records, in order to release his own music. The first release was Wabi Sabi 21©, an album of electronic instrumentals inspired by the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Source: Article "John Ellis (guitarist)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ambitions
Twenty one years after their recording debut, the Stranglers celebrated the release of their 13th album with this sell out concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 13th June 1997. The band were accompanied by an eighteen piece string woman orchestra to perform tracks from throughout the years including 'Golden Brown', 'Skin Deep' and Kinks cover 'All Day and All of the Night'.
The Stranglers: Friday The Thirteenth - Live at the Albert Hall
On 11th August 1990, what began as just another Stranglers gig at Alexandra Palace became their final performance with founding member and frontman Hugh Cornwell. Fortunately, the night was captured on film, preserving a piece of music history for fans to experience again and again.
The Stranglers: Live at Alexandra Palace
Featuring twenty-two music videos from 1983 - 2012
The Stranglers: Never To Look Back - The Video Collection 1983-2012
The Stranglers performing live in Rennes, France
The Stranglers - Rennes Deux - The Return`95
Saturday, October 30th, 1993. The Stranglers are headlining at the launch gig of the "Rock Circus Super Tent", intended to be the means by which large scale concerts can be taken to locations whose lack of appropriate venues usually sees them miss out on such events. It's a novel setting to say the least, and none of us quite knew what to expect as we left the security of our various domains this morning and made our way towards West Sussex. Anyone could be forgiven for thinking that a huge marquee, standing in a field beside a race track is not the best place to be on a bitterly cold October day. When the opening bars of "Midnight Summer Dream" herald the commencement of over 90 minutes of pure Stranglers excellence it will soon become clear that it is the only place to be...
The Stranglers - Live at Fontwell Park
The Stranglers perform live in London during there 1994 tour.
The Stranglers: Body Search - Live in London
The Parr Street Chronicles is a behind-the-scenes visual companion to About Time, featuring candid studio footage of The Stranglers. Originally released as a fan-club-only VHS/DVD by The Stranglers Information Service (SIS), it documents the band’s 1995 recording sessions at Liverpool’s renowned Parr Street Studios. The footage, much of it captured by frontman Paul Roberts himself, offers a raw and intimate glimpse of the band at work, a snapshot of the mid-’90s Stranglers era.
The Stranglers: The Parr Street Chronicies
Filmed live for German television in Bremen on 18 February 1997, Absolut Live captures The Stranglers touring in support of their album Written in Red.
The Stranglers: Absolut Live
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The Vibrators - 1976-1995
Recording from The Stranglers Rennes gig at L'Ubu, Rennes during there 1993 tour 12th March
Stranglers Rennes '93
Adam Ant's live performance of his first album, Dirk Wears White Sox, recorded at London's Aventim Apollo in 2014.