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Ralfe Band

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Genre
  
Alternative/Indie

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Origin
  
Oxford, United Kingdom (2005)

Albums
  
Son Be Wise, Attic Thieves, Bunny and the Bull, Swords, Women of Japan

Record labels
  
Talitres, Skint Records, Loose Music

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Profiles

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Ralfe Band is the work of English songwriter, Oly Ralfe.

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The debut album 'Swords' was released in UK in 2005 by Skint Records and elsewhere in Europe in 2007 by Talitres, with Mojo awarding a 4-star review, calling it "a whiskey-soured folk trip from east to west.. .Ralfe's moon-eyed beauty is simply the work of one vivid imagination". The second album 'Attic Thieves' was released in 2008 by Loose and Talitres Records, and their third, 'Son Be Wise' was released by Highline Records in 2013.

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Following this Ralfe Band created the soundtrack for the feature film Bunny and the Bull. The soundtrack album to Bunny and the Bull was released in 2010. The album was well received and scored an 8/10 NME review, "The 22 tracks here recall the deft melancholy of the Amelie soundtrack... The kind of regally drunk spirit last heard on David Dundas' equally fine Withnail & I soundtrack. Score!"

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The band have toured across Europe and have performed on main stages at the Glastonbury Festival, Reading and Leeds, CMJ New York, SWSW Austin as well as at festivals in Ireland, Italy and Turkey.

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The band also appeared in The Mighty Boosh television series in the episode 'The Legend of Old Gregg' where they played musicians in a pub.

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Oly Ralfe is a visual artist and filmmaker. He created the imagery for Ralfe Band’s records and also the animated video ‘Women Of Japan’ which won Best Music Video at SXSW. Another award followed for Oly Ralfe’s film ‘The Ballad of AJ Weberman’, a feature documentary about the notorious Bob Dylan obsessive and pioneer of ‘garbology’. The film won the Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards and was screened on BBC 4 on Dylan’s 70th birthday. Oly also collaborated with Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, contributing songs and cameos to The Mighty Boosh TV shows and poems for the Boosh book. In 2010 Oly directed the film The Mighty Boosh On Tour - Journey of the Childmen

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Studio albums

  • Swords (October 2005)
  • Attic Thieves (October 2008)
  • Son Be Wise (May 2013)
  • Soundtracks

  • Bunny and the Bull - Original Soundtrack (January 2010)
  • Singles and EPs

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  • Albatross Waltz (May 2005) 7", download
  • Fifteen Hundred Years (August 2005) 7", download
  • Women of Japan (April 2006) CD, 7", download
  • Attics / Stumble (December 2008) 7", download
  • Songs

    Come On Go WildSon Be Wise · 2013
    Parkbench BluesSwords · 2005
    Women of JapanSwords · 2005

    References

    Ralfe Band Wikipedia