Genres Folk rock Origin Cornwall, United Kingdom Record label Red Records | Years active 2004 – c.2007 Genre Folk rock | |
Labels Zebs Records
Red Records Members Philip Burley
Florence MacDonald
Stephen Burley | ||
The Red Army was a self-described folk rock band from St Day in Cornwall, England, UK. Other sources, however, described them as "antifolk", and from Truro.
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The band was active from 2004 to c.2007, playing in excess of two hundred performances, making their officially released debut on 29 January 2007 on the compilation album Zebs: The Sound Of Young Cornwall.
The band gained radio plays on BBC 6 Music, XFM, Radio Cornwall, Pirate FM, Atlantic FM and Totally Radio. They played at the Tapestry Goes West Festival three years running and the Lowender Peran festival for two years, and also performed at The Hall for Cornwall, The Acorn and Bunters.
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Influences
According to their Myspace page, the band's influences included: The Las, The Coral, Regina Spektor, The Libertines, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, The Family Cat, Adam Green, The Smiths. The band covered Regina Spektor's song "Edit" on multiple occasions.
Songwriting techniques often bear homage to Merseybeat, particularly from songs like "Freedom Song" (The La's) and "Dreaming of You" (The Coral). Going further back, there are obvious undertones of influence by The Kinks, and, in part, piano influence from the likes of impressionist composer Debussy.
The Red Army are referenced in the Teenage Fanclub song "When I Still Have Thee" (2010).