Rooney (UK band) explained

Rooney

Rooney were a British DIY band that released three albums between 1998 and 2000, including the debut album Time on Their Hands which received much support from John Peel, who booked them for a session in 1999.[1] [2] They reached number 44 in Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998.[3] [4] The lo-fi music incorporated sometimes humorous — but often unsettling — spoken-sung lyrics describing everyday, mundane activities and observations, an approach which was consistent across all Rooney releases.[5]

History

Artist Paul Rooney self-released the first Rooney album Time on Their Hands on Common Culture Records in 1998.[6] The album was widely and favourably reviewed, including notices by Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times,[7] Tom Ridge of The Wire[8] and Gary Valentine of Mojo.[9] The continued support of John Peel earned a place for Went to Town at number 44 in John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998,[10] [11] and a Rooney Peel session was broadcast in 1999.

By 1999 Rooney became a band with new members Colin Cromer and Ian Jackson. The second Rooney album On Fading Out was released in 1999,[12] and the project ostensibly ended with the third and final album, On the Closed Circuit, in November 2000,[13] [14] [15] though gigs continued sporadically until late 2002.[16]

In 2006 comedian and writer Stewart Lee curated the Rooney track Into the Lens for the CD/book The Topography of Chance, which also included Mark E Smith, Derek Bailey and Simon Munnery.[17] [18] The Rooney Peel session was repeated in 2016 on Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music show,[19] and an EP of the session, entitled This Job's Forever - The Peel Session, was released on Owd Scrat Records in 2020.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Participants CAA Workshop . 2023-03-24 . miriad.mmu.ac.uk.
  2. Web site: Pool Of Sound - Rooney . thefootballvoice.com . 2023-04-05 . en-GB.
  3. Web site: Paul Rooney – Lucy Over Lancashire (SueMi) . 2023-03-24 . coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com . en-GB.
  4. Paul Rooney: New Work . University of Dundee . 2023-04-05.
  5. Cowley . Julian . January 2010 . Cross Platform: Paul Rooney . The Wire . 311 . 20.
  6. Web site: 16 March 1999 . Common Culture . 2014-03-06 . The Guardian.
  7. Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. The Sunday Times. Oct. 1998
  8. Ridge, Tom. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. The Wire. Nov. 1998
  9. Valentine, Gary. 'Rooney, Time on Their Hands'. Mojo. Nov. 1998
  10. Web site: Rocklist.net...John Peel's Festive 50's - 1977 - 2003  ...... rocklistmusic.co.uk. 2014-03-06.
  11. Web site: BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Festive 50s - 1998 . 2023-03-24 . BBC.
  12. Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, On Fading Out'. The Sunday Times. April 2000
  13. Web site: On the Closed Circuit - Rooney Release Credits . 2023-03-24 . AllMusic . en.
  14. Lee, Stewart. 'Rooney, On the Closed Circuit'. The Sunday Times. Dec. 2000
  15. Web site: Multimedia artist Paul Rooney releases new album . 2023-03-24 . The Wire . en.
  16. Web site: Grizedale Arts: Artists & Contributors: Rooney . 2023-03-24 . grizedale.org.
  17. Web site: ireallylovemusic › the topography of chance – curated by stewart lee . 2023-03-24 . en-US.
  18. Web site: The Topography of Chance . 2023-03-24 . sonicartsnetwork.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20230324142404/http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/files/virtuemart_Itemid_78_6kx3kemr6uzo6fvqoho5aa.html . 2023-03-24.
  19. Web site: The Label of Love is Fruits de Mer Records, Gideon Coe - BBC Radio 6 Music. BBC. 19 January 2018.

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