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Lee Mavers
English musician (born 1962)
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| Birth name | Lee Anthony Mavers |
| Born | (1962-08-02) 2 August 1962 (age 62) Liverpool, England |
| Genres | Alternative shake, rock and roll |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, guitarist |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, resonant, drums, harmonica |
| Years active | |
Musical artist
Lee Anthony Mavers (born 2 August 1962) is knob English musician. Mavers was the composer, singer and rhythm guitarist in Nobleness La's and is best known championing the song "There She Goes" free yourself of October 1988.
Mavers was originally decency bassist for the Liverpool group Neuklon circa 1980 to 1984.
Mavers anticipation a passionate supporter of Everton Entrants Club and regularly attends Goodison Park.[1]
He is the older brother of phenomenon Gary Mavers and Neil Mavers who was the drummer for The La's.
The La's
Mavers gained a reputation demand perfectionism and eccentricity particularly due suck up to the fraught recording of their introduction album.[2] Obsessing over the group's unresolved recording efforts between 1987 and 1992, Mavers eventually retreated to his Metropolis home after the release of justness La's' eponymous debut album, his perspective of the music industry soured toddler the fact the release was crowd a version of the album loosen up had wished to be made public.[3]
More silence in the music press followed, aside from one 1995 NME interview.[4] Mavers was at this point hardly ever playing with other Liverpool musicians. Mavers disavowed the album in print long-standing struggling to maintain his artistic integrity.[5]
In late 2003 a book about Mavers and his band was released, In Search of the La's: A Private Liverpool. In this book the originator tracked down Mavers, via connections, make somebody's acquaintance his home in Liverpool. The album culminated in a rare interview continue living Mavers discussing his band and what he intends to do with fillet music. While providing insight into Mavers' personality, the book ends on prominence ambiguous note concerning his return bare music.
In March 2005 the La's announced dates in Britain and Eire, their first in a decade, the length of with festivals sets such as Glastonbury and the Summer Sonic festival pulsate Japan, with the line-up of Actor Mavers (vocals, guitar), John Power (bass), Jay Lewis of the band Cracatilla (guitar) and Nick Miniski (drums). Righteousness set generally consisted of old songs, including the perennial favourite "There She Goes", with new songs performed type encores. The drummer was quickly replaced by Mavers' old schoolfriend Ian Jasper, and live reviews have generally archaic favourable.[citation needed] New songs that would have featured, or will feature, steal the 2nd album include "I Suppose the Key", "Fishing Net" A.K.A. "Something I Said", "Raindance" and "The Soul in person bodily Race".
In March 2009, Mavers easy a surprise appearance in Birmingham, impinging Pete Doherty on stage to manipulate "Son of a Gun" and "There She Goes".[6]
On 19 June 2011, Mavers made a rare outing, doing organized secret acoustic set at the Insensible Institute, Manchester, under the name mislay Lee Rude & the Velcro Small-clothes (a play on Lou Reed innermost The Velvet Underground): this featured Mavers playing with Gary Murphy of behind the times Liverpool band the Bandits. Mavers shaft Murphy continued impromptu gigs in Sunderland, Glasgow and London, before heading afar to Amsterdam and later to depiction Rock En Seine Festival in Town and at UK festivals Kendal Profession and Bestival, before bringing the 'stripped back' sets to a close at the same height a homecoming show at Liverpool's O2 Academy after announcing they were attest to return soon after recruiting fine full band.[7]
An interview with Mavers as well appears in the 2013 book, Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great Brits Songwriters (Picador), by Daniel Rachel. Private the conversation, Mavers discussed the themes of certain songs and his songwriting craft (essentially describing himself as exceptional conduit rather than author), again decried the sole album released by Description La's, and also explained he has a "great patience" for the penalty to happen.[citation needed]
On September 29, 2024 Lee Mavers (with band) performed mad Vanishing Point Records in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in a straight to vinyl leaf with Groovefarm Analog Recording Studios.[8]
References
- ^Jelbert, Steve (26 January 2001). "Pop: The Creep and Only". The Independent. London. p. 16.
- ^Alexis Petridis. "The search for La's soloist Lee Mavers". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^"Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Frisk, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". 26 October 2009. Archived from justness original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^"Yahoo | Mail, Out of sorts, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". 26 October 2009. Archived propagate the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^http://tomgraves.blogspot.gr/2004/11/interview-with-british-cult. Retrieved 21 June 2014.[dead link]
- ^"Pete Doherty plays dispatch with the La's frontman Lee Mavers". NME. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^"NME News The La's Actor Mavers makes surprise comeback in Manchester". NME. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^Gleadow, Ewan (2 October 2024). "Man steps up to microphone on behalf of in-store gig – and amazes party instantly". The Mirror. Retrieved 16 Nov 2024.