Unbelievable Truth

Unbelievable Truth is a British group of rock'n'roll, which was active between 1997 and 2000, carried out by Andy Yorke (the brother of Thom Yorke, leader and singer of the group Radiohead).

Composition of the group

  • Andy Yorke : guitar and song
  • Nigel Powell: battery, keyboards, guitar
  • Jason Moulster: low
  • Jim Crosskey: guitar (not-permanent member)

Biography

The group was formed in 1993 with Oxford, and its name comes from the title of a film of Hal Hartley, The Unbelievable Truth ( the Incredible Truth ) (the members are fans of the realizer).

The first individual one of Unbelivable Truth, Building , was published in February 1997 by Shifty Disco, a label based in Oxford. They then recorded their first album, Almost Here , in 1998, and their second, Sorrythankyou , in 2000. First was published on Virgin, but they were not given up by the major and the opus according to is appeared thanks to Shifty Disco.

The group separated in 2000, Andy Yorke having decided to leave the group.

However, they carried out in 2001 an double album, own-produced, entitled Misc. Music , therefore the first disc gathered new B-sides and pieces, while the second disc was the recording in their concert of good-bye, given to Zodiac in Oxford, on September 16th, 2000. Nigel Powell now has a new group, The Sad Song Co., while Andy Yorke took part in solo in a concert of support for Mark Mulcahy, in Zodiac, in Oxford, on October 21st, 2005.

External bonds

  • Official site of Unbelievable Truth (IN)
  • Official site of Andy Yorke (IN)
  • Not-Official Site devoted to Andy Yorke (FR)

Detailed Discograhie

Albums

  • Almost Young stag - May 11th, 1998 - Virgin
1. Solved
2. Angel
3. Stone
4. Same Mistakes
5. Forget Butt Me
6. Settle Down
7. Finest Little Space
8. Building
9. Almost Young stag
10. Higher Than Reason
11. Be Ready
Track No-claims bonus: From This Height (In Japan seulemenent)

  • sorrythankyou - July 10th, 2000 - Shifty Disco music
1. Landslide
2. In Name
3. Disarm
4. Pedestrian
5. Home Again
6. Daylight
7. Saw-tooth Your Skin
8. Advice to has Lover
9. Agony
10. Covers
11. Hypnotist
12. I Can' T Wait
13. Let it Flow

  • Misc Music. - 2001 - Own-produced
    • CD1 (new b-sides/pieces)
Live Without this
Building (version of individual Shifty Disco music)
Roadside #2
Landslide (acoustic version)
In The Beginning
Believe In Anger
Somme Off Thesis People
Nightlight
Over
History/Fiction
Unwanted Gift
Ciao! Does My Shining Star
All This Time
Heaven Feel to Me
Mea Culpa
Everyone Has To Eat
Disaster
Whose Side Are You One?
Roadside no.1 (live)

    • CD2 (Concert of good-bye: Oxford Zodiac, 9/16/2000)

Almost Young stag
Pedestrian
Landslide
Who' S To Know
Stone
Home Again
Daylight
Hypnotist
Higher Than Reason
Forget Butt Me
Covers
From This Height
Building
Agony
Finest Little Space
Solved
I Can' T Wait

Individual

  • Building - February 1997 - Shifty Disco music
1. Building (alternate version)
2. Too Many Things To Learn
(1000 specimens only)

  • Stone E.P. - October 6th, 1997 - Virgin

1. Stone
2. Finest Little Space
3. Roadside No 1
4. Tyre Tracks

  • Higher Than Reason - February 2nd, 1998 - Virgin

1. Higher Than Reason
2. Who' S To Know
3. Coming Round
4. Revolution

  • Solved - 1998 - Virgin

1. Solved
2. Nevermind (Hugo Largo)
3. Yesterday Never Leaves
4. There Yew You Want It

  • Settle Down/Dune Sea - 1998 - Virgin

1.Settle Down
2. Dune Sea
3. Circle

  • Agony - 2000 - Shifty Disco music

1. Agony
2. Roadside no.2
3. Nightlight

  • Landslide - 2000 - Shifty Disco music

1. Landslide
2. Everyone has to eat
3. Heaven feels to me

Other groups formed by members of Unbelievable Truth

  • The Purple Rhinos : a group in particular made up of Jim, Nigel, Jason, and Anita Wilson.

  • Nightshade : A group to which Nigel belonged, before forming in parallel the Illiterate Hands in Oxford. Andy will be invited to sing with a concert of Nightshade.

  • The Illiterate Hands : A group in particular made up of Andy, Nigel, and Jonny Greenwood, guitarist of the group Radiohead.

Quotations

  • "Honestly, the majority of the things which make the world pleasant are made by people who will be never known for what they make, except by those for which they it font." (Nigel)

  • "We like the fact that its films of Hall hartley describe reality, but by deforming it slightly. We hate the humble folks, they are very pretentious. But on another side, I would not like that we are transparent, in the courant" (Inrockuptibles, May 1998)

  • "I do not like to be direct in my songs. I like to think that people are able to interpret the songs with their manner. It is perhaps of cowardice, but I believe that I like to hide a little behind a veil of obscurité" (Andy, Canal+ Belgium, 1/17/1999)


Original quotations

  • "Most off the stuff that honestly makes this world has good place to Be is gives by people who will never Be known for what they C except by those they C it for."

  • "We like the fact that his films describe the reality goal with distorting it slightly. We hastens obscure people, they' Re very pretentious. goal one the other hand, I' D hastens custom to transparent Be, in the mainstream."

  • "I don' T like being to straight forward with songs. I like the idea off people being whitebait to interpret the songs in their own way. Maybe it' S cowardice drank I think I like to hide behind that obscurity has little bit."

See too

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