Roger O’Donnell

Keyboard participant Roger O’Donnell is most beneficial known for his very long tenure using the Remedy, but he’s also used other noted functions and has shifted to a single career. Given birth to in East London in 1955, O’Donnell was the youngest of four kids in a family group captivated by music and artwork. O’Donnell statements he was created alongside the piano in his parents’ family room, and he 1st learned to try out when his eldest sibling trained him some 12-pub blues figures. As an adolescent, O’Donnell was captivated by jazz fusion, funk, and intensifying rock, and required a part-time work to get his 1st electrical piano. O’Donnell got his 1st professional gig shortly after he signed up for art college when he was employed to back again up wildly eccentric rocker Arthur Dark brown for any pub gig. Quickly music was keeping O’Donnell occupied plenty of that he stop school and created a combo with some close friends. In 1983, a pal and previous bandmate Boris Williams suggested O’Donnell for an area within the Thompson Twins’ touring group, and after 2 yrs on the highway together he took an identical position using the Psychedelic Furs. In 1987, Boris Williams was using the Remedy, so when Lol Tolhurst remaining the music group, Williams recommended O’Donnell become auditioned as their fresh keyboard participant. O’Donnell got the work, and became a member of the Remedy with time for an American tour to get Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. O’Donnell made an appearance within the Cure’s following two albums, Disintegration as well as the compilation Entreat, but tensions inside the group triggered O’Donnell to give up in 1990; he rejoined the music group in 1996 with time for the periods for Wild Disposition Swings, and was an associate for another ten years, departing when Robert Smith opted to remove the the Get rid of right down to a trio in 2006. That same season, O’Donnell released a mainly instrumental solo record, THE REALITY in Me, with an EP of remixes, Fifty percent Truths, carrying out a few months afterwards. In 2008 O’Donnell released Music in the Silver Box, an individual project recorded completely in the Moog Voyager, an antique synthesizer that’s always been one of is own favorite musical instruments. In nov 2009, O’Donnell finished the first record from Charlie Crow, a aspect project he referred to as “Jazz/Electro.” O’Donnell also often collaborates with vocalist and instrumentalist Erin Lang and manages the punk music group the Machetes.