The Lilac Time

Following a short solo job under both his have name as well as the moniker Tin Tin, Stephen Duffy come up with the Lilac Time period, which exchanged in his former synth pop excursions for pastoral, folky English pop strongly recalling Skylarking-era XTC. Joined up with by Mickey Harris, Nick Duffy, and Michael Giri, Duffy crafted many eclectic albums utilizing traditional instruments, you start with a self-titled debut in 1988. Released in 1989, Heaven Circus provided a little bit of nation & western impact, which was generally empty on 1990’s & Appreciate for All, partly made by XTC’s Andy Partridge. Issued in 1991, Astronauts begun to go back to the audio of Duffy’s previous solo career, so that it was no real surprise when the music group split up and Duffy resumed are a solo musician. He re-formed the group in 1999 release a Buying Day in the night time, this time around with sibling Nick, Claire Worrall, and Melvin Duffy (no relationship). Lilac6 implemented in 2001, the same calendar year Stephen Duffy released Compendium: The Fontana Trinity, a assortment of select music from the initial three Lilac Period albums along with B-sides in the same period. The melancholic CONTINUE found its way to 2003 beneath the name Stephen Duffy & the Lilac Period. For another couple of years, the music group took a rest while Duffy collaborated and toured with British pop superstar Robbie Williams; then they came back with Runout Groove in 2007. The next calendar year, Duffy and Worrall wedded. In ’09 2009, a documentary, Storage & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy & the Lilac Period, produced the film celebration circuit, and a 36-monitor assortment of the same name comprising single and Lilac Period material was released. After another short hiatus, Worrall as well as the Duffy brothers started working on fresh materials in 2013. With Melvin Duffy adding pedal metal, the ensuing love-themed and accurately entitled No Sad Tracks premiered in the springtime of 2015, adopted quickly with a limited-edition vinyl fabric EP, Prussian Blue, having a remix from the No Sad Tracks tune plus three live recordings of previously tracks.