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James Alexander Skelly (born 16 August 1980) is an English musician who is the frontman of The Coral. He embarked on a solo career when the band went on indefinite hiatus in 2012. The band regrouped in 2015. Skelly is the cousin of fellow musician Miles Kane.
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It was, it turns out, Noel Gallagher, the man that inspired Skelly as a 16-year-old to first pick up a guitar, who convinced him to follow his instinct. “We were going to do it as two albums, three months apart, and then I went to see Noel’s studio and I was telling him about it. He said, ‘Why don’t you just put it out as one album? You’re over-thi...
While the 335 is a fixture, Skelly’s prolific buying and selling, sometimes out of necessity, has seen the guitars characterising each of the band’s albums changing as often as the stylistic ground they’ve covered. The Coral’s uninhibited, lysergic sound has taken in Merseybeat, psychedelia, dub, hazy Americana, wonky doo-wop and acid-laced sea sha...
That Rickenbacker might not be present, but the sounds of the 60s are, as you’d expect, all over Coral Island, as is the band’s enduring love of legendary producer Joe Meek, most prominently on lead single Faceless Angel. The warm overdriven vocal and glorious slapback on Skelly’s shuffling guitar part recall Meek’s work on John Leyton’s Johnny Rem...
By the time the band can get out to tour Coral Island, they’ll be closing in on 20 years since their Mercury-nominated debut, a record that swam against the prevailing scruffy garage-rock tide led by The Strokes, The White Stripes and The Libertines, landing at No 5 in the UK chart. Skelly recently revisited the album and remembers, “I thought, ‘wh...
Lead singer James Skelly released an album entitled Love Undercover on 3 June 2013 with The Intenders, a band comprising Coral members Ian Skelly, Paul Duffy and Nick Power, as well as members of The Sundowners and Tramp Attack.
James Skelly (The Coral) talks to John Robb about the band's bewitching and brilliant new album, the art of songwriting, creating moods as music and how the Roses, Bunnymen and other purveyors of...
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“It feels like you’re at the edge of the world, doesn’t it?” says James Skelly, the lead singer of The Coral.
Sep 12, 2023 · Following the release of their new albums 'Sea of Mirrors' and 'Holy Joe's Coral Island Medicine Show', The Coral frontman James Skelly talks to Far Out.
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Dec 1, 2021 · The Coral – Album By Album. James Skelly and Nick Power steer a course through the Wirral band’s turbulent but ultimately triumphant two-decade career. By Graeme Thomson. 1st December 2021. The...
