About
Echo and the Bunnymen are a British post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of The Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as “Echo”. By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983’s Porcupine and ‘84’s Ocean Rain. Singles like “The Killing Moon” (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band’s early records.), “Silver,” “Bring On The Dancing Horses,” and “The Cutter” helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there. McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997 and released Evergreen (1997), What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001) , Siberia (2005), and the latest addition, The Fountain (2009). The group’s old audience liked the return to their classic sound, and they also managed to gain a number of new, younger listeners. Echo and the Bunnymen were managed early on by Bill Drummond, who went on to be a founder member of The KLF. (On the cover of their third album 'Porcupine' the band's name was written 'Echo & the Bunnymen' with the word 'and' replaced by an ampersand symbol. Both this abbreviated form and the original full written form have been used on subsequent albums and singles.This double usage has been the source of many discrepancies in meta-data in streamed and downloaded versions of the band's recordings) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
1978, GB
Echo And The Bunnymen
Echo and the Bunnymen are a British post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of The Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as “Echo”. By the time of their debut album, 1980’s Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here Read more on Last.fm
1978
Videography
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (Official Music Video)
Releases
Best Of The BBC Sessions 1979 - 1997
2025 · 0 tracks
With Our Best Suits On: Live in Gothenburg Sweden April 24th 1985 FM Broadcast
2024 · 0 tracks
Spare Us The Cutter
2024 · 0 tracks
Peel Session 1997
2023 · 0 tracks
Evergreen (25 Year Anniversary Edition)
2022 · 0 tracks
Nothing Lasts Forever (CD2)
2022 · 0 tracks
Nothing Lasts Forever (CD1)
2022 · 0 tracks
The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
2019 · 21 tracks
The Killing Moon (Symphonic Version)
2018 · 1 tracks
The Stars, The Oceans & the Moon
2018 · 15 tracks
The Stars, The Oceans & the Moon
2018 · 0 tracks
Bring on the Dancing Horses (Transformed)
2018 · 4 tracks
The Killing Moon (Transformed)
2018 · 3 tracks
The Somnambulist
2018 · 1 tracks
Seven Seas (Transformed)
2018 · 1 tracks
The Stars , The Oceans & The Moon
2018 · 15 tracks
Greatest Hits Live in Concert
2017 · 9 tracks
The Killing Moon: The Singles 1980–1990
2017 · 13 tracks
The Killing Moon - The Singles 1980-1990
2017 · 13 tracks
It's All Live Now
2017 · 10 tracks