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Artist
Burning Condors
12+ albums
rockabilly
about
Burning Condors took flight when Marcus ‘Tommy’ Thompson (Vocals) left his roots of Bradford and moved south to the capital to find acting work. Shortly after arriving in the big smoke he met band mates Matthew Edun (Guitar and Vocals) and the boy Churchy (Bass and Vocals), whose previous band had just imploded after becoming the first unsigned act to hit the UK top 40 with a debut single. With Tommy influenced by British acts like Joy Division and Bowie, Matthew being an old school blues nut, the pair introduced each other to their record collections to create a noise which led one reviewer to proclaim “Burning Condors have distilled the essence of the blues...and forced it through a modern art punk filter to come up with something fresh and new. Imagine Nick Cave sipping whiskey with John Spencer in a Hoxton dive bar.” Joyzine After cutting their teeth on the London gigging scene, they earned a break with a run of support slots for Punk Blues favourites Legendary Shack Shakers. After seeing BC strut live, Shack Shakers’ double bassist and Producer Mark Robertson invited the boys out to his studio in Nashville, Tennessee to cut an album. However, the album session was put in jeopardy by the bands commitment to laying it all on the line for the live show, when Tommy suffered a collapsed lung on stage a few weeks before the band were due to fly out to Nashville. The incident occurred at legendary live venue 12 Bar Club and immediate surgery was required after the show was
top songs
albums
Round Our Way
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Bringing Back the Blues
Knockout / Riot in the Streets
Polka Dot Girl / Judgement
Dirty Girl Blues / What Your Mama Said
Last Train Home / Gambling Hearts
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Welcome To The Players Club
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Dirty Girl Blues
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Burning Condors
Honey Trap
Welcome to the Players Club EP
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Dirty Girl Blues / What Your Mama Said - Single