Liam Genockey
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Liam Genockey is an Irish
drummer
.
Liam Genockey was born in Dublin, Ireland
. During the 1960s he lived in Plymouth, Devon, U.K, playing in local semi-pro groups, then in the early 70's playing with Torbay based rock band Adolphus Rebirth. He was one of the founding members of the early-70s jazz-fusion and afro prog
band ZZebra
, later moving on with fellow band-member John McCoy
to join Gillan
.
He then participated in Amalgam, formed in 1976 by Trevor Watts
. Watts' work covers the spectrum of free jazz
, electronic, jazz-rock, space jazz
and folk-rock. Watts later founded 10-piece Moiré Music Ensemble which included Liam again, plus Peter Knight, an early member of Steeleye Span
.
He joined Steeleye Span
in 1989 and recorded two studio albums Tempted and Tried
and Time
, with them, as well as two live albums Tonight's the Night...Live
and The Collection in Concert. However, between 1997 and 2001 he was not in the band. He returned in 2001 to record Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span
, and has remained with the band since, though he also remains Paul Brady
's drummer for both live and studio performances.
In January 2003, he was involved in the BBC Four
broadcast of Free Will and Testament, a programme featuring performance footage of Robert Wyatt
.
Liam is easily identified by his long, plaited beard. He currently lives in Hastings.
Zzebra (1974–1975)
"Zzebra"- "Panic"-"Take It Or Leave It"-"Lost World"
Trevor Watts String Ensemble
Trevor Watts' Amalgam
Trevor Watts
Mike Heron
Gillan
Gerry Rafferty
Kevin Ayers
Bonnie Tyler
Bashung
Cornelius Cardew
Linda Thompson
Trevor Watts' Moire Music
Lol Coxhill
Buick 6
Maddy Prior
Paul Brady
Steeleye Span
Annie Whitehead
Robert Wyatt
tribute album (various artists)
Science Fiction anthology (various artists)
Moke
Pete Kirtley
and Paul McCartney
Elton Dean
Tom McRae
Mandyleigh Storm
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
.
Liam Genockey was born in Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. During the 1960s he lived in Plymouth, Devon, U.K, playing in local semi-pro groups, then in the early 70's playing with Torbay based rock band Adolphus Rebirth. He was one of the founding members of the early-70s jazz-fusion and afro prog
Afro prog
Afro prog is a term that has been used to describe music of the late 1960s and 1970s that has both a distinct African cultural flavour as well as a progressive rock approach....
band ZZebra
ZZebra
Zzebra were a British fusion and afro prog band active in the UK in the early 1970s.The band was formed when Terry Smith and Dave Quincy , both left the band If, when it broke up, and joined Lasisi "Loughty" Amao ex-Osibisa , Gus Yeadon ex-The Love Affair , Liam Genockey and John McCoy .They...
, later moving on with fellow band-member John McCoy
John McCoy (musician)
John McCoy is a British bass guitarist who is best known for his work with Ian Gillan and Mammoth as well as numerous other bands and sessions since the late 1960s. He currently plays in British rock trio Guy McCoy Torme with former Gillan/Ozzy guitarist Bernie Torme and Bruce Dickinson/Sack Trick...
to join Gillan
Gillan
Gillan was a rock band formed in 1978 by Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan.-History:In 1978 Ian Gillan had become dissatisfied with the jazz fusion style of his band called the Ian Gillan Band and dissolved it, retaining only keyboard player Colin Towns, and formed a new band entitled Gillan...
.
He then participated in Amalgam, formed in 1976 by Trevor Watts
Trevor Watts
Trevor Charles Watts is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist. He is largely self-taught, having taken up the cornet at age 12 then switched to saxophone at 18. While stationed in Germany with the RAF , he encountered the drummer John Stevens and trombonist Paul...
. Watts' work covers the spectrum of free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
, electronic, jazz-rock, space jazz
Space Jazz
-Personnel:Artists*L. Ron Hubbard*Chick Corea*Rick Cruzen*Nicky Hopkins*Stanley Clarke*Tamia Arbuckle*Fernando Gambos*Tomo Allison*Charlie Rush*Gayle MoranProduction personnel*All arrangements and orchestrations by - Rick Cruzen and Tamia Arbuckle...
and folk-rock. Watts later founded 10-piece Moiré Music Ensemble which included Liam again, plus Peter Knight, an early member of Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span are an English folk-rock band, formed in 1969 and remaining active today. Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles "Gaudete" and "All Around My Hat"....
.
He joined Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span are an English folk-rock band, formed in 1969 and remaining active today. Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles "Gaudete" and "All Around My Hat"....
in 1989 and recorded two studio albums Tempted and Tried
Tempted and Tried
Tempted and Tried is the 13th studio album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. The album was recorded after a three-year hiatus after the release of Back in Line. After releasing ten albums in fairly rapid succession during the 1970s, the band entered something of a creative dry spell, with...
and Time
Time (Steeleye Span album)
Time is an album by Steeleye Span. The album was released in 1996, after a seven year hiatus. The impetus for the album was a 25th anniversary reunion tour the year before, during which most of the former members of the band performed together...
, with them, as well as two live albums Tonight's the Night...Live
Tonight's the Night...Live
Tonight's the Night...Live is the second live album by English electric folk band Steeleye Span.During the 1980s, Steeleye went through a creative lull, releasing only 3 albums. However, by 1991, the band had begun to be creatively revitalized, thanks to the arrival of a new bassist, Tim Harries,...
and The Collection in Concert. However, between 1997 and 2001 he was not in the band. He returned in 2001 to record Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span
Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span
Present – The Very Best of Steeleye Span is an album by Steeleye Span, which is frequently mistaken for one of the band's many compilation albums. Although all but one of the songs had been previously released, the album is actually a collection of new studio versions of the songs involved...
, and has remained with the band since, though he also remains Paul Brady
Paul Brady
Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...
's drummer for both live and studio performances.
In January 2003, he was involved in the BBC Four
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable....
broadcast of Free Will and Testament, a programme featuring performance footage of Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
.
Liam is easily identified by his long, plaited beard. He currently lives in Hastings.
Discography
John Martyn- - Sunday's ChildSunday's ChildSunday's Child is a John Martyn album released in 1975. John Martyn's follow-up to 1973's Inside Out is a more song-oriented, less experimental album. His eighth record, including two with his wife Beverley Martyn, shows the many facets of Martyn's playing, from his effects-driven electric guitar...
(1974)
Zzebra (1974–1975)
"Zzebra"- "Panic"-"Take It Or Leave It"-"Lost World"
Trevor Watts String Ensemble
- - Cynosure (1978)
Trevor Watts' Amalgam
- - Another Time (1976)
- - Closer To You (1979)
Trevor Watts
- - Over The Rainbow (1979)
Mike Heron
Mike Heron
Mike Heron is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work in the Incredible String Band in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...
- - Mike Heron (1979)
Gillan
Gillan
Gillan was a rock band formed in 1978 by Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan.-History:In 1978 Ian Gillan had become dissatisfied with the jazz fusion style of his band called the Ian Gillan Band and dissolved it, retaining only keyboard player Colin Towns, and formed a new band entitled Gillan...
- - The Japanese AlbumGillan (album)Gillan is the first album by British rock band Gillan, released in September 1978. It was only released in Japan, Australia and New Zealand, but the album sold well in the UK as an import, aided by positive press reviews...
(1978) - - Mr. UniverseMr. Universe (album)Mr. Universe is the second album by the British rock band Gillan, and the first with the classic line-up with Gillan, Towns, McCoy, Tormé and Underwood.Released in October 1979...
(1979) - - The Gillan Tapes Vol. 1 (1997)
Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty
Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty was a Scottish singer songwriter best known for his solo hits "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line", "Days Gone Down", "Night Owl", "Get It Right Next Time", and with the band Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You". Rafferty was born into a working-class family in...
- - Night OwlNight Owl (album)Night Owl is a 1979 album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released a year after Rafferty's Platinum-selling album City to City. While not quite performing as well as its predecessor, Night Owl still managed enough sales to achieve Gold status in North America and the United Kingdom. The title song...
(1979) - - Snakes and LaddersSnakes and Ladders (Gerry Rafferty album)Snakes and Ladders is the fourth album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released in 1980, following the success of his previous two albums, City to City and Night Owl. The album charted at #15 in the UK but only reached #61 in the US. The album was released on CD in 1998 [EMI 7 46609-2] but deleted soon...
(1980) - - "SleepwalkingSleepwalking (Gerry Rafferty album)Sleepwalking is the fifth studio album by Gerry Rafferty, released in 1982. It is the follow-up to the 1980 album Snakes and Ladders. It would be Rafferty's last album for Liberty/United Artists, and his last for six years....
" (1982)
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
- - That's What You Get BabeThat's What You Get BabeThat's What You Get Babe is the ninth studio album by Kevin Ayers and his final recording for Harvest. Ayers had retired to Deià, Spain directly after 1978's Rainbow Takeaway and That's What You Get Babe was his first public appearance in two years...
(1980)
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...
- - Goodbye to the Island (1981)
Bashung
- - Pizza (1981)
Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected the avant-garde in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music".-Biography:Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire...
- - Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert (1985)
Linda Thompson
Linda Thompson
Linda Diane Thompson is an American actress, lyricist and beauty pageant winner who rose to international fame as Elvis Presley's long time girlfriend after he separated from his wife.-Pageants:...
- - One Clear Moment (1985)
- - "Insult to Injury" and ""I'm A Dreamer" on Dreams Fly Away (1996)
Trevor Watts' Moire Music
- - With One Voice (1988)
Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill
Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill is a free improvising saxophonist and raconteur...
- - "Et Les Motards Mon Cher Watson" (1989) (on the anthology Bandes Originales Du Journal De Spirou)
Buick 6
- - Cypress Grove (1990)
- -"Juice Machine" (1995)
- -"Live At THe Telegraph" (2007)
Maddy Prior
Maddy Prior
Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.-Early life:...
- - Memento: The Best of Maddy Prior (1995)
Paul Brady
Paul Brady
Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...
- - Nobody Knows: The Best of Paul Brady (1999)
- - Oh What a World (2001)
- - The Paul Brady Songbook (2002)
- -"Hooba Dooba" (2010)
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span are an English folk-rock band, formed in 1969 and remaining active today. Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles "Gaudete" and "All Around My Hat"....
- - Tonight's the Night...LiveTonight's the Night...LiveTonight's the Night...Live is the second live album by English electric folk band Steeleye Span.During the 1980s, Steeleye went through a creative lull, releasing only 3 albums. However, by 1991, the band had begun to be creatively revitalized, thanks to the arrival of a new bassist, Tim Harries,...
(1991) - - TimeTime (Steeleye Span album)Time is an album by Steeleye Span. The album was released in 1996, after a seven year hiatus. The impetus for the album was a 25th anniversary reunion tour the year before, during which most of the former members of the band performed together...
(1996) - - Present--The Very Best of Steeleye SpanPresent--The Very Best of Steeleye SpanPresent – The Very Best of Steeleye Span is an album by Steeleye Span, which is frequently mistaken for one of the band's many compilation albums. Although all but one of the songs had been previously released, the album is actually a collection of new studio versions of the songs involved...
(2002) - - They Called Her BabylonThey Called Her BabylonThey Called Her Babylon is an album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span.The album, the band's 18th studio album, was released in 2004. The album is perhaps most noteworthy for the return of Maddy Prior, the band's most central member, who had departed the band in 1996...
(2004) - - WinterWinter (Steeleye Span album)Winter is the 19th studio album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. So far it is the second of three studio albums made by a line-up consisting of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Liam Genockey and Ken Nicol. This is their first Christmas album...
(2004) - - Folk Rock Pioneers Steeleye Span in Concert (2006)
- - Bloody Men (2006)
- - Cogs, Wheels and LoversCogs, Wheels and LoversCogs, Wheels & Lovers is the twenty-first studio album by the electric folk band Steeleye Span. It was released on the 26th October 2009. It is the band's fourth studio album to feature the line-up of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Ken Nicol and Liam Genockey.The songs on the album are...
(2009)
Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead
Annie Whitehead is an English jazz trombone player.-Career:Annie learned trombone at school; at 14 she was already busy playing with brass bands, local dance groups and the Manchester Youth Jazz Orchestra and began her professional career at sixteen. Among her initial influences were Miles Davis,...
- - This is... Rude (1994)
- - Naked (1997)
- - Home' (2000)
- - Gathering (2000)
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
tribute album (various artists)
- - Soupsongs Live (2002)
Science Fiction anthology (various artists)
- - Space 1999 (2004)
Moke
Moke
Moke may refer to:* Moke - archaic British, Australian, and United States slang meaning Donkey* Mini Moke - a utility vehicle produced by the British Motor Corporation * Moke - a British rock band...
- - Superdrag (1999)
Pete Kirtley
Pete Kirtley
Pete Kirtley is an English multi-platinum and Ivor Novello Award winning songwriter, record producer and recently established publisher. He has produced over 150 records worldwide with sales exceeding 10 million, including four number one hits worldwide, eight UK top ten hits and twenty top forty...
and Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
- - Little Children (2000) (charity single)
Elton Dean
Elton Dean
Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....
- - Moorsong (2001)
Tom McRae
Tom McRae
Tom McRae is an English singer-songwriter.-Career:The son of two Church of England vicars, McRae sang in the church choir and as a teen experimented with his mother's guitar...
- - All Maps Welcome (2005)
Mandyleigh Storm
Mandyleigh Storm
Mandyleigh Storm is an English female singer/song writer.-Biography:Storm was born on 27 May 1972 in Southampton, England. After 3 years of ballroom dancing between the ages of 8 and 11, and at the same time a stint at modeling, she settled on singing in her mid teenage years.She sang Barbra...
- - Fire & SnowFire & SnowFire & Snow is the debut album of Australian singer songwriter Mandyleigh Storm. This album was crowdfunded through Sellaband. The album was recorded by Mick Glossop and Ben Roulston and Dean Street Studios, London, mixed by Mick Glossop at Magazine Studios, London, and mastered by Kevin Metcalfe...
(2008)