Cornershop

• Herkunft: Leicester, UK

Genre

Indie Rock (wobei das auch für Indisch-Rock stehen könnte)

Line-Up

• Tjinder Singh (Gesang, Dholaki)
• Ben Ayres (Gitarre, Keyboard, Tambura)
• Anthony Saffery (Sitar, Keyboard)
• Nick Simms (Schlagzeug)
• Peter Bengry (Percussion)

Kollaborationen

• auf dem Album When I Was Born For The 7th Time: Allen Ginsberg, The Automator, Justin Warfield, Paula Frazer
• auf dem Album Handcream For A Generation: Noel Gallagher spielt Gitarre bei Spectral Mornings
• auf der Single Wop the Groove: Happy Mondays

Diskographie

Alben

• 1994: Hold On It Hurts
• 1995: Woman's Gotta Have It
• 1997: When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• 2002: Handcream for a Generation

als Clinton

• 1999: Disco and the Halfway to Discontent

Singles/EPs

• 1993 In The Days Of Ford Cortina EP (WIJ 19)
• 1993 Lock, Stock & Double-Barrel EP (WIJ 22)
• 1993 Readers' Wives EP (WIJ 19)
• 1994 Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal (WIJ 33)
• 1995 6am Jullander Shere (LTD 004)
• 1996 Jullander Shere Mixes (WIJ 48)
• 1996 Wog (The Western Oriental Mixes) (WIJ 49)
• 1996 Butter The Soul (Root 11)
• 1997 Good Ships (WIJ 70)
• 1997 Brimful Of Asha (WIJ 75)
• 1998 Sleep On The Left Side (WIJ 80)
• 2001 Motion the 11 (Root 18)
• 2002 Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky 111 (WIJ 129)
• 2002 Staging (WIJ 130)
• 2004 Topknot (RTRADS168 / auf einer Promo erschien ein Cavemen ft. M.I.A. mix)
• 2006 Wop The Groove (RTRADS 273)
• 2009 The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History in the Making)

Remixes

• Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)

Kompilations-Beiträge

• auf FM4 Soundselections: Juliander Shere (1997), Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix, 1998), Motion The 11 (2002), Topknot (2004)
• 6am Jullandar Shere auf Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years
• "Topknot" auf Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 2004
• 2002 "Brimful Of Asha" auf Introduced 100 CD3 und DVD

Charts

Jahr	Titel	Charts
		D	UK	US	A	CH	SV	F	NOR	FIN	NZ
1997	When I Was Born For The 7th Time	-	17	144	-	-	60	-	-	-	-
2002	Handcream For A Generation	91	30	-	53	-	-	129	-	-	-
	Singles
1998	Brimful Of Asha (Remix)	14	1	-	-	-	36	-	18	20	-
1998	Sleep On The Left Side	-	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Lessons Learnt From Rocky I To Rocky III	-	37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	Topknot	-	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Jahrescharts

Jahr	Titel	Kritiker Charts				Leser Charts
		NME	Spex	Intro	Les Inrocks	Spex	Rolling Stone
1995	Women's Gotta Have It	-	7	-	-	-	-
1997	When I Was Born For The 7th Time	-	25	-	-	9	-
2002	Handcream For A Generation	43	-	-	-	-	-
	Singles
1994	Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal	-	12	-	-	-	-
1995	6am Jullander Shere	-	5	-	-	15	-
1998	Brimful of Asha	-	-	-	-	25	7
1998	Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)	-	-	-	4	-	-
2002	Lessons Learned From Rocky I to III	32	-	-	-	48	-
2002	Motion The II	-	-	46	-	-	-

All-Time-Charts

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

• # 76 in 100 Greatest British Albums Of All Time (NME, 2006)

Trivia

• When I Was Born For The 7th Time war 1997 für den Mercury Music Prize nominiert.

Referenzbands

• Clinton, Talvin Singh, Cornelius, Fatboy Slim
• wurden beeinflusst von: Asha Bosley

Coverversionen

Cornershop covern...

• Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) von den Beatles

Videos

• 2011 United Provinces of India (Regie: Chris Hemming)
• 2009 Free Love (Regie: Chris Hemming)
• 2002 Things I learned from Rocky I to Rocky III (Regie: Douglas Avery)
• 1998 Sleep on the left side (Regie: Phil Harder)
• 1998 Brimful of Asha [version 2: Norman Cook remix] (Regie: Ed Steinberg)
• 1997 Brimful of Asha [version 1] Regie: Philip Harder)
• 1996 Wog (Regie: Nick Abrahams & Michael Tomkins)
• 1995 6am Jullandar Shere
• 1994 Born disco, died heavy metal
• 1993 Readers' wives
• 1993 England's dreaming
• 1993 Waterlogged

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