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Unreferenced|date=September 2010Infobox musical artist |name = The Lilac Time|image =|caption =|background = group_or_band|origin = Herefordshire , England |genre = Alternative rock |years_active = 1986–present|label = Universal Records Bogus Frontage Folk Modern Cooking Vinyl spinART Records Creation Records|Creation Fontana Records|Fontana |website = http://www.thelilactime.com/ Lilac Time Official Site|current_members = Stephen Duffy Nick Duffy Claire Worrall Melvin Duffy|past_members = Michael Weston Michael Giri Fraser Kent The Lilac Time is a British alternative rock band that was originally formed in Herefordshire , England by Stephen Duffy , his brother Nick Duffy and their friend Michael Weston in 1986. The band's name was taken from a line in the Nick Drake song "River Man."
Since their formation, the Lilac Time has gone through various line-up changes with the Duffy brothers as mainstays. The band's activity has intertwined with Stephen Duffy's solo and songwriting career.
History
The Duffy brothers and Michael Weston had recorded music that would become the band's self-titled debut that was first released on Swordfish Records in 1987. Michael Giri and Fraser Kent joined when the band went on tour. The group signed to Fontana Records|Fontana , who reissued their first album in remixed form in 1988. The group went on to release the albums Paradise Circus in 1989, and & Love For All in 1990, the latter of which was produced by Andy Partridge and John Leckie .
The Lilac Time was dropped by Fontana, then was briefly signed to Creation Records , where they were subsequently managed by label head, Alan McGee . Their sole release on Creation was Astronauts, in 1990. The Duffy brothers' cousin, noted-session musician Cara Tivey , had contributed organ and piano to the album.
The band later regrouped with Claire Worrall and Melvin Duffy (no relation to the brothers) and had recorded Looking For A Day In The Night with producer Stephen Street for spinART Records in 1999. They then put out Lilac 6 on Cooking Vinyl in 2001; Keep Going was released in 2003 under "Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time" on Folk Modern.
The Lilac Time's last album, Runout Groove , was released in 2007 on Bogus Frontage. The band played the 2007 Green Man Festival and the Queen Elizabeth Hall as a six-piece. Their gig at the Green Man Festival serves as the backdrop to the film "Memory & Desire — 30 Years in the Wilderness With Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time." The documentary was filmed over six years by Douglas Arrowsmith, who included new and vintage Lilac footage. The film is accompanied by a Universal Records album of the same name, which compiles songs from Duffy's thirty years of music making. Their Queen Elizabeth Hall concert is to be released as a live recording.
The band is now based in Cornwall .
Discography
Memory & Desire - 30 Years In The Wilderness (2009 - titled Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time)
Runout Groove (2007 - titled Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time)
& Love for All (2006) - UK Mercury Reissue with extra tracks & Radio Sessions
Paradise Circus (2006) - UK Mercury Reissue with extra tracks & instrumentals
The Lilac Time (2006) - UK Mercury Reissue of 1988 UK CD with extra tracks & Radio Sessions
Astronauts + (2005) UK Edition of 1998 Japanese 19 track version
Keep Going (2003 - titled "Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time")
lilac6 (2001) - Japanese 2-CD set with 4 live tracks
lilac6 (2001)
Compendium - The Fontana Trinity (2001) - 2 CD set of songs from first three albums
Paradise Circus (1999) - Japanese reissue of 1989 CD
The Lilac Time (1999) - Japanese reissue of 1988 UK CD
Looking for a Day in the Night (1999) - Japanese release with 1 extra track
Looking for a Day in the Night (1999)
Astronauts (1998) - Japanese release, with seven extra tracks
Astronauts (1991) - German Creation release
Astronauts (1991)
& Love for All (1990) - Japanese release with obi strip
& Love for All (1990) (also released in Germany and US)
Paradise Circus (1989) (also released in Germany and US)
The Lilac Time (1988 - Mercury Records US release with different track listing & extras)
The Lilac Time (1988 - Fontana Records reissue)
The Lilac Time (1987 - Swordfish Records limited release)
Compilation tracks, etc
The Adventure Club Sessions (1992 US CD including two live Lilac Time tracks)
'' I'm Your Fan : The Songs of Leonard Cohen'' (1991 tribute CD w/The Lilac Time's cover of "Bird on a Wire")
Wish List (2002 MS Society CD including Lilac Time's "Suburban Symphony")
One Day One Of These Fans Will Change Your Life (a 2006 Lilac Time tribute CD)
Advertising Space (2005 Robbie Williams single including cover of the Lilac Time's "Family Coach")
Singles
Year
Title
Chart positions
Album
Hot 100
Modern Rock
Mainstream Rock
UK
1987
"Return to Yesterday / Trumpets from Montparnasse"
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