Biography
There are at least 7 artists with the name Badger:
1. A progressive rock band from London, England
2. A 4-piece pop'n'roll collective from Norway.
3. A side-project of Terminal Curl's Carter Mullin.
4. A side project of Extreme's bassist Pat Badger.
5. An alt-pop duo from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
6. An emo pop/skate punk band from Houston, Texas. Also known as The Tie That Binds later in their career.
7. An underground dance music producer, multi instrumentalist and DJ.
1. A progressive rock band which was was co-founded by keyboardist Tony Kaye with David Foster, after Kaye left Yes. Foster had been in The Warriors with Jon Anderson before Anderson co-founded Yes, and Foster later worked with Yes on the production of Time and a Word. Kaye had worked on a solo project by Foster that was never released.
The pair found drummer Roy Dyke, formerly of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, and Dyke suggested Brian Parrish on guitar. The new band got signed to Atlantic Records.
Badger's first release was the live recording One Live Badger, co-produced by Jon Anderson and Geoffrey Haslam and taken from a show opening for Yes. In the progressive rock genre, five of the songs were co-written by the whole band, with a sixth by Parrish.
By 1974, the band had been reduced to Kaye and Dyke. They recruited bassist Kim Gardner, who had worked with Dyke in Ashton, Gardner & Dyke. Paul Pilnick, formerly of Stealers Wheel, joined on guitar, as did singer Jackie Lomax.
Lomax proceeded to turn them into the type of R&B/soul band he had used on his solo albums. The band became a vehicle for Lomax's songs and singing. During this period, they released one LP, White Lady, on Epic Records, produced by Allen Toussaint. All ten songs were written or co-written by Lomax. Guests on the album included Jeff Beck (contributing a guitar solo to the title track).
However, before the album's release, the band had split into two factions, with Lomax and Gardner leading a short-lived band called White Lady, before Lomax returned to a solo career.
White Lady b/w Don't Pull the Trigger was released as a single in May 1974.
2. A 4-piece pop’n’roll combo based in the city of Tromsø, Norway.
The band has existed with its present line-up since 2005: Håvard Stangnes (vocals, guitar), Isak Måseide (bass, vocals), Børge Figenschau (guitar), and Kim Karlsen (drums).
Discography:
- The Badger EP (Promo, 1998)
- By:Larm 2000 (Promo, 2000)
- Faster Days (EP, 2000)
- Every Other Sunday (LP, 2002)
- One Hit Wonders Of The World Unite (Promo, 2003)
- C'mon Girls (LP, 2003, Sometimes called C'mon Girls!)
- It's A Glorious Day (Promo, 2004)
- I Tell You What You Wanna Hear (Single, 2012)
- Motorcar (Single, 2012)
- Summer Sweeps (Single, 2013)
- Stars, Guitars & Motorcars(LP, 2013)
3) A side-project of Terminal Curl's Carter Mullin.
4) A side project of Extreme's bassist Pat Badger.
The debut album Time Will Tell was released in Summer 2014. It features Kevin Figueiredo on drums (present Extreme drummer), Bleu and Joe Pessia on guitars.
5. An alt-pop duo from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Discography:
- Pay Per View (Single, 2018)
- Seize Warfare (EP, 2018)
- Biscuits For Dinner (Single, 2018)
- DEEPMINDED.//Atom (Single, 2018)
- Atom (Part 2) (EP, 2019)
- NIGHTFOREST (again) (Single, 2020, As ako vs Badger)
- Grumble (Single, 2020)
- Power & Agility (EP, 2020)
6. An emo pop/skate punk band from Houston, Texas formed in 1993. Under the name "Badger", the band had released two EPs: "Badger / Blueprint" (1993) with the emo band Blueprint, and "Unhappy Life" (1995). The band would go on to change their name to "The Tie That Binds" after Unhappy Life.
7. An underground dance music producer, multi instrumentalist and DJ who went viral on social media for his remixes of These Words by Natasha Bedingfield and Foundations by Kate Nash.
Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
