Johnny Charmer -- vocals, guitars, keyboards, mandolin:
Stephen Parkinson -- guitars, pedal steel, ukulele, backing vocals:
George Bettencourt -- bass, guitars:
Etkilendikleri
Smiths/Morrissey/Marr, Kent, Suede, Gene, James, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Nick Drake, Elvis (70s especially), Manics, George Harrison, Gordon Lightfoot, the Dears, Elliott Smith, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, the Pogues, Ian Tamblyn, the Lucksmiths, Gram Parsons, A.E. Housman, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse
Red Orkestra is the main musical project of Waterloo, Ontario singer-songwriter Johnny Charmer. The band itself has been an ever-changing cast of supporting characters, all of whom are distinguished musicians who have been members of—or have made contributions to—numerous bands (e.g. Galore, Ohbijou, Danny Michel, The Candidates, Neil Leyton, The Pariahs, the Ghosts, The Machines , Boy, Night Crash Noir…).
After having played in Toronto-based bands Red Autumn Fall, Charmer, and Neil Leyton, Johnny formed his own band at the end of 2003 and quickly released the debut album—‘After the Wars’—by the spring of 2004, to critical acclaim.
2006 witnessed the release of the second full-length Red Orkestra album, ‘Life with the Machines’. The album was promoted in Canada and later overseas during two extensive European tours in 2007. The ‘Enola’ EP was also released worldwide at the end of 2007.
The band’s most recent work, ‘All’s Well in Heaven and Hell’ will be released in the autumn of 2009, while the recording of the next Red Orkestra record will begin at the start of 2010.
Thanks for the add, Jhonny you perform the song: One by one on the concert with Neil Leyton in Oelde, Germany. It was really so great, yours Frau Dr. Norbert Sterkenkötter
