greetings, we are the bluetones and welcome to our space or even our 'my space' which is of course your space, so welcome to 'your our my space'.
weve been the bluetones for over 10 years, it all started one afternoon when the other band members and i got together and formed a band called 'the bluetones'. we called our band 'the bluetones' because we all like the colour blue and the word 'tones', particularly when said in that specific order. we had also noted that other bands with colours in thier names were often quite good, mick hucknall for instance had amassed a personal fortune of over £25 million with his 'red' motif and although 'squeeze' isn't actually a colour, orange is, and you can squeeze an orange, plus they did have a few good songs.
we are all londoners (mark, scott and adam) but not quite cockneys except our drummer eds (real name: ed) who's a northerner but not quite a geordie and some say not quite a drummer.
armed with a headfull of dreams (get money and girls) and a clutch of lethal pop songs, we set about changing the world .......... forever.
....and the world listened, buying our records by the billion and probably wishing they were us. what we lacked in dress sense we more than made up for with our clothes and we quickly became style-icons as well as international rock-gods of epoch shattering dimentions.
10 years, 5 albums, 13 divorces, 127 keyboard players, 8 spells in rehab (average per head), 31 grammys and 9 houses each later our extraordinary career reached it's giddy climax in the summer of 2005 when we were almost asked to headline 'live 8'.
this is the story of the bluetones so far.
to be continued .....
Apologies to all fellow bands but we will delete any comments that look like an advert for your band or a band you think we should listen to. We decided if people wanted to know about other bands, they wouldnt be on our page looking for them. We accept all requests for "friends" and youre welcome to send messages or bulletins about other bands.
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I really enjoyed seeing you at Darwen Live at the bank holiday. Wow The Fountainhead brought back some memories. Well done Guys and Thanks from the bottom of my heart x
Ta very much for adding me! Whenwill you be gracing us with your presence in sunny Spain?! (although I'm afraid it's probably sunnier in England at the mo!)
You were great at Darwen Live - it's just a shame we didn't have a bit more sunshine and a little less wind!
I totally accidentally poached a song dedication that was technically rightfully someone else's, too. (They were shouting for Keep The Home Fires Burning, I was shouting for Mudslide. You played Home Fires but dedicated it to me. Whoops! =/) If that person happens to be reading this...I am sorry! Teehee...
Went to see them at the Indigo2 sat night and they were great.
I've seen them about 4 times before, but not for a while.
However, I really don't know why some people go to gigs when they clearly have no interest in the music and insist on spoiling it for everyone else.
The first place I stood last night, these 2 short, blond, overly-madeup girls infront of me spent most of their time with their backs to the stage, chatting with their friends and smoking fags, so I moved to a better position, but then realised that the bloke next to me was paralytically drunk and kept leaning all over me, and there were also 2 yuppie blokes behind and to the right of me who spent the whole time talking to each other very loudly.
After the first thrid of "Putting Out Fires" (my favourite 'Tones song) I had to tell them to shush, which they did but it ruined the rest of the song for me, which was the one I was most looking forward to hearing.
