Brian Canham
Brian Canham - Australian singer ex. Pseudo Echo
Person
Similar artists via Last.fm
Alex Smith
About Brian Canham
Brian Canham is a talented Producer, Mix Engineer and Composer, as well as a successful Performer in his own right. Brian achieved international success in all these roles with Australian pop group Pseudo Echo. The Pseuds achieved Top 10 Hit singles and albums reaching Gold and Platinum status, as well as producing the worldwide smash hit of 'Funky Town', receiving numerous national and international music awards. Pseudo Echo are an Australian New Romantic band. Formed in 1982 by school friends Brian Canham (vocals, guitars, and keyboards) and Pierre Gigliotti (bass and keyboards), the band completed its lineup with Anthony Agiro (drums) and Tony Lugton (guitars and keyboards). Their first album Autumnal Park was an Ultravox-influenced album that yielded the Australian singles "Listening" (produced by Peter Dawkins) , "Stranger in Me", "Dancing Till Midnight", and "Beat for You". Their climb to success in the summer of 1984 was rapid, and they quickly became the second biggest band in Australia after INXS[citation needed] . "His Eyes", a track from their first album, received exposure overseas as it was used in the movie Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. There was a lineup change before their second album with Tony Lugton being replaced by James Leigh (real surname: Dingli) after a dispute between Lugton and Canham over money, and another lineup change during the making of the second album with Agiro being replaced by James's brother Vince. Lugton went on to join synth rock band Talk That Walk. Their second album, Love an Adventure (1986), was also a success with several singles from that album topping the Australian charts including the title track, "Don't Go", "Try", and "Living in a Dream". The album was re-released the following year to include their remake of the Lipps, Inc. song "Funkytown", which brought the group their biggest international success, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA in July, 1987, as well as spending six weeks at #1 in Australia. The overseas release of Love an Adventure featured a somewhat different track listing which included re-mixed versions of 3 singles from Autumnal Park: "Listening", "A Beat for You", and "Destination Unknown". These were remixed to sound more rock-oriented, to better-match the other tracks on the album. Brian Canham even re-recorded the vocals for a slicker sound to compliment these rock remixes. Once again, the overseas version of Love an Adventure was re-released to include the re-make of "Funkytown", replacing "Don't Go" in the original track list. In 1987, the band re-released "Listening" for the movie North Shore starring Nia Peeples. Their third album, Race (1989), went further in the direction of pop rock and metal. The album featured the Australian singles "Fooled Again", "Over Tomorrow", "Eye of the Storm", and "Don't You Forget". The album wasn't very successful, as the band's move to a more rock/metal genre had apparently alienated a good portion of their established fanbase. Pseudo Echo disbanded shortly after touring for Race in 1990. The band reunited in 1999 to produce the EP Funkytown Y2K: RMX, which included 6 new remixes of "Funkytown". A year later, they released the double-CD Teleporter (2000), which featured 4 all-new tracks, 5 re-mixed tracks, and a live performance in Melbourne. The live performance featured all the tracks from Autumnal Park except for "From the Shore", along with a few tracks from Love an Adventure and a performance of the rare B-side "In Their Time". Since reuniting in 1999, the band has been touring constantly in Australia, and were last seen touring with the "Idols of the 80s" in 2005. Pseudo Echo has stated they were originally influenced by Simple Minds, Ultravox, Japan and then later Duran Duran and The Human League. Brian later produced, mixed and co-wrote platinum selling albums/singles for pop group Chocolate Starfish. More recent works include the "radio version" of the Spazzy's 'Boyfriend's Back', as well as Producing, mixing and co- writing the debut album for Cheyne Coates, (Maddison Avenue), plus a HOT remix for Taxi Ride. Brian produced and co-wrote 'Sanctuary' for Origene which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Club Play Charts as well as Top 20 on the Dance Radio Play Chart in the U.S. and Top 10 on many charts throughout Europe. Origene aslo had a local top 20 hit with "Suddenly Silently". Brian’s latest mix / remixes for Anthony Callea’s “Live for Love” reached Top 10 Nationally. Brian has experience in many other fields including jingle writing, sound design, artist development and management. His jingle production company 'Mumbo Jumbo Music' has produced work for all major advertising agencies including clients such as 'Just Jeans, Coca Cola, Heinz, Kraft, Mobil, BP, Peters, Mattel, Fisher Price, LG, Austereo' and many more. It is quite evident that Brian's diversity in musical direction clearly has no boundaries ..... www.myspace.com/briancanham
Taken from Last.fm
161 listeners · 660 plays via Last.fm