Engineers
Engineers performing at Summer Sundae 2005
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Shoegaze Dream pop Post-rock Indie rock
Years active	2003– present
Labels	Echo Records Kscope
Website	http://www.kscopemusic.com/engineers
Members
Simon Phipps Mark Peters Dan MacBean Sweeney

Engineers are a British shoegaze band, composed of Simon Phipps (vocals/guitars), Mark Peters (vocals/guitars/bass), Dan MacBean (guitars/keyboards), and Andrew Sweeney (drums).^[1]

Contents 1 Band members 2 History 3 Artwork 4 Sophomore album 5 Discography 5.1 Albums and EPs 5.2 Singles 5.3 Appearances on compilations 5.4 Television soundtracks 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Band members

• Simon Phipps (born 29 December 1974, Basildon, Essex, England)
• Mark Peters (born 21 July 1975, Liverpool, England)
• Dan MacBean (born September 1973, Salford, Manchester, England)
• Andrew Sweeney (known as just "Sweeney") (born November 1972, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England)

[edit] History

Engineers formed in London in 2003. The band's sound is often described as a mixture of psychedelia, shoegazing and post-rock, though they themselves claim their influences range from The Cocteau Twins to Curtis Mayfield^{[citation needed]}. Sweeney has remarked that "We've always said if more people started taking acid we'd clean up."

They were signed to the Echo record label, and the band recorded and released the Folly EP in September 2004. The EP featured the singles "Come in Out of the Rain" and "Forgiveness" (which the band would re-record for their debut album), as well as a cover of Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter." Their eponymous debut album followed in March 2005, preceded by the top 50 single "Forgiveness" in February. Later in 2005, they recorded a version of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" for the 2005 tribute album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley.

[edit] Artwork

The artwork for releases by Engineers during this period feature paintings by British artist David Thorpe (through the Maureen Paley gallery):

• Folly EP
  • front cover: Do What You Have to Do, 1998^[2]
• Engineers album
  • front cover: Pilgrims, 1999^[3]
  • booklet: Untitled (Skyline), 1999^[4]
• "Forgiveness" single
  • front cover: Out from the Night, the Day Is Beautiful and We are Filled with Joy, 1999^[5]

[edit] Sophomore album

Whilst in the process of mixing their follow-up album, they split with Echo Records and their future became uncertain. On 4 February 2008, bassist Mark Peters posted this message on the band's forum:

“

Here's what's happening - The second album will be released digitally in the first half of the year. When I have a date, I'll post it. As far as splitting up goes, no we haven't, but we aren't working on a fully formed project at the moment. Some of us have been working together in various projects for around fifteen years, and at various intervals we have taken breaks from working together, but always come back together. Sorry for not having anything concrete to tell you, but that's the situation at the moment.

”

The digital release of the album never came to fruition. On 29 August 2008, Mark Peters posted a message with some new information about their second record:

“

Hello. It's been a while, I know. After finishing the album and it not coming out we all went off and did our own things, but have all have kept in touch and are proud of the music we made. Early this year we were approached by the DJ Sasha to remix one of the tracks from our second album ["Sometimes I Realise"] for inclusion on his album Invol2ver. We think he's done a great job with it and as soon as it is ok to post it we'll put it on the music player. Thanks to everyone who has sent messages to us asking about releases - we are still looking into this and if and when we find the right way to put out the second album, we will. For the meantime we'll gradually put up all of the tracks from it along with bits and bats that we'd like you to hear from deep within the cavernous archive...

”

The second album, entitled Three Fact Fader, was released on Kscope on 6 July 2009 in Europe.^[6]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums and EPs

• Folly EP (2004)
• Engineers (2005)
• Three Fact Fader (2009)

[edit] Singles

• "Home" (April 25, 2004) (ECSCD150, CD; comes in a die cut 7" sleeve, limited edition of 500)
  1. "Home"
  2. "New Horizons"

• "Come in Out of the Rain" (September 20, 2004) (ECS154, 7")
  1. "Come in Out of the Rain"
  2. "If I Were a Carpenter"
  • UK singles chart: #89

• "Forgiveness" (February 21, 2005)
• ECSCD159, CD:
  1. "Forgiveness"
  2. "Stake to Glory"
  3. "Cats of Justice"
• ECS159, 7":
  1. "Forgiveness"
  2. "Cats of Justice"
  • UK singles chart: #48 (Indie #7)

• "Home" (re-issue) (June 13, 2005)
• Netherlands CD EP (113.0166.179):
  1. "Home"
  2. "Home" (Jagz Kooner Funhouse Remix)
  3. "Home" (Mogwai Wazzap Remix)
  4. "Home" (U-MYX enhanced section)
  5. "Home" (enhanced video)
  • Released as a digital download only in the UK. Originally planned for 7" (ECS166) and CD (ECSCD166). Was released in the Netherlands on Play It Again Sam.

• "Clean Coloured Wire" (July 20, 2009)
  1. "Clean Coloured Wire" (Radio Edit)
  2. "Clean Coloured Wire" (SeriousMusic 438 kHz Mix)
  3. "Be What You Are" (Chicken Feed Remix)
  4. "Sometimes I Realise" (Steven Wilson Remix)

[edit] Appearances on compilations

• "Song to the Siren" (Tim Buckley cover) on Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley (January 31, 2006)
• "Sometimes I Realise" on Invol2ver by Sasha (September 8, 2008)

[edit] Television soundtracks

• Their song "Home" was used on the soundtrack of Australian soap opera Neighbours during the break-up of Steve and Miranda Parker's marriage.

[edit] External links

• Engineers' official web site
• Engineers' MySpace page
• Last.fm page
• Engineers Interview on God Is In The TV Zine

[edit] References