(Sean Lyons ) METRO - Metro (1976) / RAISE THE DRAGON - Deliverance (1984) / INTIMATE STRANGERS - Charm (1986)

Country:
Scottland

Genre:
Electronic, Rock
Style:
New Wave, Synth-pop


















RAISE THE DRAGON - Deliverance (1984)

Tracklist :

01 The Blue Hour
02 Deliverence
03 Raise The Dragon
04 Hold On (I’m Coming)
05 White Country
06 Murder One

Link to download (192 kbs):
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=0038065db7534ad5e72fba17ad145965



















INTIMATE STRANGERS - Charm (1986)

Credits:
Gary Barnacle-Saxophone (M/Level 42/The Ruts/Visage etc.) /Andrew Bodnar-Bass Guitar (The Rumours)/Dave Early-Drums (Sade)/Mark Fox-Percussion (Haircut 100)/Peter Hammond (Producer)/Peter Hammond-Engineer/Barb Jungr-Vocals (Billy Bragg)/Jerry Kreeger-Vocals/Alan Lane-Percussion/Sean Lyons-Guitar (Metro/Robyn Hitchcock/Stewart Copeland/George Clinton/Nick Kamen/The Senators)/Leslie Nemes-Bass Guitar (Haircut 100)/Nigel Ross-Scott-Bass Guitar/Richard Spellman-Vocals/Richard Stevens-Percussion (Linton Kwesi Johnson)/Richard Stevens -Programming/Pickford Sykes-Keyboards (Marianne Faithfull)/Jamie Talbot-Saxophone (The The /Matt Bianco/Art Of Noise etc.)/Philip Todd-Saxophone (Bill Sharpe/Daryl Hall) /E.G. White-Bass Guitar (Brother Beyond)/Bosco DeOliveira-Percussion (EVBG/Frank Chickens/Working Week etc.)

Tracklist :

01 Let Go
02 In the Wilderness
03 Flame On
04 Deliverance
05 Child of the Dust
06 Struck by Lightning
07 My Brilliant Career
08 Raise the Dragon
09 Blue Hour
10 What Are You Waiting For?
11 Worlds Apart
12 Raise The Dragon (Extended European Remix)

Links to download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25412728/Intimate_Strangers-charm_1986__192_kbs_.rar.html

"There was once a two-man band named Raise the Dragon, who made one gracefully mannered EP I thought was wonderful. Before they could even make a whole album, though, as best I can deduce, they got hit on the heads by falling frozen turkeys or something, and woke up with some sheet music and each other and no memories. They formed a new band, called Intimate Strangers in honor of their amnesiac alliance, and remade most of the songs from the EP in randomly different styles. Head injury isn't really a self-improvement program, and some of the songs fare incredibly poorly in their second lives ("Raise the Dragon" itself makes me very sad), but "The Blue Hour" is resurrected like the Blue Nile gritting their teeth through migraines in which they think they're Bruce Hornsby, and I sing along with it in honor of everything that never had a chance."

"At his smoothest, Raise the Dragon's Richard Spellman sings like a debonair blend of David Bowie and Bryan Ferry (loud, his voice is quite less appealing); Sean Lyons provides attractive, fragile guitar threads. With backing from five sessionmen, including ex-Rumour bassist Andrew Bodnar, and production by Art of Noise's Anne Dudley, the crafty pair spin both lovely, melodic tunes ("The Blue Hour") and tedious light dance-rockers ("Deliverance" and "Raise the Dragon") on Deliverance. But an ill-advised cover of "Hold On (I'm Coming)" is laughable.
Returning two years later as Intimate Strangers, Spellman and Lyons released Charm, which contains two remixes and one peppy re-recording of their first EP's best songs plus seven new creations in roughly the same plangent dance vein."


About Sean Lyons
Raise The Dragon was a duo from Scotland (Richard Spellman - vocal & Sean Lyons -guitar)released one only Ep,later changed their name to Intimate Strangers to come out with an album in 1986. Their music is a mixture of Bowie, Bryan Ferry and Haircut 100 (Mark Fox and Les Nemes from Haircut 100 played on this album). Sean has played the guitar with such diverse artists as George Clinton, Robyn Hitchcock and Brian Kennedy, toured in '98 with French star Patricia Kaas and even played banjo on "5-6-7-8" by Steps (a career high?). He has collaborated with Stewart Copeland on work included in Rumblefish and Highlander 3 amongst other films, and David Bowie recorded one of his first songs "Criminal World" on the "Let's Dance" album.
Back in 1976 he was a member of art rock band Metro together with Peter Godwin before formed Raise The Dragon

And here is the Metro album ,I took it not only for Sean Lyons, but also Peter Godwin for his collectors and fans :



METRO - Metro (1976)

Genre:
Rock
Style:
Art Rock, Pop Rock

Credits:
Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Percussion, Voicebox - Duncan Browne
Bass - John Giblin
Drums, Percussion - Simon Phillips
Guitar - Sean Lyons
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer - Peter Godwin

Tracklist :

01 Criminal World (5:27)
02 Precious (3:03)
03 Overture To Flame (1:54)
04 Flame (6:32)
05 Mono Messiah (4:02)
06 Black Lace Shoulder (4:27)
07 Paris (3:17)
08 One-Way Night (5:53)
09 Jade (4:43)
10 Criminal World (Single) (3:33)

Link to download (192 kbs) :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25415930/metro-metro_1976__192_kbs_.rar.html

"Peter Godwin used to play in the band called 'Metro' with Duncan Brown. Metro was a British modern pop unit which is very dandy like Roxy Music. Their "Criminal World" was covered by David Bowie. After disbanding he became a solo singer who is considered to be a part of New Romantics. The sound is Ultravox-ish and the songs produced by Midge Ure and Georg Kajanus (Sailer/Data). After he released two albums, he withdrew from the front scene as a singer and performed as a actor in the movies and British films. In '98, he suddenly released the best album including newly recorded tracks. He released the single "Rendezvous", an Ambient Pop which he did a duet with French girl Sasha with angel voice.Raise The Dragon is an Adult-oriented Modern Pop unit formed by Sean Lyons (who composed "Criminal World") of ex-Metro and Spellman. They were on I.R.S, and later changed the name to Intimate Strangers. "
(http://www.america.net/~davdmock/godwin.htm)

More info :
http://www.thegliders.co.uk/biog.html Official page of Sean Lyon's recent band The Gliders