The Wake

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Melancholy Man 07:23 Tools
O Pamela 06:04 Tools
Pale Spectre 04:00 Tools
Send Them Away 03:45 Tools
Sail Through 03:29 Tools
Here Comes Everybody 07:05 Tools
On Our Honeymoon 02:09 Tools
World of Her Own 02:51 Tools
Favour 00:00 Tools
Torn Calendar 04:48 Tools
Plastic Flowers 03:51 Tools
All I Asked You to Do 04:13 Tools
Gruesome Castle 03:19 Tools
Nazarene 00:00 Tools
Of the Matter 02:56 Tools
Patrol 03:32 Tools
Furious Sea 03:55 Tools
Carbrain 00:00 Tools
Crush the Flowers 00:00 Tools
Heartburn 00:00 Tools
Testament 00:00 Tools
Judas 00:00 Tools
An Immaculate Conception 00:00 Tools
English Rain 00:00 Tools
Something Outside 00:00 Tools
The Old Men 00:00 Tools
Give Up 00:00 Tools
Host 00:00 Tools
Of the Matter (version) 02:55 Tools
Locomotive Age 00:00 Tools
Christine 00:00 Tools
Chance 00:00 Tools
Death-A-Holic 00:00 Tools
Darkness Of Mine 00:00 Tools
The Drill 00:00 Tools
Firestone Tyres 00:00 Tools
Watchtower 00:00 Tools
Stockport 00:00 Tools
Murder One 00:00 Tools
Glider 00:00 Tools
American Grotto 00:00 Tools
Suicide Manual 00:00 Tools
Rejected 00:00 Tools
Major John 00:00 Tools
Harlot 00:00 Tools
One More Way 00:00 Tools
Forever Nothing 00:00 Tools
Deep Silent Dead 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past - 12" Mix 00:00 Tools
Uniform 05:34 Tools
Souls Encounter 00:00 Tools
Befouled Galaxy 00:00 Tools
Downward Groove 00:00 Tools
Failed Generation 00:00 Tools
Holy Head 00:00 Tools
The Neverending 00:00 Tools
Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Elbow of Zeuz 00:00 Tools
Good for Nothing 00:00 Tools
Like A Fallen Angel 00:00 Tools
Suicide 00:00 Tools
Control 00:00 Tools
Obnoxious Kevin 00:00 Tools
Joke Shop 00:00 Tools
Henry's Work 00:00 Tools
Mindless Wrecking Progress 00:00 Tools
Nailgun 00:00 Tools
If the Ravens Leave 00:00 Tools
Whenever I Suffer 00:00 Tools
Masked 00:00 Tools
Shallow End 00:00 Tools
Cheer Up Ferdinand 00:00 Tools
A Light Far Out 00:00 Tools
The Back of Beyond 00:00 Tools
Methodist 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past 12" 00:00 Tools
Provincial Disco 00:00 Tools
Lousy Pop Group 00:00 Tools
Crasher 00:00 Tools
Starry Day 00:00 Tools
Selfish 00:00 Tools
Back of Beyond 00:00 Tools
Sheet Metal Eyes 00:00 Tools
I Told You So 00:00 Tools
Faintness 00:00 Tools
Silent Siren 05:10 Tools
Britain 00:00 Tools
The Sands 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard - 12" Mix 00:00 Tools
Down on Your Knees 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Solo Project 00:00 Tools
Christine (Rosetta Stone mix) 00:00 Tools
Audrey 00:00 Tools
Of The Matter - Version 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12" 00:00 Tools
Big Noise, Big Deal 00:00 Tools
Brit Mix 00:00 Tools
Lightning 00:00 Tools
Side Show 00:00 Tools
Deep Seventeen 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past - 7-Inch Version 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Submerge 00:00 Tools
First 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 00:00 Tools
Procession 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past - 7" Edit 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
The Drill - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
16 Days 00:00 Tools
Rise and Shine 00:00 Tools
Reverend Mother 00:00 Tools
Clouds Disco 00:00 Tools
Christine [Rosetta Stone Mix] 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand 00:00 Tools
Pale Spectre - 7" Edit 00:00 Tools
Uniform - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
Curtain 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12") 00:00 Tools
Satellite (New Moon) 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
Rise and Shine - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
Sheila 00:00 Tools
The Calendar 00:00 Tools
Burial (Partially Exhumed Mix) 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12") 00:00 Tools
Recovery 00:00 Tools
The Drill (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Crush The Flowers (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard [12''] 00:00 Tools
The Calendar - Radio Session 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Christine (Rosetta Stone Remix) 00:00 Tools
Uniform (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works so Hard - 7-Inch Version 00:00 Tools
Country of the Blind 00:00 Tools
Torn Calendar - Dub Version 00:00 Tools
Favour [1982] 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (12'') 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past - Radio Session 2.84 00:00 Tools
Christine (2.3 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past 12' 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (7" Edit) 00:00 Tools
Pale Spectre (7" Edit) 00:00 Tools
wake01 00:00 Tools
Drill 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12' 00:00 Tools
Emily Closer 00:00 Tools
Blind (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Watchtower (2.1 wHATEver mix by Rosetta Stone) 00:00 Tools
Rise and Shine - Radio Session 1984 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past [12"] 00:00 Tools
Watchtower (2.1 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand - Radio Session 1984 00:00 Tools
wake02 00:00 Tools
proem 00:00 Tools
wake03 00:00 Tools
Masked (2.5 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
Christine (Re-mix 2.3 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
The Calendar - Radio Session 2.1984 00:00 Tools
The Sun is a Star 00:00 Tools
wake04 00:00 Tools
Heartburn - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Siren 00:00 Tools
wake05 00:00 Tools
wake06 00:00 Tools
Closure 00:00 Tools
wake07 00:00 Tools
wake12 00:00 Tools
wake09 00:00 Tools
Christine (Remix 2.4 Whatever) 00:00 Tools
Be Quick Or Be Dead (japan bonus) 00:00 Tools
wake08 00:00 Tools
The bleakest side 00:00 Tools
wake14 00:00 Tools
Something Outside (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Isolated Illusion 00:00 Tools
Masked (2.6 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
wake11 00:00 Tools
wake16 00:00 Tools
wake10 00:00 Tools
Host - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Christine (2.4 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
Watchtower (2.2 wHATEver) 00:00 Tools
wake13 00:00 Tools
Recovery - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
The Wake - 01 - Crush The Flowers 00:00 Tools
Lost Painting 00:00 Tools
wake15 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Jesus From The Block 00:00 Tools
Electric Tuesday 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (Radio Session 2.1984) 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12-inch) 00:00 Tools
Uniform - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (7-Inch Version) 00:00 Tools
Rise and Shine (Radio Session 1984) 00:00 Tools
The Old Men - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Silent Sirent 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand (Radio Session 1984) 00:00 Tools
Cadavers 00:00 Tools
Torn Calendar (Dub Version) 00:00 Tools
town of 85 lights (edit) 00:00 Tools
Rise And Shine (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
The Painter Of Voices 00:00 Tools
Something Outside - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Rusted 00:00 Tools
Lion's Heart 00:00 Tools
09 - Talk About The Past [12"] 00:00 Tools
Country of the Blind - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
The Wake - 02 - Carbrain 00:00 Tools
The Calendar (Radio Session) 00:00 Tools
Deja-Vu 00:00 Tools
The Drill - Live Ayr 15.4.1983 00:00 Tools
Here in Eternity 00:00 Tools
Town Of 85 Lights - Edit 00:00 Tools
Crush The Flowers [Demo] 00:00 Tools
"Melancholy Man" 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12-inch) 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12" version) 00:00 Tools
Outro 00:00 Tools
15 - Everybody Works so Hard [12''] 00:00 Tools
earth's necropolis 00:00 Tools
The Zenith distance 00:00 Tools
Town of 85 Lights - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
The Calendar (Radio Session 2.1984) 00:00 Tools
Carbrain (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works so Hard (7-Inch Version) 00:00 Tools
Live Today Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Proem (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Hated Forsaken (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12 Mix) 00:00 Tools
English Rain (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody [Radio Session] 00:00 Tools
Ship Of Hope 00:00 Tools
The Drill [Radio Session] 00:00 Tools
The Plastic Flowers (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Are They Chaste? (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Isolated Illusion (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Bob's Empty Head (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Uniform [Radio Session] 00:00 Tools
trial against humanity 00:00 Tools
Heartburn (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Christine [onAir: SCHWARZE WELLE] 00:00 Tools
Up 00:00 Tools
Recovery (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past 12 inch 00:00 Tools
09 - talk about the past 12' 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12 Mix) 00:00 Tools
12 - pale sceptre 00:00 Tools
Clouds Disco (bonus track) 00:00 Tools
Cadavers (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Forever Fair 00:00 Tools
Lost Painting (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Host (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Muses of a frail destiny 00:00 Tools
O Pamlea 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12'') 00:00 Tools
Crush The Flowers (Audio) 00:00 Tools
up Machine VLOG 00:00 Tools
Unlisted Bonus Track (Bells) 00:00 Tools
Ship Of Hope [featuring Joshua Kabe Ashworth] 00:00 Tools
The Painter Of Voices (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Christine [Remix 2.4 Whatever] 00:00 Tools
Pale Spectre(Audio) 00:00 Tools
The Old Men (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Ship Of Hope (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Uniform (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (7" Version) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12 inc 00:00 Tools
Blind 00:00 Tools
Closure (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Watchtower (2.1 Whatever Mix) 00:00 Tools
Earth's Necropolis (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Lyrical Soda Paper 00:00 Tools
Fatal devourer of the mortal farewell 00:00 Tools
Trial Against Humanity (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Earth's Necropolis [featuring Michael Pilat] 00:00 Tools
15 - everybody works so hard 12' 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody (John Peel session, 1983) 00:00 Tools
The Crystal Mile 00:00 Tools
The Thunder Man 00:00 Tools
Country of the Blind (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Neighborhood Specialist 00:00 Tools
Watchtower 2.1 (Whatever mix) 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody + Singles 00:00 Tools
On Our Honeymoon (1982) 00:00 Tools
Honeymoon 00:00 Tools
Town of 85 Lights (demo version) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (7" Version) 00:00 Tools
Burial 00:00 Tools
12 Brit Mix 00:00 Tools
เส้นทาง 00:00 Tools
Nearer 00:00 Tools
Christine (remix 2. 4 whatever) 00:00 Tools
Storm Is Coming 00:00 Tools
Town Of 85 Lights 00:00 Tools
The Wake - christine 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12" Version) 00:00 Tools
Forever's Fair 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (BBC Session) 00:00 Tools
Trial Against Humanity [featuring Costin-Alexandru Chioreanu] 00:00 Tools
The Drill (Live Ayr 15.4.1983) 00:00 Tools
Rise and Shine (BBC Session) 00:00 Tools
Christine [Remix 2.3 Whatever] 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12'' 00:00 Tools
The Melancholy Man 00:00 Tools
Satelite 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Major John (Live in Athens) 00:00 Tools
Make You Understand (BBC Session) 00:00 Tools
The Calendar (BBC Session) 00:00 Tools
She 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past [12" Version] 00:00 Tools
Watchtower [2.1 Whatever Mix] 00:00 Tools
A1 - Gruesome Castle 00:00 Tools
Wake, The - Patrol 00:00 Tools
Plastic Flowers (Audio) 00:00 Tools
The Watchtower 00:00 Tools
Angeline 00:00 Tools
Host (Live) 00:00 Tools
Flaming Crown 00:00 Tools
Carbrain (Live in Athens) 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past 12 00:00 Tools
Favour (1982) 00:00 Tools
18-the_wake-amok 00:00 Tools
Be Quick Or Be Dead 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past 12'' 00:00 Tools
A - Talk About The Past 00:00 Tools
A - Crush The Flowers 00:00 Tools
cycle 00:00 Tools
Christine - Rosetta Stone Mix 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12' Mix) 00:00 Tools
five hours 00:00 Tools
Circling the Drain 00:00 Tools
B2 - Plastic Flowers 00:00 Tools
Nazerene 00:00 Tools
Our Day is Gonna Come Soon 00:00 Tools
Sixteen Days 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody (John Peel session, 6 July 1983) 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody (peel session) 00:00 Tools
A2 - Pale Spectre 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard [12" Version] 00:00 Tools
I Can't See 00:00 Tools
Picadilly Lily 00:00 Tools
Elbow of Zeus 00:00 Tools
Uniform (peel session) 00:00 Tools
Road to Moscow 00:00 Tools
The Drill (peel session) 00:00 Tools
06 - Befouled Galaxy 00:00 Tools
Carbrain (Audio) 00:00 Tools
The games he plays 00:00 Tools
No More Green Space (demo) 00:00 Tools
Communion (demo) 00:00 Tools
The Few 00:00 Tools
satellite 00:00 Tools
A - Of The Matter 00:00 Tools
Move With The Times 00:00 Tools
+Major John 00:00 Tools
B - Everybody Works So Hard 00:00 Tools
Harmony 00:00 Tools
the wake - Crush The Flowers 00:00 Tools
Bullshit detector 00:00 Tools
B - Carbrain 00:00 Tools
Give Up (Scan 45 label) 00:00 Tools
Suicide - 1990 Single B-Side 00:00 Tools
A - Something Outside 00:00 Tools
A Little Bird Told Me 00:00 Tools
I'm a King 00:00 Tools
The Drill (live) 00:00 Tools
10 Days 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard (12'' Mix) 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12 inch 00:00 Tools
02 - Darkness Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past - BBC Session 00:00 Tools
Over And Over (Repetidamente) 00:00 Tools
B1 - Furious Sea 00:00 Tools
Christine - Rosetta Stone Rem 00:00 Tools
Through The Glass 00:00 Tools
Reverend Mother - Demo 00:00 Tools
Harlot - 1990 Single A-Side 00:00 Tools
Of The Matter [12" Version] 00:00 Tools
Give Up (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
Uniform (live) 00:00 Tools
Calender 00:00 Tools
Every Step of Your Way 00:00 Tools
Days of Emptyness 00:00 Tools
Kentucky Queen 00:00 Tools
Send Them Away (Live) 00:00 Tools
04 - Deep Silent Dead 00:00 Tools
Ode To My Misery - 01 - Murder One 00:00 Tools
Nazarene - Demo 00:00 Tools
Chance (demo) 00:00 Tools
On Our Honeymoon (Scan 45 label) 00:00 Tools
Move With the Times (demo) 00:00 Tools
Patrol (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
Crush The Flowers (demo version) 00:00 Tools
Satellite(New Moon) 00:00 Tools
Give Up (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
American Grotto (Make It Loud 1990) 00:00 Tools
Careering (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Sheila - Demo 00:00 Tools
An Immaculate Conception (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
Here in Eternity [*] 00:00 Tools
Move With the Times (Reprise) (demo) 00:00 Tools
No More Green Space (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Deja-Vu (Japanese Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
I Need You 00:00 Tools
Here In Eternity (Japanese Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Goodbye I Must Fly 00:00 Tools
Sail Through (1985) 00:00 Tools
Broken Man 00:00 Tools
The Wake - Patrol 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12 Inch Version) 00:00 Tools
02 - Rejected 00:00 Tools
Plastic Flower 00:00 Tools
Ode To My Misery - 04 - Deep Silent Dead 00:00 Tools
All Will Fall 00:00 Tools
Company (live 1983) 00:00 Tools
Communion (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Judas (demo) 00:00 Tools
Cold Home (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
Move With the Times (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
pamela 00:00 Tools
04-Torn Calendar 00:00 Tools
Cold Home (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Favour (live 1982) 00:00 Tools
Move With the Times (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Sideshow - 1992 Single A-Side 00:00 Tools
B - Host 00:00 Tools
Something Outside (Live) 00:00 Tools
Give Up (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Days 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (Radio Session 2.84) 00:00 Tools
Christine (Re-Mix 2.3 wHATEever) 00:00 Tools
The Wake 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody (bonus) 00:00 Tools
01 Judas 00:00 Tools
Gruesome Castle(Audio) 00:00 Tools
It's Gone 00:00 Tools
Christine [Rosetta Stone Remix] 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past [12'] 00:00 Tools
01 - Suicide Manual 00:00 Tools
Rise & Shine 00:00 Tools
Ode To My Misery - 07 - Failed Generation 00:00 Tools
The Old Man 00:00 Tools
The Drill (John Peel session, 6 July 1983) 00:00 Tools
Talk about the past (12'' version) 00:00 Tools
Masked - Demo 00:00 Tools
Burial - Partially Exhumed Mix - Rare 1989 00:00 Tools
On Our Honeymoon (Scan 45, 1982) 00:00 Tools
Ode To My Misery - 02 - Darkness Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Love strings 00:00 Tools
Here In Eternity (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Parol (live 1981) 00:00 Tools
Carbrain (Live) 00:00 Tools
Watchtower - Demo 00:00 Tools
Talk About The Past (12'' Mix) 00:00 Tools
Heartburn (Live) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard 12 00:00 Tools
B - Of The Matter 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works So Hard [12"] 00:00 Tools
Talk About the Past (12'') (1984) 00:00 Tools
Country of the Blind (Live) 00:00 Tools
Host (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Masked [Remix 2.5 Whatever] 00:00 Tools
It All Falls Down 00:00 Tools
the_wake_-_crush_the_flowers 00:00 Tools
Uniform (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Big Noise Big Deal 00:00 Tools
The Wake - control 00:00 Tools
watchtower (2.1 wHATEver mix b 00:00 Tools
Holly 00:00 Tools
Uniform [Peel Session] 00:00 Tools
The Wake/Give Up 00:00 Tools
Living In The City 00:00 Tools
Here Comes Everybody [Peel Session] 00:00 Tools
13- furious sea 00:00 Tools
Something Outside [FBN 24] 00:00 Tools
05 - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
07 - Good For Nothing 00:00 Tools
04 - Downward Groove 00:00 Tools
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There have been at least 3 bands called The Wake, including a Scottish post-punk band, an American goth band and a Finnish death metal band. 1. The Wake were a Scottish post punk and later indie pop band, founded in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard “Caesar” McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen and Joe Donnelly, who was later replaced by Bobby Gillespie. Steven’s sister Carolyn Allen soon joined, and remained in the band until its end. The Wake released their first single on their own Scan 45 label, coupling together On Our Honeymoon and Give Up. This single eventually caught the attention of New Order manager Rob Gretton, who helped the band sign to Factory Records in 1982 and record an LP (Harmony) at Strawberry Studio in Stockport. This was followed by a number of singles on Factory and its French sister label Factory Benelux. In 1983, The Wake toured with New Order, and thus received critical attention but were often unfavourably compared to their more celebrated labelmates. Gillespie was asked to leave in 1983, subsequently playing drums with The Jesus and Mary Chain and achieving fame with his own band Primal Scream. Alexander ‘Mac’ Macpherson replaced Gillespie in 1983. That same year the band recorded a session on John Peel’s BBC program. The band toured extensively and scored an indie hit with their 1984 single “Talk About the Past” which featured Vini Reilly of Durutti Column on piano. The recording and release of their seminal 1985 album Here Comes Everybody marked the apex of their career. Further releases were few and far between: one more single “Of the Matter” emerged in 1985 before their last release for Factory, a 4-track EP entitled “Something That No One Else Could Bring” finally appeared in 1987. In 1988, disillusioned with the lack of proper promotion and indeed apathy from Factory Records, The Wake left the label and signed to Bristol’s legendary Sarah Records, releasing two singles and two LPs, the last being 1994’s Tidal Wave of Hype By this point, once again down to a three piece featuring Caesar, Carolyn and Steven, they also shared personnel with another Glasgow-based band on Sarah, The Orchids, with whom they had also played a few live gigs. When Sarah shut down in 1995, The Wake effectively dissolved. 2. The Wake (U.S.) ---- NOTE: The following Description is quoted in its entirety from The Wake's Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/thewake#!/thewake?v=info "Formed in 1986 by vocalist Troy Payne and guitarist Richard Witherspoon in unlikely Columbus, Ohio USA – The Wake made its’ first studio recording “Procession” using session musicians on drums and bass in 1987. Bassist James Tramel and electronic drummer Scott Rozanski were recruited later the same year. This lineup quickly recorded first versions of tracks like: “Burial”, “Shelia”, and “Locomotive Age”, creating a rough template for what would become The Wake’s signature sound. Acoustic drummer Daniel C. replaced Rozanski early in 1989. Driven forward by Daniel’s acoustic drum sound, the band moved substantially towards the rock and roll end of the sonic spectrum. Hoping to add yet another dimension to their sound, keyboardist Robert Brothers was added to the mix in 1990. In a move to gain exposure, the band started Blaylox Records. Named after the band’s mascot cat, the label proved to be the perfect outlet for the band’s creativity, and a vehicle for spreading the band’s sound far and wide. Bolstered by the sales of the their demo cassette - The Wake burst on to the NYC goth club scene with their 7” vinyl single “Harlot” in 1990. Following on the success of “Harlot”, the band released a second 7” - “Sideshow” on the Blaylox Records label in 1992. The combination of the popularity of these two singles, and the moxie of an influential NYC DJ, led to the band signing with Cleopatra Records in 1993. Considered by many fans of Gothic rock as a “landmark record”, The Wake’s debut album “Masked” was released in October 1993. After the completion of the “Masked” tour, the band parted ways with bass player James Tramel. New bassist Steven Creighton was brought into the fold before the release of the “Christine EP” in 1995. The EP had a decidedly industrial/dance flavor, thanks in part to the re-mixes supplied by Rosetta Stone. The single “Christine” (mixed by The Wake and Zane Eric Brown) broke onto the top ten of Alternative Press’s Dance Club charts where it remained for months. Also in ‘95, the still popular “Christine” video was filmed in and around Mexico City during the tour supporting the EP. In 1996, The Wake joined forces with former Ministry engineer “Fluffy” on their third CD – “Nine Ways”. Recorded and mixed at both Chicago Trax, and the Chicago Recording Company, “Nine Ways” was the last record the band would release on Cleopatra. Just before the release of “Nine Ways”, guitarist and co-founder Rich Witherspoon left the band and former MCA recording artist Mark Gamiere was enlisted to take over at guitar. Though no studio recordings were made with this lineup, Gamiere provided live tour support from 1996 to 2000. Other lineup changes include the late J.T. Murphy replacing Steven Creighton on bass in 1998. The band turned bass playing duty over to a hard-disk recorder in 1999 before giving way to an extended hiatus in 2000. Fast forward to 2008: The Wake surprise fans with “BLACKlist” - a “best of” compilation DVD with bonus un-released material, rare tracks and video. The band also confirms rumors that the full 1993 lineup has reunited and is working on new material. To date, The Wake has been featured on thirty plus compilations world-wide. In addition, the band has amassed an impressive and diverse list of opening dates with bands such as NIN, Skinny Puppy, Christian Death, Innocence Mission, Alien Sex Fiend, And Also the Trees, and Shadow Project - touring extensively in the US and playing dates in Europe and Mexico. Turning the page and starting a new chapter in their storied career – 2010 promises fans of The Wake the debut of a highly anticipated new single. Due out in the spring, “Emily Closer” was mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk." --- quoted entirely from: The Wake, http://www.facebook.com/thewake#!/thewake?v=info 3. A Finnish metal band who formed in 1998 in Karjaa. Their style is the melodic death metal style normally associated with Swedish metal bands. Their 2 albums have been released on Spinefarm Records. 4. There was a UK band of the same name in existence prior to any of the above. The Wake issued a single entitled “Linda” back in 1971 which got a reasonable amount of radio airplay at the time, although it never entered the singles chart. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.