Darryl Read (Official my space)

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Sam Cha Cha
(from the album Bleeding Paradise by Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read) promo raw internet version cut
Darsteller: Ben Becker, Darryl Read, Svenja
A Darryl Read film/Edited by Karo Goetsch (c)2007 Madstsar Films ltd all rights reserved
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At Sixteen he was a teenage pin up star, featured on front covers of sixties magazine Fab 208. Darryl then began his rock and roll activities drumming for 'Krayon Angels' a group managed by Emperor Rosko. This led to Darryl to then forming in 1969 with Jess Hector (the Gorillas), the first British punk group Crushed Butler, (acclaimed recently in the Record Collector by Mark Paytress but not at the time, check Dig the fuzz release 'Uncrushed' DIG 029B). Later Darryl became lead vocalist/song writer and guitarist, after a lead part as Keith Richards in the premier Edinburgh Festival production of 'Let the Good Stones Roll', combining acting and music. This was followed by a premier Royal Shakespeare Company production, of Bastard Angel, written by Barry Keefe, based loosely on the Kinks.
A gig in a punk club called 'Ex und Pop' in Berlin, led to numerous concerts on the underground club circuit, and an album of his compositions released in Germany, leading to headlining gigs to large audiences. Echo Music in Berlin produced Darryl's first single 'Play With Fire'/'Trouble In The House Of Love' (the latter a Darryl Read composition), both have remained punk/Goth underground classics
Echo/Hansa flew in Paul Thompson of Roxy Music to drum with Darryl on sessions before they returned to London, for recording sessions with German keyboard player Volker Janssen, of Spear of Destiny fame. The 12-inch single, 'No Soul Through Midnight' was released with a hard core promo film (Director Darryl Read - 16mm B/W) entitled 'No Place' (available now on VHS), which were well received in the Hollywood's underground, very ahead of Tarrantino.
By this time resident in Hollywood, Darryl produced the album/CD 'Book of the Dead', co-written with Terence James Stamp ('Third World War'). Hanging out in Hollywood, Darryl met up with 'Beachy', drummer and bandleader of 'The Mighty Hornets', played with them at every happening club on the strip with Slim Jim of 'The Stray Cats' and Little Steven of 'The E-Street band' jamming on many sessions. This led to the recording of 'Beat Existentialist' CD album with 'The Hornets', containing original material written by Darryl and Terry, recorded in 1991, which also features Ray Manzarek of The Doors on three tracks.
Darryl jammed with John Entwistle of 'The Who' at L.A.'s then famous China Club, which was also recorded on video. In 1993 Darryl won the role of Marc Bolan in a band formed by Miller Anderson and Dino Dines (formerly of T-Rex) creating a live show of Marc's work, which toured the UK. On their last gig, Darryl met Barry Smith, the director of the official Marc Bolan fan club, who now runs Darryl's own fanzine alongside with Barry's Bolan web site. Barry also put Darryl in touch with Bill Legend, the original hit-making drummer of T-Rex, and his band The Nightriders, with whom Darryl worked in the UK and Germany. They also recorded Darryl's next CD 'Teenage Dream', Bernard White formed White Label records for this purpose. This followed by 'Walking in Shadows', a four-track CD released in 1995, 'Gods 'n Angels' a five-track CD in 1996 and the latest CD, 'Colectomatic', an 18-track compilation of Darryl's compositions, all released on Bernard's White Label.
'Book of the Dead' was released late '98 and is a re-issue of the original U.S. release of 1990. There is additional poetry plus previously unreleased title; 'Take a dark Ride' completely repackaged including new photos and booklet. July 3rd '99, marked the release of 'Freshly Dug' Read-Manzarek. Darryl's collaboration with the legendary Ray Manzarek, of the Doors, recorded late March '99, Hollywood, L.A., the tracks were mixed and mastered in London by cool engineer 'Marto', and Darryl's good friend and project cohort, Clive Zone, who had encouraged Darryl's writings.
This is Darryl's premiere poetry works accompanied with music written by Ray.
In early 2000, Darryl finished his book of 55 selected poetry works, with illustrations from the great artist/illustrator George Underwood (Bowie/Bolan illustrator). The 'SET' poetry works can be obtained at, Waterstones or Helter Skelter book shops.
In late 2000 shooting began on a film based on Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd fame, called 'Remember A day' featuring Darryl in the lead roll of Roger Bannerman, directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, written by Bernard White, and Darryl, Clive Zone came in to lend a hand with the production.
Just Finished in Feb 2002 is a forthcoming book written by Darryl titled 'Stardom Road', based on his experiences in the acting and Rock 'n' Roll world, spanning from the mid 60's to present day.
Latest news 2002, Remember a Day has received good critical acclaim in Berlin, where it played in two festival's and two underground Kino's, the film also did well in London at its Camden town premier where 275 hard core punters turned out for the event. The film is currently being marketed for DVD and VHS release, and is distributed independently at this time by Madstar Films Ltd. RAD, has already gained the reputation of being a cult piece, featuring a heavyweight cast including Zoot Money and Jamie Foreman.
Throughout 2001, Darryl played several concerts in Berlin, including the Berlin Opera house. In Berlin he promoted 'Remember A Day', which Tip Magazine featured recently in a half page spread article.
Jan 2002, Dave Goodman ('Sex Pistols' first producer) and Darryl finished their collaboration project, on Darryl's soon to be released album CD Titled 'Shaved'. Release of this product is 1st of March 2002, signed copies and info, can be obtained from merchandising at [email protected].
In March 2003 'Remember A Day' was released on DVD and Darryl continues to promote the film at showings. In May 2003 Darryl's 'The Kreuzberg Hustle' promo B/W film was shot and will be available in July 2002 from www.e-punk.de or [email protected]
Darryl is currently into four chapters of his new book 'The Angel Of Dust', along with Concerts and poetry reading dates in Europe and the USA . 'Stardom Road' his biog/novel is set to be out around December 2003/January2004.
Update* January 2005
'Stardom Road' has been out and about, for nearly a year: and is doing very nicely. In mid -January, Darryl visited New York City: played a couple of low-key gigs ands set up some poetry readings.
Whilst struggling to find time to complete 'The Angel Of Dust' (to be released soon!), he is planning more work in NYC, Berlin, Portugal and Spain. New works in process are: Poetry book 2, solo CD album, poetry CD album and a film project.
Towards the end of 2005, marked a first in Darryl's career - both Freshly Dug and Crushed Butler UNCRUSHED were re-released on the same day - 26th of October 2005, on Cherry Red labels - Lemon and RPM for the UK.
Update* 17th of December 2005.
Darryl recently Collaborated with Spanish House Group: The Doctors, the recording is under a new genre - Poet House - the 12inch vinyl recording of Darryl's Poem: Maybe I'ts Good If You Look At It Twice - will be released in Spain and worldwide in January 2006 - on Deep Bass Records Spain. Darryl is currently finishing off a screenplay for MADSTAR FILMS LTD, and continues to play selected concerts both solo and with his group: BEAT EXISTENTIALISTS.
Towards the end of 2006, Darryl began a mysterious film project titled GALETAMAR with German film star Ben Becker. He then recorded a new poetry CD album with Ray Manzarek of the DOORS titled: BLEEDING PARADISE; this is the third album Ray and Darryl have collaborated on. In late December Darryl played concerts at the White Trash Club Berlin and Regonbogen Fabrik Club.
January 22nd 2007: Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read release their new poetry/music album worldwide.
*April 24th 2007 new promo film release of Sam Cha Cha from the album BLEEDING PARADISE by Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read. The German film star Ben Becker is Sam Cha Cha, Svenja is Maria, and Darryl Read is Richard Bartlett.
The Madstar Films Ltd production of a Darryl Read film/Edited by Karo Goetsch can viewed on youtube.com under the title of: MadstarFilms Ltd - 'Sam Cha Cha'.
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*January 2008 Darryl and Beat Existentialists release a 3 track Maxi single titled Stepping Ace Roadhouse. Tracks are Stepping Stone/Ace Supreme/Roadhouse Blues. Darryl will continue his once monthly concerts a White Trash Fast Food Berlin, and is contributing more filming to a documentary on his works, and later in the year should see the release of new poetry works.
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*In April 2008 Director Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon and Darryl filmed additional scenes for Remember a Day that could not have been filmed at the time of the original production, the scenes were written by the late and great Bernard White and Darryl. This is a first in cinematic film history, as no film company has returned 7 years later to a production to shoot and re-edit sequences into an existing version. This will insure a completely new version of Remember a Day. The film boasts a very special cast including Zoot Money, Jenny Fabian, Jamie Foreman, Peter Jenner and Darryl in the leading roll of Roger Bannerman ---- a reclusive character very close to the late Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.
Enough to get on with for a while!
Biography originally compiled by Clive Zone and Jim Ryder Feb 2002.
*Up-dated by Clive Zone 26th of April 2007
Info and press details contact:
Clive Zone
[email protected]
For 'Stardom Road' and poetry book details contact:
Judith Murdoch Literary agency UK
SET poetry book and other forth coming works contact www.gryphon-verlag.de Germany
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Darryl Read Biography
by Ralph Heibutzki for AMG ALLMUSIC
Poet, provocateur, pinup, and punk forerunner: British drummer/guitarist Darryl Read has packed all these roles into four decades of music, film, and TV work. Read won his first notice at 14 with an award for his film Daylight Robbery. He began chasing the rock & roll dream in 1968 as a drummer for the Crayon Angels, a psychedelic punk group managed by pirate DJ Emperor Rosko. In 1969, Read and guitarist Jesse Hector formed Crushed Butler, a thunderous power trio that spent two grueling years chasing a record deal (and memorably panned as "three ugly, heavy musicians, playing music to match"). The band is now seen as a progenitor of punk; its recordings have been reissued as Uncrushed (1998). Read's rock & roll dreams went on hold after the group's 1971 demise, but he landed on his feet with a job at Track Records.He then won a part that allowed him to combine acting with music: guitarist Keith Richards in the play Let the Good Stones Roll, which opened at Scotland's Edinburgh Festival. Read followed with another role in Bastard Angel, a play based loosely on the Kinks. When the British music scene proved unreceptive, Read shifted priorities to Germany and the U.S., where he's divided most of his time since the 1980s. He's worked with a dizzying array of musicians, including former T. Rex drummer Bill Legend and late percussionist Mickey Finn, which led to the Walking in Shadows (1995) and Gods 'n' Angels (1996) EPs. Read forged another significant relationship with Third World War's Terry Stamp, with whom he collaborated on two gothic punk-leaning albums, Book of the Dead (1990) and Beat Existentialist (1991). As the '90s ended, Read expanded his multimedia profile with Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who'd guested on Beat Existentialist. The pair collaborated on Freshly Dug (1999), which mated Read's poetry to Manzarek's salutary keyboard style. (In 2000, 55 more poems appeared in Read's book Set.) Read spent 2002 collaborating with former Sex Pistols producer Dave Goodman on a new album, Shaved, and promoting a new film, Remember a Day. Read played Roger Bannerman, a character inspired by the flameout of Pink Floyd's own troubled founder, Syd Barrett. As 2003 rolled on, Read began readying a limited edition of his book Stardom Road, which recounts his acting and musical experiences.
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NEW CD with RAY MANZAREK
In the year of the DOORS 40th anniversary 2007 Ray Manzarek and Darryl Readrelease their new CD poetry/music album BLEEDING PARADISE. The package includes a twenty page poetry booklet and photos with 15 minutes of video film of Ray and Darryl performing the works in the Banquet Studios San Francisco.
Released from the 22nd of January 2007 world-wide.
Advance orders can be obtained from mailto:[email protected]
and in the merchandise section of this site. More links to follow.
LINER NOTES:
Calling all Beat Defenders:
Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read need you for a revolution of the mind, safe from the "moneyed poison creed of greed":
one voice, one piano, "far from the hearth of slumber," unadorned and unrelenting:
food for thought, and food for your head.
Welcome to BLEEDING PARADISE.
Ralph Heibutzki January 2007
If you can't read the text (It's in German):
TAZ BERLIN, Mittwoch, 14. Februar 2007
Gedichte mit Gitarre und Klavier
Poet, Provokateur, Pinup und Wegbereiter der Punks - das ist der britische Schlagzeuger und Gitarrist DARRYL READ.
Zusammen mit seinem Freund, dem ehemaligen Keyboarder der DOORS Ray Manzarek, hat er letztes Jahr das Album "BLEEDING PARADISE" eingespielt.
Morgen praesentiert DARRYL READ es - an Klavier und Gitarre - im White Trash Fast Food.
Unterstuetztwird der Musiker dabei von einer dreikoepfigen Band und Ueberraschiungsgaesten.
In "BLEEDING PARADISE" treffen Manzareks jazzige Klavierriffs auf READs Spoken-Word-Poeme.
Nachzulesen sind diese und auch andere READ-Gedichte im 20-seitigen CD-Booklet.
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Ray Manzarek: Life After Jim Morrison - Part I
16th, 2007 by Michael Sutton
Categories: The Big Question (Interviews), Music, Mike Sutton
Written by Michael Sutton
For Ray Manzarek, the Beat goes on.
In fact, the Beat has never stopped. Even after Jim Morrison’s shocking death in 1971
and the Doors’ subsequent break-up two years later, the group’s legendary keyboardist has never faded from the rock & roll scene.
Whether it’s producing post-punk pioneers such as X and Echo & the Bunnymen or resurrecting the Doors with a new frontman, Manzarek continues to mesmerize and move new generations of listeners with his atmospheric, jazz-inflected playing.
One of the most intriguing projects that Manzarek has involved himself with lately is a collaboration with late ’60s garage rock survivor Darryl Read,
frontman for Britain’s first punk band Crush Butler. Combining Read’s existentialist Beat poetry with Manzarek’s cinematic keyboards,
the two create fevered art on Bleeding Paradise, their third team-up.
In an interview conducted on March 14, Manzarek explained his long fascination with the Beat Generation
and how it led to the formation of the Doors and his creative partnership with Read.
Manzarek has known Read for 20 years. According to Manzarek, what attracted him to Read’s poetry was that “it’s got a street credibility,
an instant punch in the nose,” he said. “It’s now, it’s today, and yet it’s got its roots firmly set in the Beat Generation.”
It was the work of the Beat Generation, the groundbreaking, spontaneous, and in-your-face words of underground icons such as Allen Ginsberg
and Jack Kerouac, that opened the Doors for Manzarek. Manzarek revealed that the writing of the Beats was “the reason the Doors came together in the first place,
an attempt to wed poetry and rock & roll, the same way that the Beats had wed poetry and jazz.”
In some ways, Manzarek’s work with Read unites both approaches as Read’s delivery booms with punk intensity while Manzarek’s lushly crafted keyboards have the playful energy of jazz.
To Be Continued
(For more information on Ray Manzarek and Darryl Read, go to: http://www.raymanzarek.us and http://www.darrylread.com).
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Darryl, Ray & Robby Paris July 3rd 2007
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2008 Release STEPPING ACE ROADHOUSE maxi single 3 tracks. Sleeve (c)Marion Schult 2007, download here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/darrylread9
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2009 February 7th new release: COLECTOMATIC voulume 2

2009 February 7th new release: COLECTOMATIC voulume 2 The long awaited COLECTOMATIC volume 2 is out today 7th of February 2009 ---- Darryl's new album features previously unreleased demo recordings amongst a neat selection of other works released ---- to make up a fine and hip compilation for your music pleasure. Excutice producer SILKS. COMPILATION BY: ROB RAW & DARRYL READ --- for BEAT KAT RECORDS 2009TRACK LISTINGS: 1 Revolution Comes 2 West End Girl 3 Misfit Ball 4 Ice and Fire 5 Through My Eyes 6 Rip the Night 7 Action Speaks Louder 8 Soul Kitchen 9 Evil to the Core 10 She’s Lovely but Deadly 11 Dance of the Suncult 12 Brand New Cadillac 13 Blue Fandango Man 14 Who’ll Be the Next in Line 15 Love With a Perfect Stranger 16 My Baby Runs Good 17 Bird Song Clock 18 Love Falling Like Rain 19 Walking Street 20 The Man Will Know Us When We Get There
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March 13th 2010 COLECTOMATIC Volume 3 OUT NOW!

Darryl's New compilation album COLECTOMATIC voloume 3 is released today for downloads here is the link: http://cdbaby.com/cd/DarrylRead12 The album will be also available in Itunes this compilation features some unreleased demo's and unreleased archival works --- a must for hard core Read fans! Download in Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/colectomatic-vol-3/id362372 466Photo of Darryl by Marion Schult - layout Robby Linke (c) 2009
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