Hue and Cry
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Hue and Cry is a pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 duo
Duet (music)
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 formed in 1983 in Coatbridge
Coatbridge
Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. The first settlement of the area stretches back to the Stone Age era...

, Scotland
Scotland
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 by the brothers
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 Pat Kane
Pat Kane
Pat Kane is a Scottish musician, and half of the pop duo Hue and Cry with his younger brother Greg.Independently of Hue & Cry, lead singer Kane writes on politics and culture...

 (vocals) and Greg Kane (Music/Production). They had a number of modest hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
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 in the late 1980s, and early 1990s, and have released sixteen album
Album
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s from 1987 to date.

Career

Their first single "Here Comes Everybody" was released on a small Glasgow
Glasgow
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-based independent label, Stampede in 1984. While not a chart
Record chart
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 hit, it attracted the interest of Virgin Records
Virgin Records
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' subsidiary Circa
Circa
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 who signed the duo in 1986.
Their debut single for Circa, "I Refuse", reached number 85 in the UK Singles Chart. Their second single and, to date, biggest hit was "Labour of Love
Labour of Love (song)
"Labour of Love" was a hit single by Scottish duo/brothers Greg and Pat Kane, better known as Hue and Cry. Included on the album "Seduced and Abandoned", it was released as their second single in 1987 after their first hit "I Refuse" had failed to make the UK top 75.Showcasing a somewhat funky...

" (1987, UK No. 6), from the debut album Seduced and Abandoned (1987, UK No. 22). Other UK Top 40 hits included "Looking for Linda" (1989, UK No. 15) and "Violently (Your Words Hit Me)", an EP that reached No. 21 - both from their second album Remote (1988, UK No. 10). Remote was re-released in 1989 as a double album
Double album
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, including "Bitter Suite", a live recording.

In the 1990s the brothers embarked upon a period of musical experimentation. Their 1991 album Stars Crash Down (UK No. 10) pushed the boundaries of the pop genre, embracing folk
Folk music
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, country
Country music
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, Latin
Latin
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 and quartet jazz
Jazz
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. Truth & Love (1992, UK No. 33) was released on the brothers' own short-lived label, Fidelity. Hue and Cry had a brief chart revival in 1993 with the release of the Circa compilation album Labours of Love - The Best of Hue and Cry (UK No. 27), which included a Joey Negro
Joey Negro
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 remix of "Labour of Love" (UK No. 25).

1994 saw a successful collaboration with jazz
Jazz
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 arranger
Arrangement
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 and composer
Composer
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, Richard Niles
Richard Niles
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. This produced the album Showtime! and the single "Just Say You Love Me". Pat Kane continued to work with Niles sporadically on many live concerts for BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
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 with the BBC Big Band
BBC Big Band
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. In 1996 Hue and Cry signed to the Scottish jazz and classical record label
Record label
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, Linn Records
Linn Records
Linn Records is a Glasgow-based record label which specialises in classical, jazz and Scottish music. It is part of Linn Products.-History:While Linn engineers were testing their flagship product, the Sondek LP12 turntable, they became frustrated with some of the specialist test LPs they were using...

, for an intended trilogy of albums. First came JazzNotJazz, an album that mixed jazz
Jazz
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 with non-jazz sounds. The album was recorded in a week during the Glasgow Jazz Festival, enlisting the services of some of the jazz musicians visiting the city. They included Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

 (tenor sax) and Randy Brecker
Randy Brecker
Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...

 (trumpet
Trumpet
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) - who had played on the Remote album - as well as guitarist Mike Stern
Mike Stern
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 (sidesman with Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

), drummer
Drummer
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 Danny Gottlieb (Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...

) and saxophonist Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith (saxophonist)
Tommy Smith is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator. The late jazz critic Richard Cook said of him, 'Of the generation which emerged in the mid-80s, he might be the most outstandingly talented'.-Biography:...

.

Next Move (1999) was even more radical, embracing drum 'n' bass, R&B
Rhythm and blues
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 and Nuyorican
Nuyorican
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 Latin-funk
Funk
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. The album contained a controversial cover of Prince's "Sign 'O' the Times", which they stripped bare and built up again as an aggressive bebop
Bebop
Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...

 number.

The intended third album on Linn Records would never see the light of day, and Pat and Greg concentrated on their solo projects - Pat with his writing and solo performing, and Greg with his music production.

In April 2005 Hue and Cry made a comeback when they won the fourth-week heat of the ITV1
ITV1
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 pop-competition show Hit Me Baby One More Time
Hit Me Baby One More Time
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with a rendition of "Labour of Love" and a cover
Cover version
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 of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love (song)
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". They were beaten in the final by Shakin' Stevens
Shakin' Stevens
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.

The band followed this up with dates in Scotland, a piano-vocal spot in support of Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...

 at the 'Live on the Lawn' festival in Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire
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, and a set in front of 25,000 at Glasgow's Hogmanay
Hogmanay
Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner...

 party. Their concert
Concert
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s in 2006 and 2007 sold out. The band also performed two nights at the West End festival in Glasgow in 2007, where they showcased piano-vocal versions of new and old songs. They also played Retrofest at Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland...

 on 2 September 2007, and headlined the Darvel Music Festival on 5 October. The duo showcased new tracks at a gig in Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms on 12 July 2008. At this time the duo also allowed fans exclusive access to them with the Hue And Cry Music Club through the official website.

On 15 September 2008, they released their Open Soul album, for which recording
Sound recording and reproduction
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 and mixing finished in 2007. The first single "The Last Stop" on digital download
Music download
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 was released on 1 September and coincided with the 20th anniversary of the release of their biggest selling album to date Remote. Their 'Open Soul' tour had sold out dates in Inverness
Inverness
Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...

, Aberdeen
Aberdeen
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, Glasgow, London
London
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, Manchester
Manchester
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 and Sheffield
Sheffield
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, beginning on 11 September 2008. On 1 December the band released a second single "Heading for a Fall". They also opened for legendary soul singer Al Green on 30 October. They completed a tour of House of Fraser
House of Fraser
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 stores and in February 2009 embarked on another sell out UK tour, billed as 'Open Soul..Open Road'. On 6 February EMI released a 'Best Of Collection
Greatest hits
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' and the band released a third single called "Fireball."

May 2009 saw the band headline the "Burns an a that" festival in Ayrshire and play an acoustic set in Aberdeen. In July 2009 the brothers supported Human League at Thetford Forest and, in November 2009, played at "Homecoming Live- The Final Fling" They released a Christmas album on 30 November 2009 entitled Xmasday. Hue and Cry played sold out nights as part of the History City weekend on 18 and 19 December 2009.

Albums



Singles

  • 1986 "Here Comes Everybody"
  • 1987 "I Refuse"
  • 1987 "Labour of Love
    Labour of Love (song)
    "Labour of Love" was a hit single by Scottish duo/brothers Greg and Pat Kane, better known as Hue and Cry. Included on the album "Seduced and Abandoned", it was released as their second single in 1987 after their first hit "I Refuse" had failed to make the UK top 75.Showcasing a somewhat funky...

    " #6 UK
    UK Singles Chart
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  • 1987 "Strength To Strength" #46 UK
  • 1988 "I Refuse" #47 UK
  • 1988 "Ordinary Angel" #42 UK
  • 1989 "Looking For Linda" #15 UK
  • 1989 "Violently" (EP) #21 UK
  • 1989 "Sweet Invisibility" #55 UK
  • 1989 "Peaceful Face"
  • 1991 "My Salt Heart" #47 UK
  • 1991 "Long Term Lovers of Pain" (EP) #48 UK
  • 1991 "She Makes A Sound"
  • 1992 "Profoundly Yours" #74 UK
  • 1993 "Labour of Love (re-mix)" #25 UK
  • 1994 "Just Say You Love Me"
  • 1994 "Cynical"
  • 2008 "The Last Stop"
  • 2009 "Fireball"
  • 2009 "Headin' For a Fall"
  • 2009 "Players Of Games" / "Two Little Boys"


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