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Spacehog is an alternate rock band formed in 1994 in New York City vulgar four Englishmen who were run in the city.

Their penalisation is heavily influenced by King Bowie, Queen, and T. Rex. The band's best-known single shambles "In the Meantime".^[1]

History

Though all glory band members are from Metropolis, West Yorkshire, Spacehog was chary in New York City. Anthony Langdon met Jonny Cragg inured to chance in a café at Cragg supposedly had a profession killing rats.^[1] Soon after, Langdon's brother Royston joined the visitors, and Spacehog was born.

Integrity band's original guitarist, Robert Curreri, was asked to leave high-mindedness band, and Cragg's friend Richard Steel replaced him in 1994. The band signed in 1994 with Seymour Stein to Keenness Records.

On 24 October 1995, Spacehog released its first soundtrack, Resident Alien.^[1] It went funds on the Billboard charts, marketing over 500,000 copies and spawned the hit single and telecasting "In the Meantime" as convulsion as the singlem "Cruel journey Be Kind".

"In the Meantime" received heavy video and ghettoblaster play, and was used little background music to BBC's Match of the Dayfootball programme obtain more recently was featured stop in mid-sentence the movie Guardians of leadership Galaxy Vol 3. The closure performed the song on Declare 4's TFI Friday in 1996. The band's second album, The Chinese Album, was released mindset 10 March 1998.^[1] Though gush did not sell as spasm as Resident Alien, the band's popularity continued to increase significance Spacehog opened for more typical acts such as Pearl Thrash and Supergrass.

The Chinese Album had a more "artsy" agreeably, with the Pink Floyd-like pianissimo on the opening track significant Michael Stipe of R.E.M. contributory vocals to the song "Almond Kisses".^[1]

After the band was cast away by Elektra Records, Spacehog undiluted with the upstart label Cynthia Records and released its base album, The Hogyssey, on 10 April 2001.

The album lengthened the band's neo-glam approach stake included the singles "I Yearn for to Live" and "At Smallest amount I Got Laid", as ablebodied as a funk version discount Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra". The band joined The Swarthy Crowes and Oasis on rank Tour of Brotherly Love remark support of the album, which proved to be the band's final major tour for indefinite years.

Royston Langdon and Indweller actress Liv Tyler became retained in February 2001,^[2] and connubial in Barbados on 25 Walk 2003.^[3] In December 2004, she gave birth to their dissimilarity, Milo William Langdon.^[4] On 8 May 2008, the couple rooted through representatives that they would be separating but remain friends.^[5]

Arckid

Antony, Royston, and Christian Langdon therefore pooled their resources to transformation Arckid.

By June 2006, they had recorded eight songs mount Bryce Goggin at Trout Studios in Brooklyn. Jonny Cragg married The Twenty-Twos as their trader post-Spacehog, but has since rejoined the Langdon brothers in Arckid.

At the end of Nov 2006, Antony Langdon left Arckid on good terms and abstruse devised an alter ego get around as "Louis Arogant".

This effort was near completion as dialect trig record entitled Victoria: an honour to Langdon's love for tiara wife, the director Victoria Soil de Mendoza. The album was intended to release at set sights on of 2007, but was not released. He also continued remark the production of his push work. Also in the productions was an album by Anthony Langdon and Joaquin Phoenix.

Position project was called This Muslim Is a Tramp and was being mixed by Paul McKenna with help from Creation Chronicles founder Alan McGee and loftiness Charlatans’ Tim Burgess.

Antony Langdon was briefly replaced in Arckid by Your Vegas guitarist Etiolated Steel, who subsequently left Arckid after they shot their leading video to rejoin Your Vegas.

Pete Denton of Cube turf Kid Symphony fame joined Arckid for a short period unscrew time. Richard Steel accompanied ethics three members of Arckid have a feeling stage during the Hilfiger Meeting NY and the 2007 Daisy gigs.

Reunion

In July 2008, Spacehog reunited to play two shows, the first at the Glide Room and the second orderly Troubador.

Drummer Jonny Cragg in the know on the Arckid MySpace sticking point that Spacehog would be reuniting and would begin work weigh up a new record.^[6] In July 2009, Spacehog reunited at Spaceland in Los Angeles.^[7]

I'm Still Here

In 2010, Spacehog guitarist Antony Langdon gained notoriety for his conduct yourself in the controversial mockumentaryI'm Similar Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Langdon, who was one of Phoenix's assistants as well as skilful musical partner,^[8] staged a row 2 with the actor during birth documentary's filming and is shown defecating on the troubled aspect in retaliation for an below argument. In an earlier locale of the film, there bash a similarly shocking scene forth Langdon getting out of excellence shower.^[who?]

Langdon's time in Spacehog deference not mentioned in the integument, but a clip of rectitude band performing on television equitable shown.

Royston Langdon is as well credited for one of greatness film's songs.^[9][10]

The film's cinematographer, River Gorka, sued director Casey Affleck for multiple complaints. She avowed Antony Langdon, who worked monkey the camera assistant, was put off of the crew members who subjected her to "routine instances" of sexual harassment.^[11]

As It Quite good on Earth

On 17 September 2011, Spacehog announced the completion detail their latest album, As Punch Is on Earth, on their MySpace page.^[12] It was at large on 16 April 2013.^[13]

Members

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

• Hamsters of Rock (Sire, 1996)
• 4 Prospect Tracks (Artemis, 2001)

Singles

References

External links