The Colourfield

The Colourfield
Origin	Coventry, UK
Genres	New wave, pop rock
Years active	1984–1987
Labels	Chrysalis
Past members	Terry Hall Toby Lyons Karl Shale

The Colourfield discography
Studio albums	2
Compilation albums	1
EPs	1
Singles	10

The Colourfield were a British band formed in 1984 in Manchester when former Specials and Fun Boy Three frontman Terry Hall joined up with ex-Swinging Cats members Toby Lyons and Karl Shale. Despite the fact that all three members were from Coventry, the band was based in Manchester.

In January 1984 The Colourfield released their first single, "The Colour Field", which just missed making the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. In the summer of the same year, they released "Take" as their second single, which commercially performed less well. Their third single was "Thinking of You", released in January 1985, which reached number 12 in the UK chart, and featured Katrina Phillips accompanying Hall on vocals. Their fourth single, released days before their debut album came out, was "Castles in the Air" which reached the lower reaches of the UK chart.

When Virgins and Philistines was initially released in April 1985 it contained twelve tracks in the US release and ten in the UK version – but can now be found with twenty tracks as a Japanese re-release, containing many B-sides and live tracks. It failed to gain a large audience due to difficulty in marketing an album with such a diverse sound—it mixes 1960s and early 1970s pop music with more acoustic based melodies and string arrangements. Virgins and Philistines is often regarded as the direct musical predecessor to the later work of other northern bands The Beautiful South and The Lightning Seeds in the 1990s; Hall later collaborated with the latter in a songwriting role and also provided occasional vocals. Virgins and Philistines reached No. 12 in the UK album charts.

Virgins and Philistines contained all original material except "The Hammond Song" (a cover of The Roches song), and—in the US—"Can't Get Enough of You Baby" (written by Linzer/Randell), which was the only track that received much airplay. The album was recorded at Strawberry Studios in and was produced by Hugh Jones and Jeremy Green, and engineered by Chris Jones.

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