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IKON

Official IKON Live Journal

Created on 2004-02-11 20:17:05 (#2187873), last updated 2009-05-10

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Location:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website:	IKON on Myspace

Contact:

afterlife@sunet.com.au

Bio

Like other inspired musical pairings, Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to create music as high school students in 1988 and are still recording and performing together. In 1991, the original moniker Death in the Dark was replaced by IKON and seventeen years later the Australian band’s distinctive blend of post-punk, rock, and darkwave elements has gained a devoted international following.

IKON has released five studio albums, four EPs and seventeen singles, with additional unique versions that have been produced for Germany, America and Russia. The band’s last full-length release, Destroying the World to Save It, attained number 21 on the Native DJ World Charts for best album of 2005. IKON songs have also appeared on dozens of compilation CDs and the band has contributed cover versions to a select group of tribute albums to Joy Division, The Cure and Kraftwerk.

On the strength of the band’s accomplished and ever-expanding repertoire of songs, IKON has frequently toured Australia, Europe and the UK. IKON has played on the same bill as The Sisters of Mercy, H.I.M., Soft Cell, Death in June, London After Midnight and The Mission. IKON has performed at the Eurorock Festival (2001) in Belgium and at the M’era Luna Festival (2002) in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people. The band has also appeared twice at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, in 2003 and 2005 (during the latter year Anthony Cornish joined the live line-up on guitar).

In 2007, the final word was written in one chapter of IKON’s musical legacy when the band embarked upon ‘The Burden of History’ tour of Europe to mark the release of the singles collection (1992-2007) of the same name. As Time Goes By also appeared and brought the first studio sessions of the original incarnation of IKON and live tracks from the same period out of the archives and into the hands of fans.

The new EP League of Nations (2007) is testament to progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (anticipated release mid-2008). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands.

Dino Molinaro bass

Chris McCarter vocals/guitar

Anthony Cornish guitar

Photography by anjellaroessler

IKON has released the first single from the band's forthcoming release Love, Hate and Sorrow called Amongst The Runes. The Ep features a cover of Pink Floyd's Set The Controls For The Heart, which is one of a dozen songs that will feature on the covers compilation A Different Story to be released as a download album by Cleopatra Records. The Ep also includes three additional tracks from the album sessions and an extended version of the single.

Tracklisting

Amongst the Runes

Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun (long version)

War of Love

Nowhere to Turn

Stalag 13

Amongst the Runes (extended version)

IKON (imm3245) ebay link

IKON's current full length release THE BURDEN OF HISTORY a compilation cd containing all 16 singles, even though Without Shadows has not been released to date, can be purchased via

Equinoxe Records in Europe

IKON in Australia

The first 1500 copies, comes with a bonus cd, with selected b-sides from all the IKON singles. This compilation features certain material available on cd for the first time, as well as long deleted single tracks!

CD1

Why (7”single version)

Echoes of Silence (7” single version)

Condemnation (7” single version)

Life Without End (Album version)

Subversion (Single remix)

Ghost In My Head (Single remix)

Reality is lost (Single version)

Lifeless (Single version)

The Shallow Sea (Single version)

Blue Snow Red Rain (10” single version)

Afterlife (7” single version)

Ceremony (Single version)

Psychic Vampire (Single version)

Rome (Single version)

Without Shadows (Single version)

CD2-Limited edition

As Time Goes By-(Live at the Arthouse Melbourne 1.1.1992)

So Far Away

Never Too Much

The Empty World

Overcome

Geistiges Erwachen

Fatal Attraction

Day Of Crispian

Tear It Down

Faces In the Wind

Elohim (Live in Cologne Germany 13.8.2001)

In A Lonely Place

Blue Snow Red Rain (Live In Milano Italy 16.6.2003)

Sinister

Understanding

The Garden Of The Lost (Live in Sydney Australia 17.9.2005)

IKON's release DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT can be purchased via -

Metropolis Records in the USA

Equinoxe Records in Europe

IKON in Australia

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums

* The Burden of History (2007)

* As Time Goes By (The original IKON) (2007)

* Destroying The World To Save It (2005)

* From Angels To Ashes (2003)

* On The Edge Of Forever (2001)

* Dawn Of The Ikonoclast (1999)

* This Quiet Earth (1998)

* The Final Experience (1997)

* Flowers For The Gathering (1996)

* A Moment In Time (1995)

* In The Shadow Of The Angel (1994)

EPs

* Psychic Vampires (2004)

* Ghost In My Head (1998)

* The Echos Of Silence (1994)

Singles

* Without Shadows (2007)

* Rome (2005)

* Death By Dawn (7" Single 2005)

* I Never Wanted You (2004)

* Psychic Vampire (2004)

* Ceremony (2003)

* Afterlife (2002)

* Afterlife (7" Single/2002)

* Blue Snow Red Rain (10" Single/2001)

* The Shallow Sea Pt. 2 (2000)

* The Shallow Sea Pt. 1 (2000)

* Lifeless (1999)

* Reality Is Lost (1999)

* Subversion (1998)

* Life Without End (1996)

* In A Lonely Place (1995)

* Condemnation (7" Single/1995)

* The Echos Of Silence (7" Single/1994)

* Why (7" Single/1992)

Live Albums

* Black Friday (Live at the Blackout Club, Rome, Italy) (2003)

* Twilight Zone (Live at Eurorock Belgium) (7" Single/2003)

* A Tale from the Darkside (Live in Berlin) (2001)

* Black Radio (Live at Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne) (2001)

* Black Radio (Live at Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne) (12" vinyl lp/1995)

* Thank you very much, good night (Live in Melbourne) (1994)

* Out of Balance, out of Tune (Live in Melbourne) (1993)