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One Minute Silence | |
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| Origin | Ireland |
| Genres | Rap metal,[1]nu metal[2] |
| Years active |
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| Labels | Big Cat Records (1997–2002) Taste Media (2002–2003) Micro Records/Micro Inc. Recordings (1995–1997, 2011–present) |
| Members | Brian 'Yap' Barry Massimo Fiocco Martin Davies Glen Diani |
| Past members | Eddie Stratton Kee Payne Chris Ignatiou |
One Minute Silence is an Irish four-piecerap metal/nu metal band based in London, England. The band consists of vocalist Brian 'Yap' Barry, fromTemplemore,County Tipperary, guitarist Massimo Fiocco from London, drummer Martin Davies, and bass guitarist Glen Diani fromGibraltar. The band announced its split after eight years in a press release dated 21 October 2003. The band officially reconvened without original drummer Eddie Stratton in 2011.
One Minute Silence came together in the early 1990s when Irish vocalist Brian Barry got together with guitarist Chris Ignatiou from London, under the name "Near Death Experience". After working with variousrhythm sections, they settled with Gibraltarian Glen Diani on bass guitar and Englishman Eddie Stratton on drums. Barry had befriended Stratton before the formation of the band. The band was soon forced to change its name because of an American group who shared it, and so it became One Minute Silence. That name, originally intended to be the title of a song, was chosen to parody the practice of having aone-minute silence as a mark of respect when someone considered "important or well respected" dies. The band felt that that respect was often "misplaced".[citation needed]
The band signed a recording contract withBig Cat Records in 1997 and releasedAvailable in All Colors the following year.
Buy Now... Saved Later followed in 2000 after an amicable split with Ignatiou (now employed by MI6), who was ultimately replaced by Italian Massimo Fiocco, known as Massy, after original replacement Kee Payne left the band in 1999. This second album represented a noticeable step in the band's musical progression: the record's production quality and style differed from that of the first, which had used ahip-hop producer.Buy Now... sounded more like a metal album. With its well-rounded production and matured song-writing,Buy Now... sent the band on a tour of the US, with notable acts such asSlipknot andMudvayne, the latter touring with them in the UK as supporting act.
After circulating a three-track demo and signing a deal withTaste Media, the band started recording sessions for their third album in autumn 2002. From live performances and both live and studio recordings, the new material was obviously a further progression; the group was experimenting with varioustime signatures, such as7
4, and was using more melody and a greater variation in song structure.
A single, "We Bounce", was released on 31 March 2003, with a third album, titledOne Lie Fits All, following on 7 July that year. According to the band's now-defunct website "[t]his name continues the pattern of manipulating well known marketing slogans in order to present a political statement".
Between these releases, One Minute Silence had toured extensively, though the last tour had to be cancelled. The group's following came largely from their energetic live shows – they have been voted "Best British Live Act" inKerrang! magazine.
In October 2003, the band announced its split:
After One Minute Silence's break-up, Yap followed his spoken-word career, appearing onBBC Radio 4'sBespoken Word.[3]
After One Minute Silence, Barry began to write and perform new material as a slam poet and public speaker. The new material began to grow into a music project when he met producer John Hendicott and vocalist Donna Williams in 2005. A new band, Pink Punk, was formed and in 2006 the first album,Zoo Politics, emerged as an independent release on Freeport Records.[4] The band's website, PPunk.com, went live later in 2006 and by the end of the year the album was oniTunes,Napster and more than 7000 digital retailers worldwide through Universal Digital and IODA (US). Pink Punk had a live show in late 2007.
In March 2008, vocalist Barry touched on the issue of a possible reunion and fourth album in an article posted on the band's unofficialMyspace page.[5]
In 2008, Edwin Stratton was suffering severely fromcoeliac disease. He was arrested in mid-2008 after fire investigators, looking into a fire in a wine bar below hisLeyton apartment, discoveredcannabis plants in his home. Stratton stated that he was growing for medical use, but was charged with producing the drugcannabis, exposing him to a potential maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Snaresbrook Crown Court handed down a sentence of three months in prison, suspended for one year with £500 costs, and prohibited Stratton from owning hydroponic equipment for one year. In November 2008, he was due to appear at theWaltham ForestMagistrates' Court and challenge the charge as a contravention of Article 14 of theHuman Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on any grounds.[6]
According to a post[7] made on 25 May 2010 on the band's Myspace page, Barry, Diani and Fiocco are recording new material with new drummer Martin Davies.
On 10 January 2011, One Minute Silence announced their official reformation and tour with new material also in the pipeline. Band members for the tour and record are Barry, Fiocco, Diani and Davies.[8]
Fragmented Armageddon EP was released on 3 May 2013.
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
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| UK [9] | UK Rock [10] | UK Indie [11] | NZ [12] | SCO [13] | ||
| 1998 | Available in All Colors
| — | — | — | 31 | — |
| 2000 | Buy Now... Saved Later
| 61 | — | — | — | 65 |
| 2003 | One Lie Fits All
| 139 | 20 | 16 | — | — |
| 2024 | The Vault
| — | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart. | ||||||
| Year | Album details |
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| 2003 | Revolution
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| 2013 | Fragmented Armageddon
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| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |
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| US Main. [15] | UK [16][17] | |||
| 1998 | "South Central" | — | — | Available in All Colors |
| "A Waste of Things to Come" | — | 199 | ||
| "Stuck Between a Rock and a White Face" | — | 148 | ||
| 2000 | "Holy Man" | 39 | 112 | Buy Now... Saved Later |
| "Fish Out of Water" | — | 56 | ||
| "Rise and Shine" | — | — | ||
| 2003 | "Revolution" | — | 138 | One Lie Fits All |
| "We Bounce" | — | — | ||
| "I Wear My Skin" | — | 44 | ||
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart. | ||||
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