Teardrop (band)

Formation

Pete Renton made various soundtracks for short films such as linkhere which was played at the Cannes film festival, and also was part of numerous bands. Jono Renton did his own thing studying Music Technology at college and making a small ambient project titled 'Long Journey'.

The two decided to give a shot at writing and recording material together which would then be produced by Peter. The first track they made was a song called "Vuttony" which can be found as a B-side on the Vuttony EP. Whilst in Scotland they decided to call themselves Teardrop, after listening to the song "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. They chose the name while travelling Scotland, in Edinburgh. This is also were a lot of the Queensferry EP was written.

Queensferry EP

Their debut EP (Queensferry EP) featured their song "Vuttony" which had got fans excited from Myspace and GarageBand.com. As well as fans, the song "Vuttony" brought the band numerous awards including best chillout track for three weeks running, track of the day, best melody, best mood and best song in electronica.^[1]

"Our first track together as Teardrop was Vuttony, Jono came up to me one afternoon and showed me a riff he played on his Takamine, by the evening we had that song done, "it all seemed to just work" says producer Peter Renton.^[2]

The album was released on 19 June 2006^[3] by an independent record label/distributor PAR Records.

Time Spent With Antique Mirrors

The band's first full-length album was written and recorded for over a year. Originally the album was titled 'Euphoria' but having stuck with that name for a long time, the two decided they needed a fresh new image, changing the band's identity typeface and re-naming of the album. "Both of us are perfectionists, it doesn’t take us long to write the material, it's the recording that takes longest, getting what we have in our heads out and on to the computer." says Jono. So far the album contains a wider variety of music in relation to the previous EP. "The Queensferry EP was more of a test, Euphoria is the real thing" Pete announced on the official Teardrop MySpace.^[4]

The original artwork for the album was done by Chris Mise, a graphic designer. But due to title change, they started preparing a photo that Jono took, but later found a photo by a friend of the bands, Dan Williams^[5] fitted the music and their style a lot more. Dan Williams was more than happy to have the image as the front cover.

Next studio album

Announced on the official site, in April 2007, a remix album was in its beginning stages, titled 'Wireless Euphoria' it will contain the "Open Arms" (Wireless Remix) that was featured on the Wireless Studios^[6] design site (as background music), as well as other remixed versions of songs from the Euphoria album. The arwork for the album was shown on Myspace, its cover is a photo of a mixing desk taken by Matthew Harper, a friend of the band.