A decade-long exercise in daring the listener to guess where they were going to go next, Liverpool’s magnificently flawed dreamers the Icicle Works first fluttered into mass awareness with 1983’s top ...

The dramatic cover is slower and more atmospheric than R.E.M.’s jangly original. McNabb’s version features prominent piano, as well as some chiming guitar-riffing from Buck. A companion, AI-generated ...

The Icicle Works are an English alternative rock band. Named after the 1960 short story “The Day the Icicle Works Closed” by science fiction author Frederik Pohl, The Icicle Works joined Liverpool’s ...

R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has collaborated with The Icicle Works’ Ian McNabb on a new version of ‘So. Central Rain’ – listen below. The track – originally released as a single from R.E.M.’s second ...

No. People just cannot get enough. On December 8 (Sunday), 2024, the frontmen of Gene Loves Jezebel, Fra Lippo Lippi, and Icicle Works will take music fans back to a nostalgic 1980s trip when they ...

Icicle Works frontman Ian McNabb then and now. Photos from Ian McNabb’s official website and Facebook page. Ian McNabb was at home and trying to write a song when he came up with a fast-paced beat. He ...

Liverpudlian neo-psychedelia pioneers will reform for their '30th Anniversary Tour' (1981-2011) in spring 2011 visiting Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London. 'The Icicle Works' rose to fame in ...

AS Ian McNabb sang in The Icicle Works' song Hollow Horse, "we’ll be as we are when all the fools who doubt us fade away". Thirty three years later, McNabb and his present incarnation of The Icicle ...

Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock (a veteran drummer who was also in Icicle Works, World Party and The La's), play at The Rave on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. Beady Eye, featuring former Oasis members Liam ...