Ian McCulloch
English singer-songwriter and musicianWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
GrahamHOST
... also, uh, Dark Parade is very Echo & the Bunnymen.
GrahamHOST
He even sounds like Ian McCulloch on Dark Parade.
PatrickHOST
[rock music]
GrahamHOST
[rock music]Yeah, Our Secret, I think.
ChrisHOST
Before he became the grand pop architect we just heard, Wiley was a crucial component of Liverpool's late 70s punk explosion.
ChrisHOST
In 1977, he famously formed the Crucial Three alongside future icons Julian Cope, who of course went on to teardrop, and Ian McCulloch, who of course went on to echo.
ChrisHOST
The band lasted barely a few weeks and never played a gig, but it acts as a fantastic what-if of British alternative music.
ChrisHOST
Undeterred by rapid breakups, Wiley bounced around other short-lived projects, including The Mystery Girls with Julian Cope and Pete Burns, as well as The Spitfire Boys.
AndyGUEST
Uh, particularly St Vitus Dance, we used to do a lot of gigs with.
AndyGUEST
Um, their singer at one point ended up being singer for The Bonnymen when Ian McCulloch, uh, was off being solo.
AndyGUEST
Uh, they got Noel as the, the singer.
AndyGUEST
They did that album Reverberation, which is a very good album.
Tony FletcherGUEST
They're both, um, Liverpool acts, and they, they represent and reflect that confidence that, uh, Liverpool has always had in itself.
Tony FletcherGUEST
Um, Pete Wiley, uh, who basically is Wah!, had been in a fictional band [laughs] with Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen and Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes.
Tony FletcherGUEST
Um, they, they were, they were known as the Crucial Three, though they never played a gig.
Tony FletcherGUEST
And, um, Pete Wiley had sort of, you know, had to follow on from the successes of the other two.
Nick BrunnerGUEST
I will then, I go back on all that and listen to something like this new record called Apples for Isaac, uh, out this year, but it's transported me back to 1984 or whatever, and I'm just having a blast with it.
Nick BrunnerGUEST
Uh, Echo & the Bunnymen sounds as sharp as they did back in the early '80s, and I think I have to credit a lot of that to vocalist Ian McCulloch's voice.
Nick BrunnerGUEST
It's just so strong and resonant, and it's just held up so, so well over the decades, and I think this track here will, uh, will help illustrate why.
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Don't want you looking.
Paul NolanHOST
Because I interviewed James like about, you know, five years ago now.
Paul NolanHOST
And he was saying, like, there is that whole element where like in the 80s with people like, you know, Marky Smith, Ian McCulloch, where...
Paul NolanHOST
It was like an art form, like slagging off your beers.
Paul NolanHOST
So, like, they totally bought into that.
Johnny MarrGUEST
You know, we all did it.
Johnny MarrGUEST
Ian McCulloch and, and Bernard Sumner from New, New Order was like we, we just didn't mind looking...
Johnny MarrGUEST
We, we were very not very macho.
Johnny MarrGUEST
And I think that goes into the music as well.
Paul HowarthHOST
You can hear,
Tony HarrisHOST
certainly in the lyrics, you can see Ian McCulloch being somebody quite taken in by the whole persona of Tom Verlaine.
Paul HowarthHOST
I'll throw another one into the mix in that early 2000s period, which is Hives, who I went to see live, actually.
Paul HowarthHOST
And again, the opening track, See No Evil, you can hear that in Main Offender.
RichardHOST
A couple of their big hits, they're part of my musical canon, but most part, not really into them.
JohnHOST
So you're probably not aware of this album from 1990 after lead singer Ian McCulloch left and they replaced him with a ringer.
JohnHOST
It's really good.
JohnHOST
It didn't do well.
ThrakHOST
I think he was like late 20s when Yes finally formed.
ThrakHOST
He was in a band called The Warriors, which actually one of their drummers was Ian McCulloch from King Crimson.
ThrakHOST
So, you know, there's connections everywhere.
ThrakHOST
But he was kind of in and out of bands.