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The final tour was a sell-out success, with the last gig played on 20 December 2003 at the Barbican Centre, in their hometown of York. One further album release did, however, come of their time at Taste: their only official live album, Where Have You Been Tonight? Live. Recorded at various destinations on tour in December 2002, the album was released in May 2003, six months before the band's farewell tour began. Despite gaining a loyal and ever-growing following of fans—sometimes referred to as "Shed Heads" [9]—the band failed to receive universal positive press attention in the UK; NME never featured Shed Seven on its cover, whilst the now defunct Melody Maker did so once. [3] Post-split [ edit ] Album releases [ edit ] Classic Shed Seven (2005) – DVD released as part of the Universal Masters DVD Collection series, the disc contains the promo videos of 10 Shed Seven singles. Writing for The Guardian in April 1996, Caroline Sullivan labelled A Maximum High "good, but not outstanding", as she praised guitarist Paul Banks's "exultant jangling", but found fault with the album's lyrical content. [12] The LP has also been referred to as "the band's most consistently engaging album (...) full of inspirational anthems [and] excellent shout-along, arena-ready numbers." [9] Alternate editions [ edit ] A Maximum High Special Edition CD cover. They belonged to the post- Smiths wave of British musicians such as The Sundays and Marion, with a sound relying heavily on complex guitar arpeggios often in a minor key, and wailing vocals. At the height of their popularity between 1994 and 1999 they had fifteen Top 40 singles [1] and four Top 20 albums in the UK. [2] The band officially broke up in 2003, but reformed for a greatest hits tour in July 2007. [1] Shed Seven continued to play shows around Britain periodically until releasing a new studio album in 2017 with the announcement of Instant Pleasures.

A Maximum High spent a total of 26 weeks in the UK album chart, [13] peaking at number 8 on 13 April 1996, [13] with the Special Edition reissue peaking at number 13. [13] Discounting the band's singles compilation which reached number 7 three years later, [15] chart-wise, A Maximum High is Shed Seven's most successful album to date. It has sold 186,325 copies in the United Kingdom as of November 2017.

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Elsewhere, ‘A Matter of Time’ flows from adrenalised punky power-pop right through to epic slow-burners, complete with some special guests: Happy Mondays’ legend Rowetta contributing fervent gospel vocals to ‘In Ecstasy’, Laura McClure of Reverend & The Makers on the folky-pop of ‘Tripping With You’ and Peter Doherty, who duets with Witter on the dramatic closer ‘Throwaways’. Shed Seven undertook an eighteen date tour of Scotland and England in late 2009 early 2010. [19] Other dates in 2010 included V Festival, T in the Park, Greenbelt and two dates at the recently reopened Fibbers venue in September. [ citation needed] a b c d "Shed Seven reform for Greatest Hits tour". NME. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012 . Retrieved 27 April 2009.

a b Sullivan, Caroline. "Review: Shed Seven– A Maximum High (Polydor)". Friday Review (5 April 1996): 10.The trio enlisted a new line-up for the album, calling upon drummer Rob ‘Maxi’ Maxfield ( Audioweb) and keyboardist Tim Willis ( Ian Brown). The album was produced by the Grammy Award-winning Youth ( The Verve, Pink Floyd) at El Mirador Studios in Andalucia, Spain, before being completed by leading mixer Cenzo Townshend ( Florence + The Machine, Inhaler). On 12 October 2019, Shed Seven played a short pre-match set prior to the 2019 Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford, Manchester. [22] In September 1994, the band released their debut album, Change Giver, entering the UK album chart at number 16 [2] and giving the group their first Gold disc. [5] Despite it spending just two weeks in the chart, the "critically underrated debut album", [10] which NME declared "an attempted stab in the face of their critics", [10] gave the band three UK Top 40 singles. [2] As well as enjoying popularity in both the UK and Australia, Shed Seven also found an audience in Thailand, where they managed to beat Take That to the Christmas number 1 spot with their fourth single release, " Ocean Pie". The following April, "Where Have You Been Tonight?", the first record to emerge from the band's collaboration with their new producer, Chris Sheldon, [5] was issued as their fifth single, peaking at number 23 [5] and continuing the band's chart-placing run. Although the single was "rush released" [11] with the intention of it being followed by a swiftly recorded second album, [11] the band failed to capitalize on the song's success as it became Shed Seven's one and only release throughout 1995.