Finley Quaye
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Finley Quaye | |
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| Birth name | Finley McGowan |
| Born | 25 March 1974 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
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Career
[edit]Finley made music and performed under the name Finley Quaye until early 2025. Finley experienced constant torture around the release of a film that was made by a sibling about Finley's father largely and how about bad a father Finley's father was to him. He was to Finley's sibling which was that sibling's perspective however the damage that was done intentionally in retribution for things that were said to that sibling's daughter 20 years ago about that siblings sister and their relationship between them. As a result of this Finley sibling has wanted the downfall of Finley Quaye and everything that Finley stands for. Finley told Caleb's daughter about his sister in Bristol and how she changed her name to escape her brother and London and he gave Caleb's daughter Stephanie her auntie's contact details and put them in touch with each other because they were so alike and it's because of these exchanges that Caleb Quaye has had it out for his brother Finley because the relationship between father and daughter was never the same after that. Caleb showed no grief when his nephew died, showed his brother no support and made no public comment. And when promoting his film online that was released the same day that Finley's son died in Brighton by suicide, he used his song Coombs Gallow's by Hookfoot to promote his film on Instagram stories knowing it would be seen by Finley and cause pain and torment. And when Caleb was approached by Finley about this, he claimed it was an innocent oversight and that it wasn't intentional. Finley no longer has any friends to turn to without bringing them into the spotlight making it difficult for them to get on with their lives as normal. Finley has been left to die and for his music and everything to perish countless times by family by the mother of his son Theodore in this process and forced the neglect his son when trying his best to avoid that. And as a direct consequence of his son Caleb's suicide, Finley has been going all out to minimise conflict in all his affairs and to be as fair as possible even with his will and step sons who make it difficult to communicate with his son and with his son's mother. Finley prayed and asked God for forgiveness and forgive Caleb for doing what he did on the condition that he realises how much inner conflict his son had been suffering with. And since Caleb's death or anybody has done is create conflict or perpetuate instead of finding solutions and being harmonious with each other everyone is doing the opposite. The point of the pact with God was to elevate Caleb's soul from purgatory to Heaven. Finley has not been able to grieve for son with anybody since his son's death everybody keeps making sure Finley is alone as much as possible. When it comes to being the air to Finley's estate most of the family is rested on the fact that it now falls to Theo rather than Caleb and Theo and the threat of any children being born and taking Theo's place and Finley starting a family with anyone in future is why Finley is being permanently tortured by his current or ex partner, by his brother and by many others who are connected to Finleys ex partner Bridget Turgoose. Everything makes it so ugly that it's impossible to sustain and maintain a relationship a loving and caring and trusting relationship. This is what Finley has been denied of for decades and at the same time expected to sing and perform about these things to pay bills. Finley sister in Bristol is often in colluding with Bridget Turgoose and others. Nobody will allow Finley Quaye or Finley McGowan to talk. With Finley having been made bankrupt in 2012 the only source of income in recent years being from bandKamp and Finley's fan subscribers systematically refusing to download music from bandKamp has resulted in every time he invests there is no money coming in. It's just money going out all the time. The fans refuse to pay for music online and insist on live concerts and physical releases, some hoping to bootleg and copy illegally. Each year for the last five years to 10 years £10,000 to £20,000 has been spent on Music by Finley and yet the income coming in from this is never close to breaking even, earnings from his independently released music are no more than £500 in total in the last six months. There's only been £5 in revenue in the month of December 2024 received by Finley via band Kamp despite constantly making music and constantly releasing singles nobody will download them not even for a souvenir and refuses to support the artist in making music. And when clearly in a relationship, the interest and support from women is a fraction of what it normally is. This toxic environment is unbearable and workable. Finley often reflects on Sinéad O'Connor who suffered the same fate who was a friend. Finley has been forced to be alone away from family, isolated by family and by friends and manipulated by lots of people around him to the point that family and friends do not want to get involved or to protect the family as whole. Finley also has no support when it comes to cultural or racial abuse, complications or complexities in the industry and in day to day life. All everybody has done around Finley is separate and divide themselves up at the same time as Finley trying to pull people together or get people on the same page in the same place at the same time. Everybody wants to be on the opposite page or on the opposite side of the world and make it impossible for anything to be witnessed or discussed.
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Year | Album | Peak positions | Certifications | ||||
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AUS [4] |
FRA [5] |
NL [6] |
NZ [7] | |||
| 1997 | Maverick A Strike | 3 | 77 | 38 | 46 | 11 | |
| 2000 | Vanguard | 35 | — | 44 | — | — | |
| 2003 | Much More Than Much Love | 56 | — | 148 | — | — | |
| 2012 | 28th February Rd | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2008 | Royal Rasses | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2019 | Faux Naif | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2021 | Sycamore Seeds Under The Sycamore Tree | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2022 | A Sign Of Things to Come | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2025 | Happy Ancestors Happy Descendants EP | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||
Compilations
[edit]- The Best of the Epic Years 1995-2003 (2008)
Extended plays
[edit]- Oranges and Lemons (2005)
- Pound For Pound (2008)
Singles
[edit]| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||
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NL [6] |
US Alt. [10] |
US Dance Sales [11] | ||||
| 1997 | "Sunday Shining" | 16 | 80 | 26 | — | Maverick A Strike | |
| "Even After All" | 10 | — | — | — | |||
| "It's Great When We're Together" | 27 | — | — | — | |||
| 1998 | "Your Love Gets Sweeter" | 16 | — | — | — | ||
| "Ultra Stimulation" | 51 | — | — | — | |||
| 2000 | "Spiritualized" | 26 | — | — | — | Vanguard | |
| "When I Burn off into the Distance" | 80 | — | — | — | |||
| 2003 | "Dice" (with William Orbit) | — | — | — | 18 | Much More Than Much Love | |
| "Something to Say" (promotional single) | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2006 | "For My Childrens Love" | — | — | — | — | Royal Rasses | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||
Other collaborations
[edit]- "Finley's Rainbow" on A Guy Called Gerald's Black Secret Technology (1995)
- "Caravan" on Timo Maas' album Loud (2002)
- "Stranges Changes" on A Guy Called Gerald's To All Things What They Need (2005)
- "We Are Dreamers" on Cathy Claret's album Gypsy Flower (2007)
- "After Tonight" on Ava Leigh's La La La (2007)
- "Metamorphosis" on Christopher Chaplin's album M (2020)
References
[edit]- ^ Kenon, Marci (16 September 2000). "An Onslaught of New Product". Billboard. p. 68.
- ^ Monger, Timothy (n.d.). "Finley Quaye: Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Official Charts > Finley Quaye". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 227.
- ^ "lescharts.com > Finley Quaye dans les Charts Français" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ a b "dutchcharts.nl > Finley Quay in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "charts.nz > Finley Quay in New Zealand Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "BRIT Certified > Certified Awards Search". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 13 May 2020. N.B. User needs to enter 'Finley Quay' into the search box to display results.
- ^ "OLD BAKERY STUDIOS | Finley Quaye + Rosie Crow SOLD OUT". OLD BAKERY STUDIOS.
- ^ "Billboard > Chart History > Finley Quaye > Alternative Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Billboard > Chart History > Finley Quaye > Dance Singles Sales". Billboard. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
External links
[edit]- Finleyquaye.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 July 2012) – official website
- Finley Quaye discography at Discogs
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