Martin Metcalfe
Martin Metcalfe is a Scottish singer and guitarist from Bathgate, Scotland. His career began in 1981 fronting the alternative rock band Goodbye Mr Mackenzie who released their debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags in April 1989. The album was a moderate commercial success in the United Kingdom and spawned the commercially successful singles "Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie", "Open Your Arms", "The Rattler" and "Face to Face". With their contract sold by Capitol Records to Radioactive and MCA, they released their second album Hammer and Tongs in 1991, supported by the singles "Love Child", "Blacker Than Black" and "Now We Are Married".
A third album, Five followed in 1994, which was recorded at the same time as the debut album from Goodbye Mr Mackenzie's side project Angelfish which featured Shirley Manson on lead vocals rather than Metcalfe. The song "Suffocate Me" by Angelfish was played on MTV's 120 Minutes which lead to Manson leaving both bands to join Garbage in 1994, with Angelfish disbanding in 1995. Goodbye Mr Mackenzie released their fourth and final album, The Glory Hole in 1996. Following the disbandment, Metcalfe formed The Filthy Tongues in 2005, and in 2019, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie reformed to tour Scotland and re–released their first two studio albums.
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