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Civil Simian
Civil Simian
	Civil Simian current lineup from left: Ruari McCloskey, Martin Price, Sean McCann, Ben Fleming and Colm O'Flynn
Background information
Origin	Belfast, County Down, N. Ireland
Genres	Art rock; alternative rock; experimental rock;
Years active	2014–present
Label	Bright Green Octopus;
Members	Ruari McCloskey; Martin Price; Ben Fleming; Sean McCann; Colm O'Flynn;
Past members	Tim Stone; Sam Stone; Mike McKinney; Gary Keenan McClean;
Website	civilsimian.co.uk

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Civil Simian are a Northern Irish rock band from Belfast, County Down. The band consists of Ruari McCloskey (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Martin Price (lead guitar), Ben Fleming (synths, flute), Sean McCann (bass, backing vocals, percussion), and Colm O'Flynn (drums, percussion). Their debut EP Fables was released in 2014,^[1] followed in 2015 and 2016 by three precursor singles to their debut LP Ouroboric

History

2008-2014: Formation, Wave Speech and Urban Scarecrow

Ruari McCloskey and Martin Price met at Belfast bar Katy Daly's after having spoken on Northern Irish music forum Fastfude.^[2] They quickly rebranded Price's former musical enterprise Wave Speech^[3]

2014-2017: Civil Simian and Fables

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	IRL ^[4]
Ouroboric	Release Date: 2016 Label: Bright Green Octopus Formats: Download	-
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Fables - (2014) - Self-released

Singles

"Believe" - (2015) - Bright Green Octopus
"What Is This" - (2016) - Bright Green Octopus
"Brittle" - (2016) - Bright Green Octopus
"Draw The Prophet" - (2017) - Bright Green Octopus
"Bramble" - (2019) - Bright Green Octopus
"The Miner" - (2020) - Bright Green Octopus

References

↑ "Musicbrainz - Fables". Retrieved 03 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
↑ "Official Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016.
↑ "Wave Speech Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016. as Urban Scarecrow <ref name="USbc">"Urban Scarecrow Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016. and immediately began recording the Empty Skies EP. Fleming joined the band in July 2012 <ref name="USFleming">"Ben Fleming Joins". =19 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
↑ "Discography Le Galaxie". irish-charts.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

External links

Official Website

[musicbrainfable-1] "Musicbrainz - Fables". Retrieved 03 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[bandbio-2] "Official Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016.

[WSms-3] "Wave Speech Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016. as Urban Scarecrow <ref name="USbc">"Urban Scarecrow Website". Retrieved 18 August 2016. and immediately began recording the Empty Skies EP. Fleming joined the band in July 2012 <ref name="USFleming">"Ben Fleming Joins". =19 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[charts_irl-4] "Discography Le Galaxie". irish-charts.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

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