{"name":"Echo & The Bunnymen","title":"Echo & The Bunnymen","id":3127,"slug":"echo-the-bunnymen","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/3127/?format=json","bio_short":"Echo &amp; the Bunnymen are a British <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/tag/post-punk\" class=\"bbcode_tag\" rel=\"tag\">post-punk</a> band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Ian+McCulloch\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Ian McCulloch</a> (of <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/The+Crucial+Three\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">The Crucial Three</a>), <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Will+Sergeant\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Will Sergeant</a> and <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Les+Pattinson\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Les Pattinson</a>. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as &quot;Echo&quot;.  By the time of their debut album, 1980's <a title=\"Echo &amp; the Bunnymen - Crocodiles\" href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Echo+&amp;+the+Bunnymen/Crocodiles\" class=\"bbcode_album\">Crocodiles</a> - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Pete+de+Freitas\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Pete de Freitas</a>.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/EchotheBunnymen.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":23840,"title":"The Cutter","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/the-cutter/"},{"id":3083,"title":"The Killing Moon","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/the-killing-moon-2/"}]}