Artist · chart history
Cinerama
Band Leeds United Kingdom Active 1998–2004
Cinerama formed in 1998 in Leeds, United Kingdom and was active until 2004. Cinerama has 13 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1998–2004. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Don't Touch That Dial”, which appears on 1 list and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Cinerama most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Cinerama was David Gedge's side door out of the Wedding Present. The Leeds singer started it in 1998 as a duo with Sally Murrell, and the early records sounded nothing like the band he fronted: lush, soundtrack-style arrangements with strings and woodwind swirling around the guitars, Gedge crooning in the middle and Murrell's keyboards and second lead voice adding a cool, cinematic sheen. Onstage they needed a small army of players to rebuild all that orchestral finery.
Va Va Voom arrived in 1998 with "Kerry Kerry", "Pacific" and "King's Cross" followed in 1999, and Disco Volante in 2000 brought "Your Charms", "Wow" and "Superman". Bit by bit, though, the guitars pushed back to the front, and Wedding Present songs began creeping into the live set. Torino, in 2002, carried "Quick, Before It Melts", "Health & Efficiency", "Careless" and "Cat Girl Tights", and over the years the lineup took in Simon Cleave on guitar, Terry de Castro on bass and drummers Kari Paavola and Simon Pearson.
"Don't Touch That Dial" and "It's Not You, It's Me" came near the end. While making the album that became Take Fountain, Gedge decided the sound had shifted so far that it belonged under the Wedding Present name, and Cinerama stood down in 2004. It never quite vanished: its songs kept turning up in Wedding Present sets, and the band still resurfaces for short sets at David Gedge's own festivals, with the players swapping their usual instruments.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cinerama on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Touch That Dial | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2003 | |
| 2 | Quick, Before It Melts | 1 | #2 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Health & Efficiency | 1 | #3 | – | 2001 | |
| 4 | Careless | 1 | #13 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | Pacific | 1 | #13 | – | 1999 | |
| 6 | It's Not You, It's Me | 1 | #14 | – | 2004 | |
| 7 | Kerry Kerry | 1 | #15 | – | 1998 | |
| 8 | Your Charms | 1 | #16 | – | 2000 | |
| 9 | Wow | 1 | #17 | – | 2000 | |
| 10 | King's Cross | 1 | #18 | – | 1999 | |
| 11 | Superman | 1 | #34 | – | 2001 | |
| 12 | Cat Girl Tights | 1 | #39 | – | 2002 | |
| 13 | Manhattan | 1 | #41 | – | 2000 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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