Ray Phillips (born Raymond Anthony Phillips, 1 March 1949, Ely, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales) was the original drummer for the Welsh rock band Budgie. He left the band in 1974.
Phillips formed his own band in the mid 1970s known as Ray Phillips Woman. They pursued a touring schedule, and when the former Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge joined the band in the early 1980s, they became known as simply Woman. In 1982 he rejoined with Bourge and formed Tredegar.
In the 1990s, Phillips founded another band, Six Ton Budgie, alongside his son Justin Phillips on guitar and Tom Prince on bass. Phillips, alongside playing drums, also took over on lead vocals. The band toured the UK extensively for the next few years.
In 2008, he was working on a solo album. In May 2011, his solo album Judgement Day was released.
Ray Phillips is a recurring character in the television series Noh Matta Wat! He is played by Melton Morrison. He made appearances in seasons 1, 2 and 3. Unanimously referred as a drug dealer in the local press, Phillips meets his end in season 3, the result of a planned hit.
Appearance
Phillips is dark and tall, with a suspicious air and a perpetual scowl on his face. He behaves like a thug, even ordering around his underlings Juni and Luga. His avowed enemy is the Sawyers gang led by one Samuel Sawyers, whose death he ordered.
Activities and death
Generally, Phillips was a mysterious scoundrel in seasons 1, 2 and 3, directing the movements of Juni and Luga. All three were caught in the interval between seasons 1 and 2 thanks to Randy's testimony. They were reported escaped in season 2 and turned up in season 3 trying to dodge the Sawyer gang's paid hit men. Phillips in particular was anxious to get out of town. But they did not get far, as Phillips was killed early in the third season from a gunshot to the head, with Juni and Luga barely getting away.
Raymond Berry Phillips (born 23 May 1954) was an Australian cricketer who was born and raised in New South Wales and originally represented that state, but moved to Queensland in 1979 and played for that state for many years. He was selected for the 1985 Ashes squad but did not appear in any of the Test matches on the tour.
Phillips made his club debut in 1971 aged 15. He toured Sri Lanka in 1971 with the Australian Schoolboys and played for NSW Colts for three years. His first job after school was working for Bert Oldfield. Phillips played three games for NSW but Steve Rixon was blocking his path so he moved to Queensland in 1979.
Phillips scored his debut first class century in 1981-82.
After Marsh retired in 1984, Phillips was considered a candidate for the keeping position. However the selectors preferred Roger Woolley, who had a better batting record. When Woolley was injured the selectors went for Wayne Phillips and Steve Rixon. When Phillips was dropped as keeper in 1986, the selectors went for Tim Zoehrer. Ray Phillips retired in late 1986.
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Ray Phillips – Redneck Riviera
Redneck Riviera by original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips.
From his 15-track solo CD 'Judgement Day 2011'.
The 'Judgement Day 2011' CD can be ordered here:
https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/ray-phillips-cds.html
"I’m very passionate about the state of the world," Ray says. "I hate greed and corruption. We live in an absolutely desperate, terrible situation on this planet. It’s not a desperate, terrible world, but it’s a desperate, terrible situation – with all the wealth going to the most privileged, elite people, who control most of everything. When I recorded Judgement Day, things weren’t so bad – it was 2009 when I started that album. Now things seem to be escalating out of control. When I was sorting out the cover, I was thinking of a film I’d seen with a bad guy in it. When it ...
published: 07 Feb 2019
Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' new book (promo #2)
Original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' autobiography, The Ray Phillips Story: An Awful Biography of a Great Life - From Budgie to Tredegar and Beyond, is available for order from 23 April 2018.
The 496-page book has 118,000 words and over 600 images.
Ray will personally sign each book.
The first 150 copies come with a 12-track sampler CD of Ray's work with Ray Phillips Woman, Titus Oats, Tredegar, Six Ton Budgie and solo, including four previously unreleased songs.
The book can be ordered at https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/book-store.html
Audio: Tredegar - 'Battle of Bosworth'
Redneck Riviera by original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips.
From his 15-track solo CD 'Judgement Day 2011'.
The 'Judgement Day 2011' CD can be ordered here:
http...
Redneck Riviera by original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips.
From his 15-track solo CD 'Judgement Day 2011'.
The 'Judgement Day 2011' CD can be ordered here:
https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/ray-phillips-cds.html
"I’m very passionate about the state of the world," Ray says. "I hate greed and corruption. We live in an absolutely desperate, terrible situation on this planet. It’s not a desperate, terrible world, but it’s a desperate, terrible situation – with all the wealth going to the most privileged, elite people, who control most of everything. When I recorded Judgement Day, things weren’t so bad – it was 2009 when I started that album. Now things seem to be escalating out of control. When I was sorting out the cover, I was thinking of a film I’d seen with a bad guy in it. When it got the end of the film, I realised that the good guy was actually the bad guy, and the bad guy was the good guy. When I came up with the idea for the pictures to go on the album, I thought I wanted to look like the bad guy – so I picked that sinister-looking image. I thought, when people listen to the lyrics on these songs, it won’t be like listening to a bad guy, but listening to a guy with some good things to say.
"One day, I took Carol to the hospital for an operation. She’d gone in and I sat out in the car park. It was a lovely sunny morning – it was about 9 o’clock. I sat there in the car playing my guitar and I came up with the riff for Redneck Riviera. I toyed round with that riff for a long time. There was a guy with a website called Redneck Riviera. I imagined Steve Tyler from Aerosmith singing about himself, wearing sunglasses on the beach on the French Riviera and thinking he’s God’s gift to women.
"I needed a punch-line and after I’d done the main singing, I thought ‘Redneck Riviera’ would fit really well. After recording the punch-line, I thought to myself, 'If I sing a really low bass vocal to the words ‘Redneck Riviera’ it would sound great.' It took me a couple of days to put it together. I stood there and just kept singing as low as I could. I had to stand right in front of the microphone. It was such a good mic that I couldn’t afford to take any deep breaths in between lines. I had to stand there… get the first line down, then the second line and so on.
"I did the lead playing on the track. It was dead easy… it’s not complicated stuff, but it fits in well with the song. Then I got a guitarist in to add some more lead playing, because I felt it needed it. With hindsight, I don’t think it did."
Redneck Riviera by original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips.
From his 15-track solo CD 'Judgement Day 2011'.
The 'Judgement Day 2011' CD can be ordered here:
https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/ray-phillips-cds.html
"I’m very passionate about the state of the world," Ray says. "I hate greed and corruption. We live in an absolutely desperate, terrible situation on this planet. It’s not a desperate, terrible world, but it’s a desperate, terrible situation – with all the wealth going to the most privileged, elite people, who control most of everything. When I recorded Judgement Day, things weren’t so bad – it was 2009 when I started that album. Now things seem to be escalating out of control. When I was sorting out the cover, I was thinking of a film I’d seen with a bad guy in it. When it got the end of the film, I realised that the good guy was actually the bad guy, and the bad guy was the good guy. When I came up with the idea for the pictures to go on the album, I thought I wanted to look like the bad guy – so I picked that sinister-looking image. I thought, when people listen to the lyrics on these songs, it won’t be like listening to a bad guy, but listening to a guy with some good things to say.
"One day, I took Carol to the hospital for an operation. She’d gone in and I sat out in the car park. It was a lovely sunny morning – it was about 9 o’clock. I sat there in the car playing my guitar and I came up with the riff for Redneck Riviera. I toyed round with that riff for a long time. There was a guy with a website called Redneck Riviera. I imagined Steve Tyler from Aerosmith singing about himself, wearing sunglasses on the beach on the French Riviera and thinking he’s God’s gift to women.
"I needed a punch-line and after I’d done the main singing, I thought ‘Redneck Riviera’ would fit really well. After recording the punch-line, I thought to myself, 'If I sing a really low bass vocal to the words ‘Redneck Riviera’ it would sound great.' It took me a couple of days to put it together. I stood there and just kept singing as low as I could. I had to stand right in front of the microphone. It was such a good mic that I couldn’t afford to take any deep breaths in between lines. I had to stand there… get the first line down, then the second line and so on.
"I did the lead playing on the track. It was dead easy… it’s not complicated stuff, but it fits in well with the song. Then I got a guitarist in to add some more lead playing, because I felt it needed it. With hindsight, I don’t think it did."
Original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' autobiography, The Ray Phillips Story: An Awful Biography of a Great Life - From Budgie to Tredegar and Beyond, is availab...
Original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' autobiography, The Ray Phillips Story: An Awful Biography of a Great Life - From Budgie to Tredegar and Beyond, is available for order from 23 April 2018.
The 496-page book has 118,000 words and over 600 images.
Ray will personally sign each book.
The first 150 copies come with a 12-track sampler CD of Ray's work with Ray Phillips Woman, Titus Oats, Tredegar, Six Ton Budgie and solo, including four previously unreleased songs.
The book can be ordered at https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/book-store.html
Audio: Tredegar - 'Battle of Bosworth'
Original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' autobiography, The Ray Phillips Story: An Awful Biography of a Great Life - From Budgie to Tredegar and Beyond, is available for order from 23 April 2018.
The 496-page book has 118,000 words and over 600 images.
Ray will personally sign each book.
The first 150 copies come with a 12-track sampler CD of Ray's work with Ray Phillips Woman, Titus Oats, Tredegar, Six Ton Budgie and solo, including four previously unreleased songs.
The book can be ordered at https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/book-store.html
Audio: Tredegar - 'Battle of Bosworth'
Redneck Riviera by original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips.
From his 15-track solo CD 'Judgement Day 2011'.
The 'Judgement Day 2011' CD can be ordered here:
https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/ray-phillips-cds.html
"I’m very passionate about the state of the world," Ray says. "I hate greed and corruption. We live in an absolutely desperate, terrible situation on this planet. It’s not a desperate, terrible world, but it’s a desperate, terrible situation – with all the wealth going to the most privileged, elite people, who control most of everything. When I recorded Judgement Day, things weren’t so bad – it was 2009 when I started that album. Now things seem to be escalating out of control. When I was sorting out the cover, I was thinking of a film I’d seen with a bad guy in it. When it got the end of the film, I realised that the good guy was actually the bad guy, and the bad guy was the good guy. When I came up with the idea for the pictures to go on the album, I thought I wanted to look like the bad guy – so I picked that sinister-looking image. I thought, when people listen to the lyrics on these songs, it won’t be like listening to a bad guy, but listening to a guy with some good things to say.
"One day, I took Carol to the hospital for an operation. She’d gone in and I sat out in the car park. It was a lovely sunny morning – it was about 9 o’clock. I sat there in the car playing my guitar and I came up with the riff for Redneck Riviera. I toyed round with that riff for a long time. There was a guy with a website called Redneck Riviera. I imagined Steve Tyler from Aerosmith singing about himself, wearing sunglasses on the beach on the French Riviera and thinking he’s God’s gift to women.
"I needed a punch-line and after I’d done the main singing, I thought ‘Redneck Riviera’ would fit really well. After recording the punch-line, I thought to myself, 'If I sing a really low bass vocal to the words ‘Redneck Riviera’ it would sound great.' It took me a couple of days to put it together. I stood there and just kept singing as low as I could. I had to stand right in front of the microphone. It was such a good mic that I couldn’t afford to take any deep breaths in between lines. I had to stand there… get the first line down, then the second line and so on.
"I did the lead playing on the track. It was dead easy… it’s not complicated stuff, but it fits in well with the song. Then I got a guitarist in to add some more lead playing, because I felt it needed it. With hindsight, I don’t think it did."
Original Budgie drummer Ray Phillips' autobiography, The Ray Phillips Story: An Awful Biography of a Great Life - From Budgie to Tredegar and Beyond, is available for order from 23 April 2018.
The 496-page book has 118,000 words and over 600 images.
Ray will personally sign each book.
The first 150 copies come with a 12-track sampler CD of Ray's work with Ray Phillips Woman, Titus Oats, Tredegar, Six Ton Budgie and solo, including four previously unreleased songs.
The book can be ordered at https://budgieinpeckingorder.weebly.com/book-store.html
Audio: Tredegar - 'Battle of Bosworth'
Ray Phillips (born Raymond Anthony Phillips, 1 March 1949, Ely, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales) was the original drummer for the Welsh rock band Budgie. He left the band in 1974.
Phillips formed his own band in the mid 1970s known as Ray Phillips Woman. They pursued a touring schedule, and when the former Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge joined the band in the early 1980s, they became known as simply Woman. In 1982 he rejoined with Bourge and formed Tredegar.
In the 1990s, Phillips founded another band, Six Ton Budgie, alongside his son Justin Phillips on guitar and Tom Prince on bass. Phillips, alongside playing drums, also took over on lead vocals. The band toured the UK extensively for the next few years.
In 2008, he was working on a solo album. In May 2011, his solo album Judgement Day was released.