Massive Attack

Robin Hill

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Massive Attack

Massive Attack are...

• Robert Del Naja - vocals
• Grant Marshall - keyboards
• Andrew Vowles - keyboards (left 1999)

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Lily Allen

Singing and songwriting daughter of actor Keith Allen, Lily Allen hit the headlines in the summer of 2006 when her debut single, 'Smile', raced to number one. Her first long-player, Alright, Still, reached number two in the album chart.

Regularly outspoken and often amusing, Allen's remarks regarding celebrity culture and her alleged pop peers are always worthy of attentions.

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MGMT

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MGMT (also known as The Management) is an American musical group consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden.

For fans of: The Flaming Lips, Mates Of State, Russian Futurists.

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Mika

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Doves

• Jimi Goodwin - vocals, bass, guitar
• Jez Williams - guitar, keyboards
• Andy Williams - drums

Andy and Jez Williams met Jimi Goodwin when they were 15. They started playing together 10 years ago but, as Jimi notes, "We were wagging school and jamming way before that". As Sub Sub (graduates of a Hacienda-inspired Manchester clubland explosion of the late eighties) the band scored some dance inflected hits which kind of painted them into a corner. The number three single 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)' was released on New Order manager Rob Gretton's label. "We kind of lost our way for a few years", admits Jez.

The last recordings as Sub Sub, featuring guest vocalists Bernard Sumner from New Order and Tricky, and tracks like the expansive and decidedly un-disco 'Firesuite' all but demanded a name change mindful of a rockier and more experimental direction. And if 'Ain't No Love' was a right turn for the hell of it, then 1998's 'Cedar EP' saw them back on course - displaying intentions and influences they had carried with them most of their lives. Three EPs lovingly packaged and released on their own Casino label ('Cedar EP' October '98, 'Sea Song' May '99 and 'Here It Comes' October '99) garnered a raft of glowing reviews. Doves signed to Heavenly Recordings and consolidated with the eerie 'The Cedar Room' in March 2000.

Lost Souls, a debut LP released at the same time, was a genuine thing of beauty, wrought from hard bitten experience. Nobody could have planned for the attention it brought them. "Do we plan things? No!!" says Jimi. Since then they have toured and talked and toured some more. Unafraid of hard graft, they made time to record wherever and whenever. The Last Broacast (2002), a record which realises all expectations, is the unbelievably assured result. These are early days but, save a new LP from a miraculously resurrected Jimi Hendrix, we are talking about a record that clearly deserves early reservation in those end of year lists. "We hope people will hear more optimism in there than last time. We can only write about what happens and what has happened has been good so some of that is starting to shine through in the writing," says Andy.

Biography from Heavenly100 Website»

Underworld

Underworld are...

• Karl Hyde - vocals, guitar
• Rick Smith - keyboards
• Darren Emerson - keyboards, turntables

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Klaxons

Let's not say "new rave" or any of that bullcrap. Klaxons will make you covort spasmodically with impeccable dance basslines and rock credentials. Vital.»

Elbow

• Guy Garvey - vocals
• Mark Potter - guitar
• Craig Potter - keyboards
• Peter Turner - bass
• Richard Jupp - drums

Elbow met ten years ago at sixth-form college in Bury, a little north of Manchester. Outsiders in a run-down, narrow-minded town, they bonded over U2, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Red Hot Chili Peppers, eventually forming a band called Soft. For a while they played what Pete calls "chilled funk" and were, it's generally agreed, "shit". Relocating to Manchester itself - most of the band getting work at local underground venue The Roadhouse - they changed their name to Elbow ("the most sensuous word in the world," according to a nurse in Dennis Potter's television-series, The Singing Detective) and began to evolve a new sound, wherein driving organ, star-kissed guitars, Guy Garvey's fallen-angel vocals and tough grooves were merged into (sometimes eight-minute long!) songs. After a patient battle with the industry- they were inexplicably dropped by Universal in 1997, before being re-signed to indie label Uglyman- they released their debut album Asleep in the Back in 2001, which earned them a Mercury Prize nomination. Since then there has been 2002's Cast of Thousands and 2005's Leaders of the Free World, both seminal records which have sealed their reputation has the thinking man's Coldplay. They remain highly involved in Manchester's music scene, producing songs for I Am Kloot and (Brummie Manc wannabes) Editors.

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Kraftwerk

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Fleet Foxes

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Bat For Lashes

Bat For Lashes is Natasha Khan.

"...stupendous, haunting..."
Sunday Times

"Khan has a mystial magic that's distinctly her own."
The Observer

Bat For Lashes' debut single was released digitally through DiS Records (link) and on seven-inch through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. Now signed to Echo, her debut album Fur and Gold is released on 11 September. It features contributions from Josh T Pearson.

For fans of: Kate Bush, Björk, Low, dreams and stars and sunsets and faraway fantasy lands.

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Squarepusher

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The Future Sound of London

Future Sound Of London are...

• Gary Cobain - keyboards
• Brian Dougans - keyboards

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Soulwax

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Michael Nyman

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DJ Food

1990 - Coldcut - Ninja Tune > Jazz Breaks 1-5 > + PC + Paul Brook + Strictly Kev. 1995 - Recipe For Disaster - Stealth > Food = PC & Kev 1996 - Refried Food remixes of previous 6 LPs - Coldcut hand over. 2000 - Kaleidoscope. 2001 - Quadraplex + Now, Listen (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) PC joins Cinematic Orchestra. 2002 > Food = Kev solo plus guests, frequent collabs w. DK, 2004 - Raiding the 20th Century (1) + Head live performances. 2005 - Raiding the 20th Century (2) 2007 - Now Listen Again (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) Much, much more in between... »

65daysofstatic

65daysofstatic is currently Joe Fro, Paul Wolinski, Rob Jones and Simon Wright; Feedle, Iain Armstrong and Gareth Hughes are former members.

The band are primarily instrumental, using beats and glitches alongside crunched guitars and hardcore drums.

65days originally formed, allegedly, to try and write music to fit the unreleased and little known John Carpenter flick Stealth Bomber starring Kurt Russell. Set over "65 Days of Static", a period of time after some unknown global infrastructre and communications breakdown, it also gave 65 their name.

Apparently.

For more information visit www.65daysofstatic.com.
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Friendly Fries

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Friendly Fires are comprised of Ed Mac, Jack Savidge and Edd Gibson.

Formed out of the ashes of ‘First Day Back’, the St Albans hardcore band, they formed while still at school. Friendly Fires make razor-sharp post-punk that burns through the memories of all the dismal, skinny jeaned ‘80s revivalists you’ve been hearing these past few years. Sounding brittle, knotty and urgent, Friendly Fires are the real deal. With no fat or padding on them at all, their songs possess an elegant sparseness.

As guitarist Edd Gibson notes: “The hardest thing I think is to know what to leave out, to know when something is enough.” But amongst all the stripped-back twists, there are also moments full of deep, blessed-out melodies. “I love lush, massive, tingly chords; the My Bloody Valentine sound,” says bassist and singer Ed MacFarlane.

Biog from Last FM

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Just Jack

Electro-dance solo artist from North London - a little bit disco, a little bit Faithless.»

Vetiver

Something of a modern-day folk supergroup, with Andy Cabic at its core. Other musicians include Devendra Banhart (guitar), Alissa Anderson (cello, bass, Otto Hauser (drums) and Kevin Barker (guitar).»

The Horrors

The Horrors are Southend-spawned but London-based goth-y-punks: a little Eighties Matchbox, a little Cramps. You get the deal, aye.

They are known as:

FARIS BADWAN - VOCALS
TOMETHY FURSE - DANELECTRO LONGHORN BASS
JOSHUA VON GRIMM - FENDER JAGUAR
COFFIN JOE - BANGS THE DRUMS
SPIDER WEBB - VOX CONTINENTAL ORGAN

Those aren't names!

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Passion Pit

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Diplo

Remixer, masher-upper, raver and label owner of Mad Decent rekkids.

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Efterklang

Efterklang is:

Mads Brauer - electronics
Casper Clausen - vocals/multi-instrumentalist
Rune Molgaard - piano
Thomas Husmer - drums/bass
Rasmus Stolberg - guitar/multi-instrumentalist

Efterklang's music defies easy categorisation. It's two parts Sigur Ros, one part Björk and a dozen dashes of Radiohead; it's serene and shocking, orchestral and experimental. All bets are off, but it's always beautiful.

MySpace

Video: 'Mirador'

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Fujiya & Miyagi

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Little Boots

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Frightened Rabbit

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La Roux

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London Elektricity

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Freemasons

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The Field

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Florence and The Machine

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Dub Pistols

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Skream

Dubstep-type DJ and producer bloke Olli Jones.»

Metronomy

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Carl Cox

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Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors is the name Dave Longstreth chose after releasing his first album The Graceful Fallen Mango under his own name. Playing with Brian Mcomber (drums); Amber Coffman (singing, guitar) and Angel Deradoorian (singing, bass), he has released 4 albums The Glad Fact ( 2003 Western Vinyl ); slaves's graves of ballads ( 2003 Western Vinyl ); The Getty Address ( 2005 Western Vinyl )and Rise above ( 2007 dead oceans ) as well as an EP new attitude and an internet-only compilation of early works Morning Better Last!.

A creative artist, Dirty Projectors mixes classical orchestration with samples, electronic and strange vocals.

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The Bloody Beetroots

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2 Many DJ's

The Soulwax side project which is the king of the bootlegs!»

The Pretty Things

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Pole

Pole, known as Stefan Betke to his mum, has spent much of the late 90s mapping out minimalist, otherworldly, glitch-dub soundscapes. On a series of self-titled records that were alternately visionary, captivating and deathly dull, his music and influence eventually spread as far as a recent Levi’s ad and the new Radiohead album.»

Frankmusik

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Benga

Croydon dubstep producer.

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Plan B

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Seasick Steve

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The Acorn

The Acorn is the project of Rolf Klausener and his musical compatriots. Anchored by vivid songwriting and eclectic instrumentation, The Acorn produce a unique brand of experimental, popular folk music that effortlessly marries modern and traditional forms. To check them out click to MySpace

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Chase & Status

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Maps

Maps is a man called James. He writes and records at home on a 16-track. His influences include Low, My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Spiritualized, Brian Wilson, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

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The Beat

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Goldie Lookin' Chain

Shifting 600 tickets at a time and always selling out the place, GLC are Wales' supergroup with tha lingo of da 'Port but not many peeps from over the bridge have heard them yet. Ain't nothing else like them. They rap Welsh humour in local dialect and number something like 30 of them. Closest cousins are The Streets who they're supporting in London very soon. *DO* catch their website. You knows it!

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Gilles Peterson

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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

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Eat Static

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DJ Yoda

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Scuba

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Krafty Kuts

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Buraka Som Sistema

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The Qemists

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Tinchy Stryder

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Altern 8

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Jack Peñate

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James Yuill

Bittersweet English folk-pop»

Chris Coco

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Pivot

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Alessi's Ark

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Mr Hudson & The Library

Mr Hudson (vocals, occasional guitar)

Robin French (the bass guitar)

Wilkie Wilkinson (the electric drum)

Joy Joseph (steel-pan, vocals)

Torville Jones (the piano-forte)

Visit Mr Hudson & The Library to hear some tunes.

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Rusko

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Fight Like Apes

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Polly Scattergood

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Fake Blood

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Crazy Penis

Sometimes abbreviated/censored to Crazy P, Crazy Penis are a bunch of dance kids from Nottingham. They line-up as follows:

Daneille Moore - vocals
Chris Todd - guitar/keys
Jim Baron - keys/backing vocals
Tim Davies - bass/vocals
Mat Klose - drums

Of course, you can also use their name to make jokes like "I really like the penis" and "those penises the other night really hit the spot".

Classy.

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Caspa

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Laura Izibor

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Cagedbaby

The son of wholesome hippies, Tom Gandey was raised amidst boats and pianos. His two brothers now run their father's fishmonger business, but Tom decided to follow more in the footsteps of the distaff side. "All my mum's family are classical musicians and my grandfather was a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, he smiles. When I was young I thought I might combine both of the family passions and become a rockstar yachtsman. You know, like Simon le Bon."

A gifted pianist, Tom played piano at primary school, progressing when adolescence hit to stints in local bands. Dabbing with experiemental over-dubbings of film soundtracks and messing around with production soon followed, and the acid-house superhero meets New Romantic. Neil Tennant meets Fatboy Slim Cagedbaby sound began to take shape.

Snapped up by Southern Fried records after being scouted at a party, Cagedbaby released his first single shortly afterwards. His debut album, Cagedbaby Will See You Now, is out on 08/08/2005.»

The Subs

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Major Lazer

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Filthy Dukes

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Tom Middleton

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Coki

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Esser

Aka Ben Esser, formerly of Ladyfuzz»

Golden Silvers

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hockey

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Ohbijou

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DJ Friction

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Heartbreak

Italo/metal duo...

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Ali Renault - Keyboards
Sebastian Muravchix - Vocals

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Alix Perez

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Natty

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vv brown

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The Big Pink

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The Loose Cannons

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Delphic

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Wave Machines

• Carl Brown
• Tim Bruzon
• James Walsh
• Vidar Norheim

Wave Machines is an alternative pop group formed in Liverpool in 2007. Labelled 'toy shop pop' (NME) and likened to 'Hot Chip dipped in Hot Chocolate' (The Guardian), the band's debut album, Wave If You're Really There, is out on Neapolitan Records on June 15.

Bands Wave Machines have played with include: James Yuill, Lo-Fi-Fnk, I Am Kloot, and - at the Royal Albert Hall for the launch of single 'The Greatest Escape We Ever Made' - Micachu & The Shapes. Together with Liverpool art group Mercy, they've also been responsible for bringing We Have Band, Post War Years, Cats In Paris and Slow Club to the Liverpool music-loving audience.

Other notches on band's sonic bedpost include: SXSW 2009 with Mumford & Sons, and appearing at Tate Gallery and London Word Festival for a music / poetry mash-up with Mercy writer-in-residence Nathan Jones. They've also chalked up sessions with Jon Kennedy and John Hillcock on XFM, Marc Riley, Tom Robinson and Nemone on 6 Music, and Rob da Bank on R1."

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MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Official site

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Grum

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Sunny Day Sets Fire

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Kid Carpet

Whimsical underdog kid's toy craziness. Musical marmite. Lyrically fun - "Jobseeker: You're a world-beater!"

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Hudson Mohawke

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Chew Lips

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Boy 8-Bit

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Hijack

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It Hugs Back

• Matthew - vocals, guitar
• Paul - bass
• Dimitri - drums

With barely a handful of gigs under their young belts, It Hugs Back have received praise from all corners, including NME ("Kent could soon produce it's very own Bright Eyes") as well as eccstatic support from Xfm for their demos.

Their youthfulness is showcased through the beautifully naive music they perform. Hushed vocal melodies and jangling, Wilco-esque guitars combine to astonishing effect. Debut single 'Lights In The Trees' is due for release this Autumn.

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Tommy Sparks

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Man Like Me

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Plastician

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Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

The band members of Kitty, Daisy and Lewis are: Kitty, Daisy, Lewis, Graeme and Ingrid. It started out as just Kitty, Daisy and Lewis performing with various guitar players providing a rhythm. After a while, we felt that it most worked playing with our dad (Graeme) on acoustic guitar and then later our mum (Ingrid) on double bass. We played live instore at the Pure Groove record shop in Clerkenwell on Tuesday 29th July 2008 in support of our album which was their album of the week. Lewis and Kitty also showed the Pure Groove guys around our home studio and 78 collection. »

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Napoleon IIIrd

Napoleon IIIrd is a highly original musician from Leeds.

He makes a unique kind of leftfield pop from piles of antique organs and car-boot keyboards, gentle strummed chords and driving glitched beats. His live show also features a reel-to-reel tape player, sometimes through surround-sound speakers, and a strobing acoustic guitar. Following his first national tour with Applicants, Evenings, Bishi and The Open Mouths in late 2005, he has quickly gained a mighty live reputation. He has since played all sorts of support slots with bands such as Hot Chip, Clor, The Mystery Jets, Forward, Russia! and The Research.

Napoleon has released 2 ltd. edition EPs, the first on Leeds label Dance To The Radio, the second with London-based indie Brainlove Records. His brilliant Forward, Russia! remixes have gained him extensive radio play and an army of new admirers. His debut album, "In Debt To:", is available from iTunes or eMusic now, and on CD soon.

www.napoleoniiird.com
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Blindfold

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Sportsday Megaphone

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Tayo

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Foamo

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Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele

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Lemonade

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Lizzy Parks

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Baddies

Baddies, based in Southend, play party-tuned punk-rock with overtones of Futureheads quirk twists and An Emergency twitches.

The band is:

MICHAEL WEBSTER - vocals/guitar
SIMON BELLAMY - guitar/vocals
JIM WEBSTER - drum kit/vocals
DANNY ROWTON - bass/vocals

Find the band on MySpace

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Micachu and the Shapes

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Speech Debelle

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Derrick Carter

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Toddla T

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Blue Roses

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George Pringle

myspace.com/georgepringle

Oxford-based George Pringle began writing music when she was 16. She pinched her older brother’s guitar and taught herself bar chords. Her brother ditched the guitar to become a DJ. “I don’t see the point of making music when I’m not doing anything new and other people can do it so much better than me. I enjoy listening to them far more,” he said.

George began recording demos on a broken two-deck Karaoke machine at home during the school holidays. She also pinched French Oral examination tape recorders whilst at boarding school and recorded late at night in the school hall, using the assembly microphone. She played alone, and in bands, before abandoning guitar for Garage band music software, which she acquired at 21.

Her brother’s words stuck with her. When she was a teenager, he played her LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge”. It sounded fresh and knowing: “I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.” Tony Wilson’s music cycles swirled through her head in the backseat of a Fiat Punto, somewhere in the middle of the Italian countryside. She decided that the wa-wa-waah whinging over guitar was not going to create anything new, but she was: A few years later she started talking.

Now 22, George has become a “Diseuse” (a female performer of monologues). She makes electronic music on her iBook G4 (which she calls Truman) and recites poetry over the tracks. Her demos have been described as "just plain charming!" by Music Week.

George gigs Karaoke-style, with a view to someday incorporating projections of her photo journals into her live shows. She can be seen at several festivals and warm-up shows in the lead-up to her debut single later this summer.

"Shoegaze-pop, poetry and electronica" The Guardian

"Takes a blog-esque approach to lyricism and pulls it through a Death Cab-meets-Patti Smith-o-scope" NME

"It's quite clear that she is right up our street. Glitchy, slightly-haunting, extract-from-a-diary pop songs." Tim Chipping Channel 4

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The Mummers

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Dinosaur Pile Up

Dinosaur Pile-Up lives because... Matt Bigland plays guitar whilst singing, Tom Dornford-May plays bass guitar, and Steve Wilson plays drums... they ride in a 6 seater burning inferno that goes by the name of 'truck delorevan bigland' and travel at molten hyper-speeds. The name of the band was birthed when a young Matt watched King Kong... he subsequently wrote some kick ass songs, disappeared for a while, and returned with the mark of the mighty riff on the back of his arm - thereby marking the beginning of the almighty 'Pile-Up...

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2020 Soundsystem

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Skint & Demoralised

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Riva Starr

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The Cuban Brothers

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Justin Robertson

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The Argonauts

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The Ghost

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Ebony Bones

London oddity, likes bright colours and ESG.»

A1 Bassline

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Paloma Faith

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L-VIS 1990

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They Came From The Stars I Saw Them

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Drums Of Death

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Annie Mac

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Kinny

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Lee Mortimer

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Stardeath and White Dwarfs

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Goldie Locks

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Raffertie

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Fabio & Grooverider

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MC Rage

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The Hat

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Rob da Bank

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Bloco Electro

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Peggy sue

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Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

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Flying White Dots

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Annie Nightingale

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Benji B

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Joe Gideon And The Shark

Gideon plucks six strings, dreams stories and sings. Kid sister Viva Shark plonks, stomps and honks. They made two albums as Bikini Atoll released on Bella Union.

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The Duloks

• Mira Dulok - vocals
• Mina Dulok - organ
• Mar Dulok - drums

Girl-band The Duloks played their first gig less than six months ago at a fancy dress jocks and nerds themed party, their costumes stuck and the trio have been wearing shorts and knee socks ever since.

A repertoire of pure fun their songs include 'Bad Vegetarian' and 'Help! I'm Turning Into Mick Jagger!' all this over sexy synths and blistering drum beats.

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Lucky Elephant

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Casio Kids

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Rox

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A Skillz

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Monsters At Work

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Rachel Barton

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Skibunny

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Orkestra del Sol

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Outmode

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Bjorn Again

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The Dawn Chorus

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Beat Boutique

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BeardyMan

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Black Acid

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firas

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i!AMYOU

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Pete Gooding

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Fresh Legs

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Zane Lowe

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Free Peace

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Robert Luis

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Kasra

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Jaymo & Andy George

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Michael Cook

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The Shanklin Freak Show

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Dj Derek

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MC Wrec

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Luke Pritchard

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Takura

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Bastila

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sound of rum

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Goodbye Stereo

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The Hot Rats

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The Shutes

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Ross Allen

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Bobby Friction

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The Cordelier Club

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Dj Charge

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Paul Trouble Arnold

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Huw Stephens

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Fear of Theydon

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Krysko

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Jaguar Skillz

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a child rasputin

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Johnno

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Kry Wolf

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The Big Hairy Band

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XO-MAN

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Dj Coley

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Gaz's Rockin Blues

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Fake Bush

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Sombrero Sound System

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JC & Angelina

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Daisy Heartbreaker

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dublime

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the gramaphone

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The Correspondence

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The Adventurists

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