guitar pop

Essay Like Nephew is an ongoing project begun in Northamptonshire, UK in 2001 by George Maude, James Spinney, Tom Kaneko and Ben Brown. They are unsigned, but release recordings and films through their website, www.essaylikenephew.co.uk.

Matt Deighton rose to fame as guitarist and lead vocalist with Acid Jazz band Mother Earth in the early 1990s. More recently he has had a place in Paul Weller

Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British post-punk and northern soul band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word "Dexys" in this case, comes from a colloquialism of "dextroamphetamine" or "purple hearts," a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular "upper" drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.

There are several bands by the name of Sugar:
(1) Project of former Hüsker Dü member Bob Mould.
(2) is a Korean girl-pop group with releases in Japan and Korea
(3) is a Japanese visual-kei group (Ｓｕｇａｒ).
(4) is Australian psy-trance producer / artist Felix Hamer, on the Green Ant label from Melbourne, Australia.
(5) is a rockband from Den Bosch The Netherlands. Sugar (1) was formed by Bob Mould after the breakup of Hüsker Dü, and conceived as having a similar sound, though with Mould as the sole leader.