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Jordan Delap

Jordan Delap is a singer-songwriter from Jersey Channel Island, now based in Basingstoke, England. When playing live he will most likely be playing acoustic guitar and singing. One way to describe his music is acoustic folk punk with ska/reggae influences.
He started off writing songs for the band Clockwork Sodomy and in 2009 started playing acoustic guitar by himself and busking to earn a bit of cash, this developed into him writing acoustic songs and playing them regularly at local gigs. He still busks and is always looking for gigs to play at.

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Camper Van Beethoven

Camper Van Beethoven is an alternative rock band that was founded in 1983 in Redlands, California, though the band soon moved to Santa Cruz, California. Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk, country, and acid rock into an eclectic, catchy and sometimes mysterious ensemble, years before the so-called alternative rock moniker came to mainstream attention. The group's trademark violin-coated melodies and their ironic take on American culture put them one step away from being a novelty act in the eyes of many critics.

Read more about Camper Van Beethoven on Last.fm.

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Ash Victim

Ash Victim is a singer-songwriter who plays stripped down acoustic folk-punk consisting mainly of vocals and acoustic guitar with a strong DIY ethic. He started out busking in the streets of Jersey (channel Island) playing a mixture of covers and originals. In August 2011 he moved to Basingstoke, England, where he continued to busk, began putting more effort into his original music and playing as many shows as possible.

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Swingin' Utters

Swingin' Utters is an American punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s. Having begun in Santa Cruz, California, the band moved to San Francisco where they are now based. They have been signed to Fat Wreck Chords since 1996. As well as being classed as a "punk revival" band (reminiscent of British 1970s bands such as Stiff Little Fingers, The Damned, Sham 69 and Eddie & The Hot Rods), Swingin' Utters have increasingly shown themselves to be influenced by Irish folk, particularly The Pogues.

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Mutiny

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Mutiny is a band formed by Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey after he left Funkadelic when George Clinton's mothership splintered at the end of the 1970s.Jerome Brailey and Glen Goins were working on the concept of Mutiny when Glen's untimely death occured in 1978. Jerome Brailey continue on with the vision and formed the group Mutiny, which performed in a style which is similar to the classic P-Funk style with a lot of emphasis place on the dual lead guitar work.

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The Sidekicks

There are more bands under the name The Sidekicks. 1) The Sidekicks are a band from Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently signed to Red Scare. 2) The Sidekicks were a 1960s garage rock band signed to RCA Victor Records. They released several singles and a lone album for RCA. 3) The Sidekicks are an unsigned band from the Netherlands. The members combine sixties bluesrock with eighties post punk.

Read more about The Sidekicks on Last.fm.

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The Men They Couldn't Hang

The Men They Couldn't Hang (TMTCH) are a British rock band whose mixture of folk and punk is not dissimilar to that of The Pogues (in fact founder member Shanne Bradley was a member of Shane MacGowan's first band The Nipple Erectors), although they have not enjoyed the same commercial or critical success as MacGowan's group. The original group consisted of Stefan Cush (Vocals, Guitar), Paul Simmonds (Guitar, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Keyboards), Philip (Swill) Odgers (Vocals, Guitar, Tin Whistle, Melodica), Jon Odgers (Drums, Percussion) and Shanne Bradley (Bass, Flute).

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Pipes and Pints

Pipes and Pints (cz/usa) - Punkrock with Highland Bagpipes Pipes And Pints were formed in 2006 by Vojta Kalina (Highland Bagpipes/Vocals) with a dream of a band that combines punk rock with dirty folk music such as The Pogues. Soon after, he met Tomas Novotny (Guitar/Vocals, ex-Who ate my Skate) who shared the same dream, flavored by country and rock and roll. The band released a demo and toured Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Czech Rep., Slovakia) both as a headlining band and in support of The Porters, Society Parasites, and others throughout 2007 and 2008.

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