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Psychonauts

Three bands with the name Psychonauts exist : 1) DJ band formed by Paul Mogg and Pablo Clements. 2) Psytrance duo from Greece. 3) Psychobilly band from Switzerland. 1)The Psychonauts are Paul Mogg and Pablo Clements. Two school friends from Yeovil in Somerset. They became friends through a shared love of hip hop and disco. They started a club night known as the Night Of Cookers and mixed up hip hop, house and techno.

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Goldblade

Led by music journalist and ex-Membranes frontman John Robb, Goldblade are a punk band that incorporate ska, rockabilly and other different musical style into their music.
They have toured the world always tearing it up live with their live show that's been dubbed 'the greatest live show in the world' for its high octane sweaty high energy anthemic punk rock assault. Goldblade John Robb - Vocals/Guitar (JR)
Keith Curtis - Bass/Vocals (KC)
Johny Skullknuckles - Guitar/Vocals (JSK)
Rob Haynes - Drums/Vocals (RH)

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Restless

1) Restless was formed in 1978 by Mark Harman (g/v), Paul Harman (b) and Ben Cooper (d). The band name was borrowed from a Carl Perkins song. In 1981 "The Restless" EP was issued-limited to 400 copies. Once 'Why Don't You Just Rock!' was out, the boys were pretty much doing the regular Rock 'n' Roll circuit throughout England. Restless played their own style of Rock 'n' Roll and are arguably one of the most influential British Neo-Rockabilly bands. One time they played a 50´s Rockabilly standard just to follow with a pure Psychobilly song.

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Union Avenue

Union Avenue is a band from Scotland. They have been on the scene for over ten years, recorded two albums in the style of Johnny Cash, but with a twist.
Their version of Ace Of Spades become a song of the week on Radio 1, and the band gained a huge popularity. Many radio listeners were calling to the radio and were asking on which Johnny Cash album this song was released.
For tour dates and more informations please go to their MySpace account www.myspace.com/unionavenue

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Roman Holliday

Roman Holliday was a 1980s British band, whose style of music was a mixture of swing and pop. They are best known in the UK for their hit single, "Don't Try To Stop It", which reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart in the summer of 1983. A follow-up, "Motormania," peaked at number 40. Career The band started in 1980, composed of Bonhomme, Lambert, Cohen and Noone - who left the band shortly thereafter. In 1984 both brass men, Rob Lambert and John Eacott also left the band.

Read more about Roman Holliday on Last.fm.

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HOLA GHOST

After his last US-tour with Danish psychobilly band NEKROMANTIX in 2004 guitar player Peter Sandorff was hanging out in Los Angeles having beers with his friend, graphic artist GRIS GRIMLY. They decided that Gris should make a movie about cannibals and Peter should write the music. Peter immediately called his old friend Jeppe B. Jessen who also used to be the bass player in their postrock band SCHWARZWALD LIBRARY in the 90's.

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The BossHoss

The BossHoss are seven people from Berlin, Germany.
Boss, Hoss, Frank, Hank, Guss, Russ and Ernesto specialise in covering pop, rock and hip hop songs in country style. The band was founded in Berlin 2004 by Boss and Hoss, named after the well known song "Boss Hoss" by The Sonics. With their cover version of "Like Ice in the Sunshine" they became famous with the Langnese (the famous "heart-brand" ice cream) TV and cinema advertisements in 2005.

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Perkele

There are 2 artists under this name;
1.Perkele started in late 1993. by four guys, Ron vocals and guitar, Jonsson drums, Olof Bass and Anders Guitar. Perkele recorded the first demo tape ”Nu får det vara nog” in the beginning of 94 and next one ”Det växande hatet” in late 94, the band did so many gigs that they became a well known punk band in their hometown, the sound was back in the days very fast punk with Swedish folk music influences a sound that you still can hear even today. After a while Anders got tired of playing music and left the band and Perkele became a three member band.

Read more about Perkele on Last.fm.

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