Matthew Strachan [1970] is a songwriter and composer who has written TV soundtracks, musicals and songs. He was born in London, UK and trained as a composer at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmith
Diego Brown and the Good Fairy is an eclectic duo with unusual vocals and clever lyrics, backed by kazoo, swanee whistle, accordion, melodica, bicycle wheel (!) and guitar. Serving up a deliciously weird musical stew, this award-winning duo take their audiences on a magic-realist tour of the forgotten corners of modern life in Britain, visiting spooky country, sly bossa nova and buzzsaw tango on the way.
Black Country Electro Rock band - for more information go to http://www.isolatedatoms.com or http://www.myspace.com/isolatedatoms Isolated Atoms formed in February 2008 in the Black Country, West Midlands. They play serious, mature and intelligent rock music with an exciting edge. They are being tipped by many to be the hottest and most professional undiscovered band in the UK. They have come a long way in a short space of time, having already confirmed a support slot with massive electro group Ladytron.
There is more than one group called the Tubes. 1) The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theater rock band, popular in the mid 1970s and early 1980s, known for their live performances that combined music performances with many different unique costumes and in some acts they wore leotards with painted on nipples and pubic hair (neither of which points are relevant for evaluating their artistic/musical/political relevance). They made satires of life in the USA; the media, consumerism, and politics. They were often banned in the Midwest USA.
A martial and apocalyptic atmosphere! The band brings us directly to the heart of things. Obsessional, never brutal, Rosa Crvx explore the questions of life and death, of the anguishes and the human's fears. They face the darkness; at the edge of the abyss, their steps progress on an unknown way which exists in the dark and opens to the light when we understand that the only solution is in the acceptance of mysteries. Rosa Crvx reached us down in the depths of the soul...
Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent, England, now part of Greater London) is an English singer and songwriter known for her expressive four-octave soprano voice, idiosyncratic and literary lyrics, and eclectic and meticulous musical and production style. She debuted in 1978 with the surprise hit "Wuthering Heights", which was number one in the British music charts for four weeks.