“Captain Dangerous are an explosive four piece art pop band from Nottingham with a frothy melange of quirk-pop influences. Listen and you'll hear Pavement, The Cure and The Violent Femmes. Plenty of Jonathan Richmond style grindings and a pop harmonic approach recalling early Teenage Fanclub and The Wedding Present are to be found via Jarvis for loucheness and fantastic songs.”
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The Recovery(1): British Post-Rock/Pop
The Recovery(2): Brooklyn Indie Rock (1) Originally a three piece, The Recovery acquired a fourth member around 18 months ago. They have supported bands such as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Raveonettes, Silversun Pickups, Cooper Temple Clause, Young Knives, The Longcut and many others. They featured on last years Jim Beam Music Tour with Little Man Tate, The Motorettes and The Upper Room and are on the Fred Perry endorsed Subculture music site as one of the bands to watch this year.
Andy Hirst and Alexander Christopher Hale met when Andy sent Alex an angry e-mail about poor customer service (to which Alex responded with impeccable customer service). Since that day they have maintained a friendship built on anger and varying degrees of customer service. Also Simpsons quotes. Now they are a band.
Strings of Seville deliver pile-driving alternative rock with waves of warm fuzzy guitars and added art-rock shapes. Yes, they are delightfully noisy, but they always stay on the right side of melodic and distil the essence of what makes a song great, which stops them from ever vanishing up their own proverbial - often the downfall of so many bands of this ilk. The obvious My Bloody Valentine references are there in the wall-o-sound guitars, but their more direct approach recalls the thick slabs of sonic power of Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins.
Huw Costin is a British singer-songwriter known for his emotional vocal style, melancholic lyrics, and a penchant for writing nifty pop songs when the mood takes him. Perhaps he is best known for his output with the now defunct Earth the Californian Love Dream, performing alongside Richard Warren (aka Echoboy) in the Cold Light Of Day, and adding his vocals and lyrics to early sides by Smith & Mudd.
Formed in 2008, Cult of Dom Keller are four psychedelic generals from England Uk who's kaleidoscopic sonic tapestries weave a mind expanding blend of experimentation, lysergic freak outs and space blues bastardisations that pull the listener into their dark psychedelic world.
The band began playing alongside the likes of The Warlocks, Spectrum, Asteroid no.4 and earlier this year EP1 became the debut release from the band, self recorded, self produced.
"Well crafted flowing melodic songs, a must for fans of Missy Higgins, Tracy Chapman, KT Tunstall, Kristin Hersh, Jose Gonzalez" 'Influx 2010'
WELCOME TO THE IDOLINS.
(pronounced EYEDOLLINS) Karen Smalley-Turner and Claudine West met while playing acoustic music at an 'open mic night' in Nottingham,. Then life, death and fate, took its course.. The creation of acoustic, folk, pop Band. The Idolins. Karen the principle songwriter, vocalist and guitarist. Claudine a multi-instrumentalist. In 2010 Guitarist vocalist Nick Scott became the 3rd official member.
1. HOOF, an English Alternative/Rock band from Nottingham, England, was formed in 1996. The band members are Wayne Banks (bass, vocals), Jason Banks (guitar, vocals) and Ploff (drums). The band is known for their musicianship and improvisational style. Their musical style involves a wide range of different influences. Hoof includes humor in their music but also make pointed political statements. The band are a true co-operative with no primary songwriter.
The A Band are a British improvised music collective formed in Nottingham, UK in the late 1980s. In 2005, The Wire magazine stated that "the importance of The A-Band to the UK rock underground is commensurate with the explosive impact that groups like AMM, SME or The People Band had on the free jazz and Improv set. An ever-fluctuating group of artists, dole boys, punk conceptualists and record collectors, they were the first UK ensemble to anchor a free drone music in the muscle and scorch of the most high-energy rock, while keeping it as untutored as the most elemental folk."