Blues musician Dan Melchior was born in England, but he is currently living in Durham, NC. He has collaborated with Holly Golightly and Billy Childish, but most of his recordings are made with his band Broke Revue, Das Menace or solo.
South London Bass ambassador Neil Keating aka DJ Controlled Weirdness has been rocking the decks and rinsing the rough beats for a few years now. As a young kid the Streetsounds Electro series and early eighties pirate radio stations like LWR started his obsession with nasty electronic music, breakbeats and hard edged funk. Saturday afternoons were spent in Groove records in Soho buying obscure Electro Imports that now go for high sums on Ebay and attending Spats in Oxford street, a Saturday afternoon club where Tim Westwood would play all the new electro/hip hop coming out of the States.
There are two artists who go by the name Doctor. (1) A London-based grime/UK hip-hop MC, part of the South Agents crew. (2) Canadian rock band with vocalist Danny Greaves (The Watchmen) and Rob Higgins (Change of Heart, The Royals) on bass. The duo met while Higgins was subbing in for several of The Watchmen's shows. Their album High Is As High Gets, featuring the single What Makes You Think He's Lucky was released in 2004. Currently, the band appear to be on hiatus.
Plastiscines are a female rock band from Saint-Cyr-l'École, France. Katty Besnard, Marine Neuilly and Zazie Tavitian met each other in Mansart High School where they bonded over their love of rock 'n' roll music. After they went to see several gigs together, they decided to form a band. In 2004, they met Louise Basilien at a Libertines gig, and she then became the bassist. Et voila, the band was complete : Katty (singer & guitar), Marine (guitar), Louise (bass) and Zazie (drums).
FIRE: A new Fire CD was released on Angel Air Records in October 2008, entitled "THE MAGIC SHOEMAKER LIVE!". The album includes blistering versions of "FATHER'S NAME IS DAD" and "TREACLE TOFFEE WORLD". Visit www.myspace.com/2007fire for more information. Such is the interest in Fire that the original "Magic Shoemaker" album is to be released in early/mid 2009 on Esoteric Recordings. Not many psychedelic bands emerged from Hounslow.
"Absolutely of the moment gear from Kashii. All the house and garage influences that will draw comparisons with Floating Points, Joy Orbison and the like. We are very pleased to have been given "Tru Da City" upfront by Southern Fried." - Bleep
One man band DM Bob collaborated with banjoist Country Jem on the 2005 album 'Bum Steer'.
There are several bands with this name. The UK group The Smoke consisted of Mick Rowley on vocals, Mal Luker on guitar, Zeke Lund on bass and Geoff Gill on drums. They released a handful of singles from 1967 - 1970, with their biggest hit 'My Friend Jack' reaching no. 2 in Germany and no. 45 in the UK. See The Smoke (UK). However the singles 'Sweet Spanish' and 'Defeat Retreat' are by the Australian band The Smoke, taken from the 2009 album 'Blood Orange'. See: The Smoke (Oz)