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The Pharaohs

There are three bands with this name: 1- A psychobilly/rockabilly band from the UK.
The Pharaohs were a british psychobilly band from Harlow in Essex. Their vocalist and second guitarist, Glenn Daeche, wrote most of their songs. They were regulars at the Klub Foot and other low-life places in the 80's. As one of the 'first generation' of psychobilly bands, one can see that their roots were firmly embedded in rockabilly.
http://www.myspace.com/thepharaohsband

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EMF

EMF were an / band which formed in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England in 1989 and best known for their 1990 hit "Unbelievable". The band consisted of James Atkin (vocals, guitar), Ian Dench (guitar, keyboards), Derry Brownson (keyboard, samples), Zach Foley (bass) and Mark Decloedt (drums). The band originally disbanded in 1997 and reformed in 2001. Foley died of a drug overdose in January 2002 and the band only played four more shows that year before disbanding once more. The band re-formed for a second reunion in 2007, which ended in May of 2009.

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Kenny Dope

One half of Masters Work but also hugely successful in his own right as both a DJ and producer. Started DJing in the mid 1980's with his first commercial productions available in the early 90's. Taking influences from a wide range of styles: house, disco, funk, breaks, his varied productions mirror his eclectic listening tastes.

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Baby Animals

Baby Animals are a hard rock band from Australia, formed in 1989 by vocalist Suze DeMarchi, drummer Frank Celenza, guitarist Dave Leslie and bass player Eddie Parise. They scored an immediate domestic No. 1 single with “Early Warning” and featured further Top 10 hits with “Painless”, “Rush You” and “One Word”. Their eponymous debut album Baby Animals was released in February 1992 and went multi-platinum.

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Allez Allez

There are two artiste with name Allez Allez: 1.On the verge of an international breakthrough Belgian funky new wave band Marine lost their singer Marc Marine in London.
Quickly replaced by Sarah Osborne from Repetition they did their planned Peel session and changed their name to Allez Allez.
After the relase of Promises, Sarah left the band for a marriage with Heaven 17 singer Glenn Gregory.
She was replaced by Afro-American Jackie Irwin of New York, but this didn't work out. Bass player Marka found fame as a singer in the French speaking part of the world.

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Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears is a blues band from Austin, Texas influenced by Howlin' Wolf and James Brown. Formed in 2006 and fronted by Black Joe Lewis, the rest of the bands members, or the Honeybears, include Sugarfoot Watkins, Rooster Andrews, Big Show Varley, Wild Bill Slyder, McKnight the Night Train and Sleepy Ramirez. After being signed by Lost Highway Records at SXSW they released their debut album Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! in March of 2009.

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Spank

There are at least 4 bands called spank 1. SPANK is a power pop rock band created in march 2005 by olivier guitar and voice, olivier bass and ben drum . It took only 6 months to produce their first EP eponym (with "dodo" PARISE et jean JONQUEZ/"studio mobile") to prove to the word that they are not only good on stage.
All the lyrics are written by MR CHAUZY (a mix English / French).
2006 has been a massive year of work for them with a lot of gigs in the south of france and the shooting of...

Read more about Spank on Last.fm.

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