Beef Conspiracy
Beef Conspiracy Are an Grindcore / Death Metal band from The United Kingdom.
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Die Laughing
UPDATE: Die Laughing reformed in 2012 to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. On the 8th May it was announced that Die Laughing would be touring with The March Violets on a selection of key UK dates in June 2012, before beginning work on a new album. More information:
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History Die Laughing are mainly remembered for their input to the 90s Goth scene but their roots go much further back into the 1980s.
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The Distractions
The band was originally formed in 1975 by college friends Mike Finney (vocals) and Steve Perrin (guitar),[1] alongside Lawrence Tickle (bass) and Tony Trap (drums).[2] The band changed tack with the advent of punk in 1977 and Finney and Perrin recruited a new line-up of Pip Nicholls (bass), Adrian Wright (guitar), and Alec Sidebottom (drums, formerly of The Purple Gang), now mixing punk rock with sixties influences.
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Atomic Kitten
Atomic Kitten were an English girl group, first established in 1997 in Liverpool. The original line-up featured, Liz McClarnon, Kerry Katona and Heidi Range (now in the Sugababes), but Range decided to quit and was replaced by Natasha Hamilton. Jenny Frost (formerly of Precious) replaced Katona in 2001. Hamilton, McClarnon & Frost were the final and most successful line-up of the group. Atomic Kitten had three UK number one singles; Whole Again, the fourth best selling single by a girl group of all time; Eternal Flame and The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling).
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The Freshies
The Freshies is the name of a band from Manchester, England formed in the mid 1970's. Their first single, The Freshies EP, was released in 1978 on the RAZZ record label. Their biggest selling and best known song is 1980's "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" renamed as "I'm In Love With The Girl On A Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk" on request from Virgin Records, which reached number 54 in the UK charts in 1981.
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Samantha Bower
Samantha Bower Fragility, teenage angst, broken hearts, dilemmas of love, all wrapped in rebellious ruggedness. With a unique singing style, and a memorable Emo-Punk appearance, Samantha Bower is a rock girl. Raised by the likes of Sex Pistols but mainly influenced by American Punk-Rock acts such as Blink 182, Letters to Cleo, Sum 41, The All-American Rejects, All Time Low, Greenday, Avril Lavigne, Kamelot, Plain White T's, Goo Goo Dolls and Evanescence.
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Culture Club
Culture Club was a popular 1980s pop group, perhaps most noticeable for their gender-bending frontman Boy George. The other members of the band were Roy Hay on guitars and keyboards, Mikey Craig playing bass and Jon Moss (ex Damned, London, Adam and the Ants) on drums. Their first album, 1982's Kissing to Be Clever, became a major international hit, spawning the hit singles "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (which went 'all the way' in the BBC-Charts in late 1982), "Time (Clock of the Heart)", and "I'll Tumble 4 Ya".
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Guarded By Robots
Guarded By Robots are: Miranda Harding – Bass/Vocals Lowell Mills – Guitar/Vocals Matt Smith – Drums/Vocals Guarded By Robots are a Newcastle-based post-hardcore/alt-rock band formed in 2005. The band cite Biffy Clyro, Hot Chip, Arcade Fire and Explosions In The Sky as equally vital influences Mills met Smith when he became bassist in Lowell’s first band Jacknife in 2002. When the band split, Matt took over drum duty and the pair began playing and writing together again in autumn 2005. After pulling a handful of songs together they set about looking for a bassist.
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John Leyton
John Leyton is an English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song "Johnny Remember Me", (written by Geoff Goddard and produced by the legendary Joe Meek) which reached Number 1 in the UK chart in August 1961. John Dudley Leyton was born on 17 February 1939 in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. After completing his National Service, he studied drama, paying his way through drama school with bit-part roles in films and on television.
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Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest (born Max Alfred Elliott on June 10, 1961) is a reggae singer from England. Career Of West Indian descent, and the second youngest of nine children, he was born in Lewisham, London. He is known as the 'King of Lovers Rock'. His music is sometimes closer to R&B, and pop, than to reggae music itself. His first major album was the self-titled Maxi Priest (1988) along with his cover of Cat Stevens' Wild World established him as one of the British reggae top singers this internationally acclaimed vocalist, is the only UK reggae act to score an American Billboard Number One.
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