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23 Skidoo cross industrial, punk, hip hop, funk, jazz and tribal elements. The band had interests in martial arts, burundi and kodo drumming, Fela Kuti, The Last Poets, William S. Burroughs, as well as the emerging confluence of industrial music, post-punk and funk. 23 Skidoo was formed in North London, UK in 1979 as a post-punk trio. By 1980 they had grown into a quartet consisting of Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull, Sam Mills and Patrick Griffiths.

FREE DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE AT WWW.STRICKENCITY.COM Stricken City play pop songs lingering on lovers and tramps jumping between places and pictures... When Iain Pettifer (guitars) first met Rebekah Raa (vocals/keys), they were wearing exactly the same clothes. “How could they not form a band then?”, you’d think, only the pair were actually in high school, in a math class. Nonetheless, as painstaking algebra lessons repeated themselves every week...

The Mummers are a band based in the English seaside town of Brighton, centred around London-born singer-songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni. They take their name 'Mummers' from the medieval performing troupes who would go from door-to-door wearing masks and costumes, staging plays in rhyme and song and mime.
Khan-Panni was once better known as Raissa, a solo artist that revealed a jumble of influences; a mix of Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Englishness.

MAD STARING EYES are a 4-piece from London who have been described as a cross between the Cure and U2. In 2005, after releasing their debut EP, they won the prestigious John Peel 'Best New Band' competition and played Glastonbury Festival that summer. Since then they have toured the USA, Canada, Russia and Europe and played shows with everyone from The Fratellis to The Subways. Their debut album, 'Bored Of Looking Cool', recorded at Ray Davies' (The Kinks) Konk Studios in North London, was released in July 2008 on their own label, Retina Records.