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Operating from Westfield (as you might expect) just south of Bristol, The Westfield Mining Disaster were put together in 2006 by songwriter Paul Towler whose previous band The Haywains were veterans of the 'indie-pop' scene in the late 80's to early 90's and produced a lengthy back catalogue of records for labels such as Vinyl Japan, Elefant Records and Waaaaah! The Westfield Mining Disaster aim to bring a fresh twist to the traditional indie-pop blueprint by adding influences such as alt-country and dark, brooding lyrics.

Geoffrey Paul Barrow (born 9 December 1971, Walton in Gordano, Somerset, England) is the producer/instrumentalist for Bristol-based Portishead since it's inception in 1991. At the dawn of the '90s, Barrow was making a name for himself as a remixer, working with such artists as Primal Scream, Paul Weller, Gabrielle and Depeche Mode. In addition, Barrow had produced a track for Tricky and written songs for Neneh Cherry.

Whalebone Polly is the project of Kate Stables of This Is The Kit and Rachael Dadd of The Hand which started back in 2004 in Bristol, United Kingdom. They even got to play on the accoustic stage at Glastonbury in 2005. Also recorded their album Recording With The Window Open which is available through indie Angel's Egg Records, Japan. Recently, Whalebone Polly spent the month of October 2008 traversing Japan by train and played songs, live alive alives tour.

Often compared to the likes of Antony and the Johnsons, Scott Walker and Richard Hawley, Jacques, a robin’s singing and songwriting stem from Davide Ariasso’s genuine soul journey. This started in Italy, his country of origin, and quite naturally landed in England, where many of the artists who inspired him came from. His dark, sensual and solitary music investigates archetypal themes, literary characters and dreamy, eerie, melancholy stories that seek to inspire a search for truthful expression.