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.
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Archaic Smile are a 4 Piece Hardcore/Punk band reigning from Bristol. The band was originally compiled from ex No Guts No Glory Guitarist, Zach Dunn, ex The Harlots Bassist, Mitch Dowling, Becoming Rome's Josh Gallop and Tom Hoddinott and to finish the line up, Tom Stroud. After a year hiatus, AS are in the midst's of rebuilding their selves with a new line up, a new sound and big plans with a lot of drive behind them.
Luke Brooks-Lead vocals/Guitar
Maya Indelicato-Backing vocals/Drums "Pleasingly off-template" - Venue
Wilder are a indie/electronic band formed in Bristol, England in 2009. They are signed to Rough Trade Records and have just come off tour with Julian Casablancas. Their debut album is due out in the third quarter of 2010.
Team Brick is a Bristol (UK) based noise/experimental musician using a mixture of throat singing, and virtuosic sound experimentation with various instruments and objects. He has admitted to being heavily influenced in vocal style on Mike Patton and Bjork, but influences are much wider, including Klezmer and Tuvan throat singing. He is signed to various independent labels including Invada Records, for which his first "proper" CD release, "Alogon" is due out in September 2008.
Lewis Tuff is an artist from Bristol who loves gigging and performing newly written material. Playing at a wide range of venues in and around Bristol his style and performance develop and mature with every performance. An upcoming singer/songwriter with strong influences from Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens and Jack Johnson. cLuMsY (a local Bristol band) have been a great influence in Lewis's songwriting, guitar playing and musical taste. They also produced and played on his new EP: In the Absence of Light. Check them out here: cLuMsY band.
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.
Feline1 is a Northern Irish musician living in Brighton, Sussex, UK. He owns too many analogue synthesizers and has ginger hair. His main influences are Yukio Mishima, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and that time when Kenny Everett's bum grew bigger and bigger until he floated up to the ceiling and blew up.
He used to be in a moderately unsuccesful band called The Feline Dream, and is currently the personal live sound engineer of 2-girl 1-boy Brighton electro-racketeers, Miss Pain. From 2007 to 2009 he played boards of keyness, cello, bass guitar and backing vocals for Brighton band Hollow Moon.