Once upon a time in the West Midlands, four lads who liked to play a bit of music decided to play a bit together. At first things went well and all four were happy. After playing together again and again, things improved. Shared feelings of contentment shifted up a gear to excitement, and this encouraged them to want to play more music together. This led, in no time at all or so it seemed, to still further improvement.
The Workers are a group of individuals working in different public services around the country. They came together to record this song in solidarity with colleagues taking part in the Day of Action for Pensions Justice on 30 November.
The Workers are hoping to raise awareness of the campaign for a fair deal on pensions for public service staff, and you can help them doing this by downloading the single when it’s released on 20 November, and getting their message of solidarity into the national charts.
Formed in the old wastelands of witchery and paranoia, Cambridgeshire band Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats deliver the new sound of 60s terror. This popular beat combo crawled from its secluded hideout in 2009 to record their debut album, 'Vol. 1' for Killer Candy Records. With a limited release in 2010, the album was warmly received with the track 'Witches Garden' appearing on a Classic Rock Magazine cover CD. The band also drew the attention of Leif Edling from legendary doom band Candlemass, who would later recommend them to Lee Dorrian at Rise Above.
The Only Ones are a power pop band which formed in 1976 in London, England. They consist of Peter Perrett (vocals, guitar), John Perry (guitar), Alan Mair (bass) and Mike Kellie (drums). The band is best known for their 1978 single "Another Girl, Another Planet" which was called "arguably the greatest rock single ever recorded" by Allmusic contributor Andy Claps. The band broke up in 1982 and reunited in 2007. They were associated with the punk rock 70's punk scene, yet straddled the musical territory in between punk, power pop and hard rock, with noticeable influences from psychedelia.
The Felt Tips began in summer 2006 when two kites became entangled with each other on Largs Beach just outside Glasgow. Andrew was struck by how much Miguel looked like Marr. Miguel thought Andrew perhaps might be gay but wasn’t sure. The duo began writing songs along usual indie-pop themes – oral sex, the triumph of losing your virginity, sexual inadequacy and unstable girlfriends. Andrew’s childhood friend and psychiatrist couldn’t believe his ears and wanted in. The quartet was completed with the arrival of drummer Kevin H Carroll.
Ralph McTell is an English singer/songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk scene since the 1960s.
Ralph McTell is probably best known for the song Streets of London which has been covered by over a hundred artists around the world. From Clare to Here has proved almost as popular, during a long and continuing recording and performing career.
McTell's guitar style has been influenced by many of the USA's country blues 'Piedmont- style' guitar players of the early 20th century...
Dave Kelly is a prominent Blues guitarist, born in London Dave first recorded for Tony McPhee on his groundhog series recordings in 1968 on the album Me and the Devil. Tony featured Dave’s sister Jo-Ann Kelly and gave a track for Dave to sing and play on.
At this time Tony McPhee disbanded the groundhogs and with Dave Kelly and his sister Jo-Ann moved over to the John Dummer Blues Band where he recorded two albums 1968 Cabal and 1969 John Dummers Band.
Formed in 2008, the Hard Blues/Indie-rock band DeepSeaGreen consists of brothers Jon and Daniel Jefford, Trent Halliday and Marco Menestrina. All the members with the exception of Italian born Marco originally hail from the East End of London.
In January 2010, after a year of gigging, they released their debut recording, followed in April 2011 by Valsorda, a 6 track EP of original songs recorded in Northern italy.
There are at least three artists by this name:
1) A crust punk / thrash metal / doom metal band from England.
2) An old school melodic death metal band from Sweden.
3) A doom metal band from Italy. 1) The British Sacrilege was a female-fronted metal band from the Midlands region of England. Despite having played relatively few gigs during their existence, Sacrilege is today recognised as an important band...
Chris Selman is a singer/songwriter in the classic style of the early 70’s troubadours. The single ‘In The Morning’ combines a life affirming ‘whistle while you work’ melody that draws you into the deceptively simple lyrics that are refreshingly angst free. A gentle world weariness replaces empty rebellious posturing. There is a new dawn freshness here, a song that’s easy craft flows and weaves encouraging you to sing along, staying in the subconscious like a half remembered dream.