Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born November 1, 1985), is a solo artist, formerly a Roll Deep crew member, who emerged from the UK Garage music scene. His music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga, with some more eclectic samples. Dizzee began MCing on pirate radio and at raves at fifteen, but since his mainstream success he has distanced himself from the fledgling scene.
Hailing from Eel Pie Island, London, England Mystery Jets are a prog/psychedelia-influenced British indie band who refer to as many genres as they like without being bound by any of them. Formed in 2005, the band consists of Blaine Harrison (lead vocals, keyboards), his father Henry Harrison (guitar, backing vocals), William Rees (lead guitar), Kai Fish (bass) and Kapil Trivedi (drums)
After some EPs and an NME featured track (Alas Agnes), the band toured and released their album 'Making Dens' in 2006 to positive reviews.
Putrefy is a brutal death metal band from Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, UK. They formed in 1992 and, as of May 2010, are signed to Metal Age Productions and have released two full-length albums. Current line-up:
- Connor Brown (vocals and guitars)
- Jason Maclaughlin (drums)
- Aaron Rankin (guitar)
- Aaron Scilley (bass)
Former members:
- Dave Samuel (vocals) (also in Infestation)
- Jason "J.B." Barriskill (vocals) (also in Epoch and Waylander) (R.I.P. 19/02/10 - heart attack)
- Frank Calwell (vocals)
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.
Since forming on the playground of their old 6th form college in Cambridge, Isaac's Aircraft claimed accolades on the Cambridge music scene with a summer of packed out live shows and the release of their debut EP, Holding Up The Line in 2007. Their latest EP Friends & Foes, as featured on BBC6 Music, recognises the bands progression from a three piece to a four piece, creating an all-together much rockier sound.
There are two artists with the name Aspects:
1. Midlands based hardcore/porgressive
2. Bristol hip-hop group 1. Aspects are a Nottinghamshire based 5-piece formed in April 2011, after the breakup of a previous project; with this they brought a fresh approach to their music, bigger ideas and a more professional attitude, creating a more mature and refined sound. Soon after forming, the band recorded their first demo, which was released for free download in June 2011.
Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970, St David's Hospital, Bangor, Wales) is a Welsh singer, Christian and television personality who first came to fame as a boy soprano. He is the only child of Nest and Derek Jones, and was raised in a Welsh-speaking community in the small Anglesey village of Llandegfan. He is best known for singing "Walking in the Air", the song from Channel 4's animated film "The Snowman", based on the book by Raymond Briggs. The song reached No. 5 in the UK charts. Ironically, the version in the film was not performed by Aled, but by Peter Auty, a St.
Matthew Helders (born 7 May 1986), is the drummer for the band Arctic Monkeys, he also provides backing vocals. In August 2008, it was announced that Helders would compile the latest release in the LateNightTales DJ mix cd series, that was released on 27 October 2008.
Seth Lakeman, the West Country born singer and songwriter credited with bringing folk music to a whole new audience since his 2005 Mercury nominated album, 'Kitty Jay', released his eagerly anticipated 4th album, ‘Poor Man's Heaven’, on June 30th 2008. Seth’s new album, (the follow up to 2006’s critically acclaimed, gold selling ‘Freedom Fields’), perfectly captures the raw, rhythmic energy of his live shows.
