Gilles Mathieu is a hobbyist french composer and performer, whose work goes from full orchestral scores to instrumental solos via choral music. With many influences including traditional and folk music, 19th century's late-romantic composers as well as contemporary sountracks composers, his style is difficult to define. There seems anyway to be a common factor in the highly story-telling character of most of his work.
This Providence (previously known as Sunday Best), is a four piece pop rock band from Seattle, Washington US. The members of This Providence came together in the summer of 2001 and soon after recorded a 4 song demo CD, under the short lived name of "T minus 1." In 2003 they recorded the better known The Sunday Best EP, co-produced, and self-released (now out of print). While still in high school, they gathered a strong local following as well as some label attention. After graduating, the band released their debut full-length record, Our Worlds Divorce, produced by Casey Bates.
1.) John Steel was an American vocalist who found his biggest success in the 1920s. Described by musicologist Allan Sutton as a “working man’s John McCormack,” Steel was signed to the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1919, the same year he starred in “The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.” An Actors Equity strike that year brought Steel into the headlines when, although siding with strikers, he was legally forced to perform.
Although he was born in Liverpool, Ewan MacPherson has always been most at home in the countryside. He was brought up in a beautiful river-valley in North Wales, an inspiring place where his love of music and especially simple, strong songs began. He moved back to the city in 1996, to be one of the first ever students at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Accepted on the strength of his singing and song-writing talents, Ewan worked on many aspects of his music, graduating with a BA (hons) in 1998.
The Undertones are an Northern Irish rock band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975. The original band consisted of: * Feargal Sharkey (lead vocals),
* John O'Neill (guitar),
* Damian O'Neill (guitar, keyboards and vocals),
* Michael Bradley (bass and vocals), and
* Billy Doherty (drums). John O'Neill was the original main song writer, with his brother Damian and Mickey Bradley writing in various solo & combined variations for most of the remainder.
Jack first realised his talent whilst as a trainee mechanic he would sing in the garage. He travelled to Germany with the band Serious Women where he first met the members of The Black Romantics his early backing band. He first became popular in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residence at Da Club in Dublin. Word of mouth spread and the small venue was soon turning people away. The band played mostly covers of Jacques Brel songs, with one or two of Jack's own, and recorded the album Wax in 1995. Jack eventually split with the Black Romantics and went solo.
Adebisi Shank are an electric, energetic, loud band from Ireland proving there's more to the artistic,experimental musical nature of their land than just 'charity giving' money grabbers like U2. Taking their cue from acts such as Battles, Oxes and Lite, their debut LP "This is the album of a band called Adebisi Shank" shines through with rays of inventiveness that would teach a few of their contemporaries a thing or two in the art of writing, without ever leaning into the self indulgent persuasions many have fallen ill to when attempting this sort of 'art noise'.
Eoghan Quigg (born 12 July 1992) is an Irish pop singer who finished third in the fifth series of the British television music talent contest The X Factor in 2008. As a result of his X Factor success, Quigg was due to be signed by Simon Cowell, X Factor creator/producer and owner and CEO of Syco Records, but was instead signed to RCA after Cowell's offer was withdrawn. Eoghan Quigg grew up in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He lives at home with his parents, his two younger brothers Dylan and Calum, and baby sister Chrissie Mia (who was born during the X Factor finals).
This may seem like an incorrect tag for De Dannan, but De Dannan also recorded as De Danann. In fact, their first four albums, beginning in 1975 were cut under the De Danann name. Their debut album was called "De Danann."