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Battersea

battersea is a band from Tacoma, Washington. They combine a sense of humor and pop elements with the darker sounds of bands like Joy Division, Wolfgang Press and The Smiths. Their debut e.p. was written and recorded by frontman eric reidar who played all the instruments. The band is now made up of eric reidar on guitar and vocals, james tcak on guitar and bass and renee timmer on drums. The band is playing the UK for the first time in September 2009.

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Hagar the Womb

Hagar the Womb were a punk band active in the early 80's and part of the Anarcho Punk movement. The band was formed in the toilets of the Wapping Anarchy Centre, established by the efforts of seminal Anarchist bands Crass and Poison Girls, in 1980. One week after forming they played their first gig with Zounds and The Mob. The band were originally all-female in an attempt to add a female voice to what they saw as a male-dominated movement, and the band refused to conform to the stylistic constrictions associated with bands of the time.

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Beast

1) A Canadian indie, electronic music duo based out of Montreal, Quebec. Beast's members include vocalist and lyricist Betty Bonifassi and composer/producer Jean-Phi Goncalves.
www.myspace.com/beastsound 2) A Korean group from Cube Entertainment which consists of 6 members: Dujun, Dongwoon, Yoseob, Gikwang, Hyunseung and Junhyung. 3) Hardcore/Punk band from Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.myspace.com/stockholmbeast 4) A Japanese rock band that got their start on Extasy International, a record label in Japan run by Yoshiki of X-JAPAN. They released one album called "Imagination-lens".

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The Proof

There are at least three bands called The Proof 1. The Proof is a dada/experimental/gothmacabres band formed in Rybnik, PL. www.theproof.pl
2. The Proof is a hard rock band from Beveren, Belgium
3. The Proof is a Hardcore Punk band from London Ontario
2. The Proof Is a new band from Flanders, Belgium. We're looking for as much gigs as possible! We play 70's Hardrock and 60's Garage. We just made our first demo. You can hear it on myspace. It's also available for €3.

Read more about The Proof on Last.fm.

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Feeding Fingers

Feeding Fingers is a trio fronted by artist, musician, author and animator, Justin Curfman. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, but has since relocated to Germany. Formation (2006) Justin Curfman, an award-winning animator/filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. He had written and produced pieces of music that never found a place in any of his films. With support from guitar/bass player, Todd Caras and percussionist, Danny Hunt, Justin Curfman formed a band to rearrange the pieces as songs and play them live.

Read more about Feeding Fingers on Last.fm.

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Band of Holy Joy

Captains Journal: 14 08 09 There is a luminous glow, a convergence of harmonics, a wicked bursting of energy around the place. The night has suddenly sprung into life once again. Rodrigo meets the Queen stranger birds still are to be seen hurtling through the sky. The pernicious fog is breaking and behind that fraying blanket of ether, stars explode. Cast off your leather jacket. You have nice skin scarred well by nicer body markings. If I were fifty years younger, hell, who knows which way my gender preference may...

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Black Ice

There are more than one artist that use the name "Black Ice": a No Wave / experimental / gothic band, a gangsta hip-hop group formed by Iced-T and Black Silver, a Hungarian rapper, as well as a Rapper/Poet, a soul and funk unit from the US and a jug band from Kentucky, circa 1920. 1) No Wave / experimental / gothic
Black Ice (straight outta Oakland, California) was formed in 1999 by members of the legendary Phantom Limbs, Stevenson Sedgwick and Skot Brown.

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Feud

There is more than one artist with this name: 1)Feud (Post Punk / Gothic Rock)
Feud was a Gothic Rock band from Bristol, UK. They released one MLP in 1984 called "To Load But Once" which contained 5 songs. They were Influenced by bands like UK Decay and it's offshoots In Excelsis and Furyo, a great example of this is the artwork of their sole release which reminds a lot of the ones of Furyo's. Steve Street was the producer of their record who seems to be Stephen Street the one who would later produce The Smiths!

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