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Comet Gain

Comet Gain is a British indie rock band with heavy influences from Dexys Midnight Runners and northern soul. The band includes ex-Huggy Bear bass player Jon Slade and included future Velocette members Sarah Bleach and Jax Coombes.
Comet Gain was started in David Feck's bedroom in Oxford, United Kingdom in 1992. He roped in housemate Phil Sutton, (who went by the ridiculous moniker Hoffner Burns) to play drums, and then persuaded Sarah Bleach and Jax Coombes, who lived round the corner to join.

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The Scratch

The Scratch are a St.Albans based five peice band formed in 2002. Influences are mainly found in the realms of classic English rock from The Buzzcocks, T-Rex, The Kinks, Primal Scream, Blur, Happy Mondays, Be Bop Deluxe, Adam and the Ants, The Fire Engines, Killing Joke and Wire, but also include more modern acts such as Hot Chip, New Young Pony Club, Cage the Elephant and The Mighty Boosh and legendary US acts such as Devo, Pere Ubu, Sparks and The Nuggets compilation albums.

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The Seahorses

The Seahorses were a British rock group comprising ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire, Chris Helme (vocals and guitar), Stuart Fletcher (bass), and Andy Watts (drums). They released one album, Do It Yourself, in 1997. A second album was recorded (with Mark Heany replacing Watts as drummer) but was never officially released, although it later surfaced as a bootleg. Squire went on to release two solo albums: Time Changes Everything (2002) and Marshall's House (2004) .

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Alistair Griffin

Alistair Griffin is a British singer songwriter from Yorkshire with a distinctive pure toned voice. He plays acoustic guitar and also sings lead vocals with his own band, blue nun. His music encompasses a wide variety of different styles, from light jangly pop to simple acoustic love songs; from anthemic ballads to full on rock. In 2003, after several years singing with various bands, he went on Fame Academy to try and get a solo record deal.

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Cinerama

Cinerama from Leeds, UK started life as a duo in 1997, The Wedding Present's David Gedge and his girlfriend Sally Murrell, together with a shifting line-up of collaborators. 1998's Va Va Voom "turbo-driven melodies and bittersweet vignettes taking in everything from John Barry to the Zombies" (The Times) featured The Church's Marty Willson-Piper and Emma Pollock from The Delgados. Then later in 1998, Gedge rescued the rhythm section of the disbanded Goya Dress ([Terry de Castro and Simon Pearson) and combined them with Wedding Present guitarist Simon Cleave.

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Black Grape

Black Grape were a rock and roll band from Manchester, England, formed in 1993 by Shaun Ryder and Bez, formerly of Happy Mondays. They recruited rapper Kermit and drummer Ged Lynch of the Manchester-based group The Ruthless Rap Assassins, plus guitarist Wags from The Paris Angels. Recording of new material started that year, although the group were not under contract. In 1995 they signed to Radioactive Records (an imprint of major label BMG) and released their debut album. It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah immediately charted at number 1 in the UK, and spawned three Top 20 singles.

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Cast

Cast (1): A Britpop-Band formed in Liverpool, England in 1993.
Cast (2): Progressive rock band from Mexico, active from the late 70s to the present.
Cast (3): Norwegian rapper from the late 90s to the present
Cast (4): The cast of a musical or play.
Cast (5): A romanian hip-hop band
Cast (6): Russian IDM / Glitch project. (1): Cast was formed in 1993 by John Power, the former bassist of The La's. They released four albums between 1995 and 2001.

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BlackBud

Blackbud are an alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon (near Bath), England. The group consist of Joe Taylor on guitars and vocals, Adam Newton on bass, and Sam Nadel on drums. Their debut album, entitled "From The Sky", was released on 31st July 2006, with their latest self titled album due out on the 8th June 2009.

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Tim Rice-Oxley

Timothy James Rice-Oxley (June 2nd, 1976), simply known as Tim Rice-Oxley, is the pianist, bassist, composer and songwriter of the British band Keane.

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Ant & Dec

Anthony McPartlin (born 18 November 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September 1975), from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, are popular presenters of light entertainment television programmes in the United Kingdom, working together as the duo Ant and Dec. They first met on the set of the UK TV series Byker Grove, in which their characters formed a dance/rap group in around 1993. The duo soon scored a recording contract and left acting to perform under their character names as PJ & Duncan. The first song they performed on the show was included on the debut album Psyche!, and was called Tonight I'm Free.