Dave Formula, (born David Tomlinson 1946), is an English keyboardist and film score composer from Manchester, UK who played with the post-punk band Magazine, and New Romantic ensemble Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, in Ludus and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers. He started out in the mid-sixties (ca. 1965) and achieved some success with the R&B / Blues / Soul band St.
Started in the Summer of 2003 as a collection of four track songs made for friends, Jacob's Stories is music made by a bearded singer songwriter named Stuart Lee. To date he has released three split singles (with Tyler, Good Morning Captain and Metronomes, respectively), a three song E.P ('Bird') and two full-lengths - 'Fledgling' (2006, Gravity DIP) and 'Undisciplined Art' (2008, self-released). Often compared to Hood, Sigur Ros, Talk Talk, and Radiohead, Jacob's Stories is best described as semi-electronic, mainly piano/organ-based, downtempo indie.
Nova’s Basement are three girls hunting for that big shiver sound with layers of cello, violin, guitar and sweet ‘n sour voices. Although originally all hailing from Australia, the band formed in London during the summer of 2005. After running through a string of very random and often humorous band names, the girls finally settled on ‘Nova’s Basement’ - a little nod to their favourite Russian rehearsal rooms in King Cross.
Task Force are an underground British hip hop group from Highbury in London, England. The group is led primarily by two brothers Chester P (vocals, song writing and occasional music production) and Farma G (vocals, song writing and music production). The name Task Force has been undertaken however by DJ Louis Slipperz (music production and DJing) and loosely by Ramson Badbones (vocals and songwriting) who has appeared on a few releases as part of the group.
matthew hidden is a pop duo / 5 piece, based in Manchester and London simultaneously, matthew hidden claims to owe it all to a highly complex system of tubes (presumably, they mean the trains). “We often combine music and lyrics to make songs,” so goes the claim of the band, whose debut single, A Berry Bursts, was played on XFM within one week of its release: "The truth of the matter is that I love their latest tune." - Hattie Pearson, XFM Radio matthew hidden’s music has been featured on the NME blog twice, and has also been upvoted by numerous Hype Machine critics:
No Lay Born Nathalie Athansiou is a female lyricist/singer/songwriter and aspiring dancer is one of the most inspiring and influential artists to appear out of the UK underground scene. No Lay is not just one of the biggest grime and hip hop lyricists out there but has also been singing since the ages of 7, song writing and dancing as she has high expectations of herself becoming one of the greatest and most successful allround talented credible artists of today.
Taken from her website www.lisakenny.co.uk: "Yes after all your years of searching you have finally found it: the official website of Lisa Kenny! Guitar fancier, ukulele botherer, all round talented monkey! BREAKING NEWS - The lovely boys at Ukeylove have been on the radio! They mentioned Lisa and played Ma Belle for the glorious listeners of BBC Radio London. Pleasure your audio holes with this.
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