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The Colours

theCOLOURS drive a sharp silver blade through the blood red heart of pop rock. Drawing influences from 80's and 90's dance music their electro edge provides definition and character to their very own brand of melodic pop music. Being called upon for support slots with DAN LE SAC, THE INFADELS, BOY KILL BOY and THE WOMBATS, theCOLOURS now have caught the attention of Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman. She has selected them as soundtrack to her website www.edithbowman.com

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Andy Raven

The Andy Raven band peddles urban folk, folk pop, and comtemporary folk: poetic and hard-hitting tunes driven by fiddle and percussion with creative acoustic instrumentation. Born in Buckinghamshire UK, ANdy Raven became a chorister at an early age, also learning classical piano, fiddle and trumpet. The Andy Raven band was formed in 2007 of: Andy Raven - fiddle, vocals, piano, keyboards, didgeridoo
Rikk SMith - cajon, bodhran, djembe, yambu, spoons
Ben Humphreys - electric and acoustic bass
Graham Judd - 6 and 12- string guitars

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The Race

There are two bands called The Race, one hailing from Reading, in England, and the other from Chicago, USA. 1)When The Race released their debut album "Be Your Alibi" in 2006, the acclaim it met with was positive and across the board. They were quickly tacked onto NME club tours, toured the UK and Europe with the likes of Cooper Temple Clause and Seafood, and invited to perform live from Maida Vale for Radio 1’s Huw Stephens’ in a show celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band’s highly distinguished record label shifty disco.

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The Lightyears

The Lightyears are a UK-based 3-piece trading in Glorious Technicolour Power-Pop. The band have toured extensively across the world including South Africa, USA, Thailand, South Korea and mainland Europe. They were awarded BEST POP/ROCK ACT at the first ever UK INDY Awards in 2007 and following this were invited to work with legendary producer Hugh Padgham, famous for selling over 50 million records with Sting & The Police, Genesis, Paul McCartney and more.

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Slowdive

Slowdive is a / band that formed in 1989 in Reading, England, United Kingdom. Signed to Creation Records in 1990 and initially championed by the British music press, the band scored a UK top forty entry with their debut album Just for a Day. The band consists of Rachel Goswell (vocals/guitar), Neil Halstead (vocals/guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), Christian Savill (guitar), and Simon Scott (drums, 1990-1994, 2014-present); additionally, Ian McCutcheon replaced Scott from 1994-1995. Goswell and Halstead had known each other since early childhood in Reading, Berkshire.

Read more about Slowdive on Last.fm.

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Sequoia

Sequoia is (1) a band from Chicago. They released their debut album, "Monday Morning" in 2005. Their sophmore album, "Time to Change", was released in May of 2008. In 2009 they added Cully Johnston from Grinner/Powers on guitar and in 2011 released their third full-length, "Couple Two Tree." It was engineered/produced by Allen Epley (Shiner, The Life and Times) and Eric Abert (The Life and Times, Ring Cicada) and recorded at Matt Talbott's (HUM) studio, Earth Analog.

Read more about Sequoia on Last.fm.

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Baker

Formed in the musical hotbed that is Steve Lord's basement, there was only one direction this band was headed, and that was straight into the hearts and minds of music enthusiasts. Blessed with a melodic cacophony that veers away from the standard, formulaic rock song, they drive straight at you with an unabashed zealousness that makes you want to dance and break things at the same time. In the midst of this tornado is Conan Skyrme, James Tracy, Andy Casey, Steve Lord, and Nicole Boudreau.

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