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The Wellingtons

There are two musical groups called The Wellingtons: 1. An Australian power-pop group.
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1. The Wellingtons (power-pop) Australia’s The Wellingtons continue to inject all that is cute, smart, and sweet into their crafted up-beat power pop tunes. It’s the sound that’s brought them devoted fans in the U.S, Canada and Spain and major success in Japan where their first two albums have not only sold strongly but led the band to tour live houses, packed with smiling fans in many of their major cities.

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Rivals

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) RIVALS released their debut single, COLLIDE, on limited edition 7" on 1st May 2006. It was playlisted on XFM, Virgin Radio, BBC 6 Music and also played on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show and many more. Rivals supported The Strokes on their recent visit to Ireland and played at the 02 Wireless Festival at Hyde Park, London in June 2006 with The Strokes, The Ranconteurs, Dirty Pretty Things. The band also performed at Vital 06 and recently toured with Fightstar.

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Duncan Reid

Born in a small, English, cathedral town, Duncan Reid's early dream was to be the next George Best.
There was only one thing standing in his way: a complete lack of football talent!
So, having discovered a vintage bass guitar in his father's cupboard, Duncan headed to London
in his teenage years to land smack bang at the birth of the 70s punk explosion. Duncan's future fellow band member, Matt Dangerfield, had a basic 4 track studio in the

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The Deep End

The Deep End was a band from Watertown, NY consisting of Adam Maguire (The 65 Film Show,) Mike DeMarco (Between Walls, ex-The Score, Good Morning Reality, ex-Alabama Blacksnake) and Josh Hagen (Collective Funtime Band, ex-Dead End, ex-Curse What's Sacred) in the fall of 2002. Many shows and an EP later they broke up in 2003 when Mike moved to NYC and Adam was sent to war with the Army. A brief reunion may or may not have happened in 2004 when Mike moved back to Upstate NY and Adam came back for a few months before ultimately moving away but Adam did play at least one acoustic show in 2004.

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Chantal Claret

Chantal Claret is the front woman, lead singer and co-composer for a power pop and post punk revival band named Morningwood. She was born on a sunny Sunday afternoon on 2/21/1982 in Berkeley, California. She has also lived in Texas, but has spent most of her life in New York City. In summer 2007 she moved to California where she lives in a suburb of Los Angeles. She was married to James Euringer (lead singer, composer for the industrial/punk band, Mindless Self Indulgence) on January 18, 2008.

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Teenage Kicks

This Houston band together came three punks wanted to pay tribute to 77' punk and power-pop. Features ex-members of Die, Emperor! Die! and A Silhouette. They lasted about a year, and are now broken up.

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Colors

There are at least five bands who have recorded under the name Colors.
1) Now defunct Denver, Colorado based group that formed in June of 2008. In August of 2010, they recorded nine of the songs that they had written in the two years prior, eight of which were released as 'Palindromes'. After a lineup change that October, they briefly adopted a new moniker and began working on new material before permanently disbanding in March of 2011. On 3 April 2011 they performed for the last time, with their original lineup and name intact.

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