U.K. were a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 to 1980. The band was founded by bass guitarist John Wetton and drummer Bill...
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Tour in the United States. In early 2008, they released a split EP with UK band Dead Swans, which featured two songs from each artist. Architects' contributed...
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September 2007. The band came together in December 2003, and in a short period of time gigged and toured all over the UK and abroad with bands such as The Libertines...
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derived from the title of the Phil Spector release Back to Mono. The band signed a UK-only contract at first with Echo Records, passing up labels like Warner...
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Ultravox (redirect from Tiger Lily (UK band))
wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980 and 1986, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the...
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Widowmaker were a British hard rock band and active from 1975 to 1977. They were considered by many to be a supergroup and released two albums. Although...
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reached number 19 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was a demo that was not intended for release. It was offered to another band who turned it down before...
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English/UK punk rock band formed in the Warminster and Melksham areas of Wiltshire in 1980. Singer Dick Lucas had formerly been in another local band, the...
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Soft Play (redirect from Slaves (UK band))
unwanted connotations. The band was formed as a duo after Holman and Vincent failed to recruit other musicians to join their punk band, and began sharing songwriting...
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Lostprophets (redirect from Public Disturbance (UK band))
including T.J.'s in Newport. From there, they went on to tour the UK circuit. The band recorded three demos during this time: Here comes the Party, Para...
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The Wake are a British post-punk, synth-pop and later indie pop band, formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty (formerly of Altered Images)...
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Artful Dodger (duo) (redirect from The Artful Dodger (UK band))
Artful Dodger was originally a UK garage duo featuring songwriters and producers Mark Hill and Pete Devereux. They achieved notoriety in the 1990s and...
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The Enemy (known as The Enemy UK in the United States) are an English indie rock band formed in Coventry in 2006. The band's debut album We'll Live and Die...
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McFly (redirect from McFly (UK band))
the band had their first UK headlining tour. The band's second album, Wonderland, which was released in 2005, also charted at number one in the UK making...
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The Cure (redirect from Malice (UK band))
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead...
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The Charlatans (often referred as The Charlatans UK in the United States) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham, West Midlands in 1988. As of...
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Klaxons (redirect from Klaxons (UK band))
Klaxons were an English rock band, based in London. Following the release of several 7-inch singles on different independent record labels, as well as...
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Revenge was a band formed by New Order bassist Peter Hook (vocals, bass, keyboards) and Lavolta Lakota and Rawhead singer Davyth Hicks (aka Dave Hicks)...
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by the band themselves, as the label found Cale's recordings uncommercial. In the United States and Canada, the band and album were dubbed UK Squeeze...
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Nirvana are a pop rock band formed in London in 1966. In 1985, the band reformed. Members of the band sued the American band Nirvana over the usage of...
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Tempest was a British rock band active from 1972 to 1974. Its core members were Jon Hiseman on drums and Mark Clarke on bass. They released two studio...
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English heavy metal band formed in Barnsley in 1975. As leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), they had eight UK Top 40 albums during...
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911 (English group) (redirect from 911 (UK band))
There It Is also produced their only UK number-one single, a cover of "A Little Bit More", which topped the UK Singles Chart in January 1999. In their...
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Your Heart" and "Right Between the Eyes". In the US, they were listed as Wax UK, while later releases were additionally credited as Andrew Gold & Graham Gouldman...
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formed in the 1970s. The band charted internationally with their song "You to Me Are Everything", which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. They also...
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the mid-1970s. The band's first two albums contained strong elements of punk and new wave, and although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie...
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and only reached No. 35 in UK. The band embarked on a UK headline tour with more television appearances in the UK and Europe. In 1978, the third album...
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the West Midlands conurbation-Birmingham area) to reach the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, and were unusual for having a female bass guitarist, Megan...
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pop-punk band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, consisting of James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson. Formed in 2000, the band has had four UK number-one...
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debut album War Crimes (Inhuman Beings). All this time the band gigged constantly in the UK building up a following on the way. Another demo Domesday was...
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