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Primal Scream

Formed in 1984 and winners of the first ever Mercury Music Prize for 1991’s ‘Screamadelica’, Primal Scream have influenced a generation of fans over their 20 year career. Fronted by former Jesus & Mary Chain’s Bobby Gillespie with Andrew Innes (guitar), Robert Young (guitar), ex-Felt keyboardist Martin Duffy (keyboards) and Stone Roses bass guitarist Robert ‘Mani’ Mounfield, they signed to Alan McGee’s Creation Records in 1985 and the rest is history.

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Ordinary Boys

It's only a year or so since The Ordinary Boys burst on to the UK music scene with the two and a half minutes of pure energy that is 'Maybe Someday'. Acclaimed from all sides as one of the most exciting bands of 2004, the four lads from Worthing rapidly moved from toilet tours to bigger venues, built a fanatical fanbase that gloried under the self proclaimed banner of The Ordinary Army, topped the Japanese charts and generally made their mark on anyone who was paying attention to the music world.

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Kaiser Chiefs

Kaiser Chiefs formed up in Leeds in the summer of 2003 and thanks to the phenomenal success of this year's NME Awards Tour are now one of the UK's biggest bands. The band features Ricky Wilson (lead vocals, owner of stylish blue and orange suit), Andrew 'Whitey' White (guitar), Simon Rix (bass), Nick 'Peanut' Baines (keyboards and modeller of impressive pork-pie hats) and Nick Hodgson (drums and vocals).

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The Automatic

Scattered somewhere throughout the academic corridors of Great Britain are four very confused admissions tutors. Faced with the choice of spending years getting drunk and in debt as students, or drunk and famous as rockstars, the four boys who would be The Automatic really only ever had one option. 'The plan,' says Iwan Griffiths, 'was take a year out, see how the band goes and when it came to September, decide whether to go or not.

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The Twang

"A little over a month ago, a three-song demo by an unjustly unheard Birmingham band called The Twang landed on our desk. It was a collection of songs that stirred a fire in the very pit of our souls. The kind of recording that reminded us why rock 'n' fucking roll was, is, and always will be, the greatest form of human expression to have ever existed." - NME

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Bedouin Soundcash

Bedouin Soundclash has emerged in the past two years as a young group refusing to be classified, while blurring the lines of reggae and rock. Jay Malinowski's soulful wail and rasp rests on Eon Sinclair's deep dubbing bass while Pat Pengelly drives a heavy rhythm, blazing their own path in the musical landscape.

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Rex Radio

Rex Radio "are a new glam rock stomping band signed to B-Unique, home of Kaiser Chiefs and The Automatic. 'A good-looking, dapper dressed bunch, they pop out their super-tight tunes in the manner of The Killers" - BBC Yorkshire

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Pull Tiger Tail

Pull Tiger Tail are Marcus (lead vocals / guitar / keyboards / stuff...), Jack (drums / backing vocals) and Davo (bass / backing vocals / keyboards / megaphone / more stuff...), three 23-year-old Londonees who grew up together in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

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Alterkicks

Alterkicks were formed through adverts in shops in Merseyside and Cheshire. Though based in Liverpool, the band are drawn from far and wide. Ditching successful careers in programming, teaching and being on the dole, Alterkicks set about learning how to be musicians late in 2003.

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The Bandits

" For the past six months Liverpool's The Bandits have had a massive A&R bounty on their heads. After a lengthy chase, the most hotly pursued British rock 'n roll band of 2002 got themselves and their centro del blanco label signed up to B-unique-Warners bros."

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Aqualung

" If anyone can claim to have had their career choice in some way chosen for them, it's Aqualung's Matt Hales; born above his parents Southampton independent record store, with a piano dominating the front room, he was writing songs by the age of 4."

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Alkaline Trio

"I dragged this lake looking for corpses / Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards / Pieces of planes and black box recorders don't lie."

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Hot Hot Heat

"Hot Hot Heat are from Victoria at the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Victoria, no major metropolitan city in its own right, is close enough to Vancouver and Seattle, and yet also far enough away to afford resident artists and musicians a bit of space."

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Har Mar Superstar

"This funky one is traversing the lands, a masterful dancer who has all the gnarly good looks of a young Ron Jeremy and the stage prowess of an Andy Kauffman" - Thrasher

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Coheed And Cambria

Seldom does a fledgling band impact the independent music scene the way Coheed And Cambria did with their debut album, 'The Second Stage Turbine Blade'.

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Mull Historical Society

"Colin's got two terrific records under his belt, of course. Mull Historical Society's bewitching 2001 debut album "Loss" marked the arrival of a major new musical talent, and was home to both the heart-bursting sugar-rush of Watching Xanadu and the soft, six-minute ache of Barcode Bypass"

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Rocket From The Crypt

" Rocket from the Crypt - 1988. The story is a common one. The son of a Portuguese fisherman rediscovers punk rock and rock and roll and moves toTijuana in order to find musicians whose instincts haven't been replaced by the sedate notion of what it takes to be successful in the world of professional music making."

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Leaves

"Who would have thought this autumn would bring us Leaves from Iceland to add to the beauty of the season?"

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Saves the Day

"SAVES THE DAY have wound their audiences into an unprecedented mass of hype, all the while maturing in their own sound and perspective. Yet contrary to their new albums title, Stay What You Are, don't expect this quintet's third full-length and Vagrant debut to be a stagnant continuation of their previous efforts. It's anything but the same."

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