Angelica were an all-girl punk rock band from Lancaster, England. Holly Ross, Brigit Colton, Claire Windsor (guitar) and Rachel Parsons (drums) formed the band while still at school in 1994 and performed until 2003. Their music was influenced by punk music mixed with surf rock overtones, and feminist lyrics.
When Do We Start Fighting... is an album by British band Seafood, released in July 2001.
Happy Days is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released 6 June 1995 by Fontana Records in the UK and Mercury Records in the US. Like its predecessor, Chrome, it was produced by Gil Norton.
Omerta were an indie rock band from Manchester, England. The band were an early forerunner of later UK Top 20 Albums act Slow Readers Club. In their own right, the band achieved considerable radio airplay and radio sessions.
Thomas Rhys Bellamy is the multi-instrumentalist responsible for contributing guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboard, trumpet, programming, samples, melodica, harmonica, percussion, toy piano, bowed guitar, decks, FX/beats, vocals and lyrics in the band The Cooper Temple Clause. He is also a keen DJ and has remixed several songs by The Cooper Temple Clause as part of his side project, Rhysmix. Following the split of the band, Bellamy has turned his full attention to remixing and djing under the Rhysmix alias. He is currently collaborating with well-known DJ Eddy Temple-Morris under the name Losers, remixing and producing music in the Bleak House, a studio in rural Berkshire that formerly housed The Cooper Temple Clause.
"Dolls " is a song by Scottish band Primal Scream. It was released as the second single from the band's eighth album, Riot City Blues, on 7 August 2006, and reached number forty on the UK Singles Chart. It also features the vocals of Alison Mosshart (VV) from the British/American rock band, The Kills.
Kerrang!/XFM UK Acoustic Sessions is the third EP by rock quartet Coheed and Cambria and it was released exclusively for iTunes music store. All tracks were recorded live and acoustic at the UK XFM studio. For some unknown duration of time, the album was removed from the iTunes Store, it has since been become available again with the except of track 2 as a partial album.
Vib Gyor was a band that was formed in Leeds, England. The name was derived from the first letters of all the colours in the rainbow, in order from the shortest to longest wavelengths.
"Stuck in My Throat" is the fourth single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben, and the first to be taken from the album Racecar Is Racecar Backwards. It was recorded at Stakeout Studios in Chobham where the band recorded the album with producer Jason Wilson. It was released in October 2003 on the Integrity Records and Xtra Mile labels, home to Million Dead, on CD and 7" vinyl, a first for the band. It received positive reviews and reached #76 in the UK chart. Zane Lowe made it his Radio 1 single of the week, but XFM said that it was 'too heavy' to play.
Kalev is a rock band that formed in 2004 based in London, England. It was characterized by serrated white noise textures, heavy beats, intertwining guitars and dark lyrics. Members include Sam Handley, Oliver Hickman (Percussion), Andrew Nicholls, Cian O'Neill (Electronics), and Ben Tarrant-Brown.
Failsafe were an English melodic rock band formed in 2000. They are based in and around Preston, England. They released three albums independently, with their third produced by Dave Eringa.
Nightnurse was an indie rock band from London, UK who had some success in the late 1990s.
They released three singles, with their second "Skirt" reaching no.11 in the UK Independent Singles Chart in February 1998. They were the first band to ever release an MP3 single 'IDF/Big Sleep' and were recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for doing so. Their debut album was recorded at Blackwing studios, but never released as the label Better Records folded in 2000.
Medium 21 were a rock band from Northampton, England. The group formed whilst studying at Northampton College in 1999.
The Race is an indie rock band formed in 2004 in Reading, UK. Likened to bands such as U2 and Arcade Fire by music magazines the NME, Drowned In Sound and The Fly. Buchanan's vocals have a strong, Cure-like quality, the band released their first long-playing album in 2006 through Shifty Disco Records. Following the album release, the band toured, including residencies at Club NME, as well as appearances at Truck Festival and Reading Festival.
The Margarets were a Norwegian pop band hailing from the island Giske near Ålesund. The band was founded in 1991 by Rune Berg and Alex Rinde (vocals). The band was named after their local postwoman, Margaret. Eventually Berg and Rinde included Ante Rune Giskeødegård, Ronnie Michael André Giskegjerde Larsen and Kai Valderhaug in the line-up, and the band played together for about four years before the members were scattered due to education and illness..
The Mighty Roars are a three piece alternative rock band from London signed to One Little Indian Records. The group won Xfm's Unsigned band competition in 2005 and released their debut album, Swine & Cockerel in 2007.
The Donde Stars are an indie rock band based in Cardiff, Wales. They consist of Luke Williams (vocals/guitar), Mathew Acreman, Tyler Rhys and Steven Rodd (drums). Since their formation in 2003 in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, the band have cemented a loyal local following and are renowned for their powerful and energetic live shows.
Interstate is the first single from Tear the Signs Down, the third studio album by Welsh alternative rock band The Automatic. The single was released on 6 December, and marks the first release through the band's own record label, Armored Records.
Starseed is a melodic hard rock band originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, now based in London, United Kingdom formed in 2000. Starseed's latest release "Peace Machine" has seen a significant rise in the band's UK popularity with the album receiving rave reviews and acclaim from the UK music industry from Kerrang Magazine to XFM.
The Pride is the fifth studio album from the band InMe. It is the first full-length album of new material to feature lead guitarist Gazz Marlow. It was released via PledgeMusic on 19 February 2012. The album was awarded KKKK by Kerrang! and 8/10 by Rock Sound magazine, and described on Twitter as "magnificent" by XFMs Rich Walters.
