Menace Beach (band)

	Menace Beach (band) Menace Beach are a five-piece indie rock band from Leeds, England. Ryan Needham from the band, is also a member of Yard Act. Biography Menace Beach were formed by core members Ryan Needham (currently the bass player in Leeds band Yard Act) and Liza Violet (formerly of Department M) in 2012. Although the band have a revolving cast of musicians, it has invariably included Nestor Matthews (previously of Sky Larkin), Matt Spalding and Nick Chantler (of Seize The Chair). They have also played with MJ of Hookworms, Robert Lee of Pulled Apart By Horses and Paul Draper of Mansun, who provided backing vocals and guitar on their BBC Radio 6 Music Marc Riley session. Brix Smith of The Fall and Brix & the Extricated performed on two tracks on their third album, Black Rainbow Sound. As a consequence of their notable members, the band have been called a supergroup. Menace Beach have released on Too Pure and French label Desire, but are currently signed to Memphis Industries; they relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Brix Smith Start Brix Smith (born Laura Elisse Salenger) is an American singer and guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist and a major songwriter for the English post-punk band The Fall during two stints in the band (1983-1989, and 1994-1996). Acknowledging her importance to the band, and noting she co-wrote several songs for the band's most widely acclaimed album '' This Nation's Saving Grace'' (1985), some critics break the Fall's career and evolution into the pre-Brix years, the Brix years, and the post-Brix years. She is currently the lead vocalist and guitarist with Brix & the Extricated, along with brothers Steve and Paul Hanley, both of whom were long time musicians in the Fall. She published her memoir ''The Rise, The Fall, And The Rise'' with Faber & Faber in May 2016, noting that "writing the book freed my creativity to play again." Biography Smith was raised in Los Angeles by her mother Lucy Salenger, a TV executive at CBS. Mother and daughter moved to Chicago in 1972, when Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Indie Rock Groups From Leeds Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products Music Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop Indie electronic, a music genre Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alcopop! Records Alcopop! Records is a British independent record label, run by Jack Clothier and Kevin Douch formed in 2006 when the pair lived together in East Oxford. The label works with the likes of DZ Deathrays, Johnny Foreigner, Fight Like Apes, Anamanaguchi, Peaness, TIGERCUB, Gaffa Tape Sandy, The Spook School, Nelson Can, and QI. Inception Alcopop! Records was formally created after a small loan was gambled on the Charlton vs Portsmouth match of 16 September 2006, with money for the first release and show generated from a successful bet on the match. This money was invested in a band from Yeovil called Encyclopedia, with the first single "Emily" (Alcopop001) kicking off the 2006/7 singles club (which also included the likes of Midget, data.select.party and 4 or 5 Magicians). Founder Jack pOp, in a recent interview with the Complete Music Update website, said "Alcopop! was born back in 2006 with a three figure loan from my Dad and a fuzzy idea to mix up some classic 90s indie and some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Black Rainbow Sound ''Black Rainbow Sound'' is the third studio album by English band Menace Beach. It was released on September 7, 2018 under Memphis Industries. Critical reception ''Black Rainbow Sound'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 75, based on 8 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 73 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 11 reviews. Nick Roseblade from Clash Magazine said of the album: "he album He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...shows a band in flux. The songs sounds bigger and more articulated. Menace Beach are using a larger musical palate and it mostly works, swapping the messy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lemon Memory ''Lemon Memory'' is the second studio album by English surf punk band Menace Beach. It was released on January 20, 2017, by Memphis Industries Memphis Industries is a British independent record label. Memphis Industries was established as a record label in 1998 by the brothers Ollie and Matt Jacob with the first release being Blue States' Forever EP. It is perhaps best known for The .... Track listing On 5 October 2016, the track listing was confirmed. References {{Authority control 2017 albums Memphis Industries albums Menace Beach (band) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ratworld ''Ratworld'' is the debut studio album by Leeds-based band Menace Beach (band), Menace Beach. The album was released through Memphis Industries on 19 January 2015. Critical reception ''Ratworld'' received generally favorable reviews from critics. On Metacritic, it has been given a score of 68 out of 100 based on 13 reviews. Stephen Ackroyd of DIY (magazine), DIY raved the album, saying "''Ratworld'' is that rarest of beasts—a debut album that’s got a backstory running deeper than all six seasons of ''Lost (2004 TV series), Lost'', but still sounds like it’s delivered without any requirement for effort whatsoever." Ackroyd gave the album five out of five stars. Al Horner at NME gave the album 8/10 praising their sound and musicianship, saying that Ratland "may relish a world on the brink of chaos, but this is a band with their shit together." Pitchfork Media's Evan Rytlewski gave the album 7.1/10 complimenting the band's embracing of their influences, as well as their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]