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Tacky Tattoo
"Tacky Tattoo" is a song by Dundee band The View (band), The View. It was released on 2 December 2012 with "Hold On Now" as a double A-side single. It follows the singles "How Long (The View Song), How Long" and "The Clock (The View Song), The Clock" and is taken from the band's fourth album ''Cheeky for a Reason''. Track listing *Digital Download, 7" Vinyl, CD single # "Tacky Tattoo (Radio Edit)" – 3:02 # "Hold on Now (Radio Edit)" – 3:01 # "Addicted (Amy Winehouse Cover)" – 2:33 References 2011 singles The View (band) songs 2011 songs Cooking Vinyl singles Songs written by Kyle Falconer Songs written by Kieren Webster {{2000s-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The View (band)
The View are a Scottish indie rock band. They incorporate various styles such as punk, pop, alternative rock, and folk in their music. They are best known for their 2007 single "Same Jeans" which reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The band have released five studio albums since their platinum selling debut ''Hats Off to the Buskers'', which topped the UK Albums Chart in January 2007 and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize. Despite never matching this early success, they enjoy a large fanbase in their native Scotland with albums regularly topping the Scottish Albums Chart. The band also hold a reputation for their live performances with regularly sold-out tours in Scotland. The View are also regular fixtures at music festivals throughout the UK; they have played at Scotland's largest festival—T in the Park—a record eight times, with organiser Geoff Ellis saying, "The View can play every year under my watch, if they want to." History Formation and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheeky For A Reason
''Cheeky For a Reason'' is the fourth studio album by Scottish rock band the View, released on 9 July 2012. The album was promoted in Britain with a 21-date tour. Singles "How Long" was the first single to be released from the album and was made available for download on 6 June 2012. Reception Reviews of the album were mixed scoring an average 5.3/10 in music review aggregator AnyDecentMusic?. ''NME'' awarded ''Cheeky For a Reason'' 7 out of 10, commenting "Ear-wormy choruses, breezy melodies and a touch early Libs – the boys from Dundee are close to their best." Paul Mardles of ''The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...'' gave the album 3 out of 5 stars stating; "You have to admire the chutzpah of the View, whose fourth album has been described by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl is a British independent record label, based in Acton, London, England, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence. Goldschmidt remains the current owner and chairman, while Rob Collins is managing director. The company focuses on artist service-based deals where the artist retains ownership of their copyrights. History 1986–1992 Cooking Vinyl was set up in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and distribution manager Pete Lawrence, who initially ran the business as a part-time venture out of a spare room in Goldschmidt's council house in Stockwell, South London. In 1986 Cooking Vinyl recorded an impromptu live performance around a campfire at a folk festival by the singer Michelle Shocked, on a Sony Walkman with fading batteries. One of its first releases, Cooking Vinyl released the recording as The Campfire Tapes, and it sold 250,000 copies worldwide. In 1989, the company w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Falconer
Kyle Francis Falconer (born 6 June 1987) is a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of The View. Along with the other band members, Falconer hails from the Dryburgh district of Dundee. He shares songwriting responsibilities with bass guitarist Kieren Webster. In July 2018, Falconer released his debut solo album titled 'No Thank You' independently. The record reached number 1 in the Record Store Chart in the week of the release and achieved a top 40 position in the UK Album Chart. The 'No Thank You' tour commenced in August 2018, and saw Falconer play in venues across the UK with sold out shows in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Prestwick, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Falkirk, Inverness and his hometown of Dundee. Personal life When he was 16, Falconer's father died, and his mother died when Falconer was 22; he attributed some of his alcohol and drug abuse issues to these traumatic events. He has been living in Dundee with his fiancée, Laura Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieren Webster
Kieren Clark Webster (born 10 May 1986) is the bass guitarist and occasional lead vocalist for Scottish band The View; he is also the lead vocalist for band WEB. On 27 March 2020 WEB released their first single 'Haze'. Along with frontman Kyle Falconer, he writes the majority of The View's material. In 2006, he was placed 6th in NME's Cool List. He and Falconer alternate roles on some songs such as "Skag Trendy", "Gran's for Tea", "One Off Pretender", "Realisation", "Fireworks and Flowers", "Hole in the Bed" and "Cracks", with Webster taking on guitar and lead vocals and Falconer replacing him as bass guitarist and backing vocalist. He and other band members are from the Dryburgh district of Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or .... References 1986 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clock (The View Song)
The Clock or The Clocks may refer to: Film * ''The Clock'' (1917 film), a silent American film * ''The Clock'' (1945 film), an American film * ''The Clock'' (2010 film), a 24-hour art video by Christian Marclay Games * The Clock (patience), a patience or solitaire game Literature * ''The Clocks'', a 1963 novel by Agatha Christie * Clock (character), the first masked comic book crime-fighter character, initially published in 1936 Music and entertainment * "The Clock" (song), a 1953 song by Johnny Ace * "The Clock", a nickname for Haydn's Symphony No. 101 * "The Clock", a song by Paul Simon Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor whose career has spanned six decades. He is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music, both as a solo artist and as half of folk roc ... Radio and television * ''The Clock'' (radio), a dramatic anthology radio series from 1946 to 1948 * ''The Clock'' (TV series), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard (The View Song)
''Seven Year Setlist'' is a compilation album by The View, released on 17 June 2013. It charted at No. 7 in the Scottish Albums chart and #59 in the UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C .... Description The compilation is named 'Seven Year Setlist' due to the fact that the track-listing features songs that are most commonly played in the set-lists at the band's concerts (excluding the new tracks). The songs are even listed in a similar order to those in their set-lists. The compilation features several of the band's singles mixed with a couple of album tracks which feature heavily in the band's usual setlist. The album also includes 3 brand new unheard tracks - "Kill Kyle", "Dirty Magazine", and "Standard (The View song), Standard". These new songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold On Now
Hold may refer to: Physical spaces * Hold (ship), interior cargo space * Baggage hold, cargo space on an airplane * Stronghold, a castle or other fortified place Arts, entertainment, and media * Hold (musical term), a pause, also called a Fermata * "Hold" (song), a song by Vera Blue * "Hold", a song by Axium from '' Blindsided'' * "Hold", a song by Saves the Day from ''I'm Sorry I'm Leaving'' * Hold, in a card game (e.g., blackjack or poker, the cards that are kept in a hand, not those discarded and replaced * Handhold (dance), a type of hold in dance * Hold (novel) a novel by Michael Donkor Law * Legal hold, a legal ruling or official declaration * Secret hold, a parliamentary procedure Sports * Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher * Climbing hold, on climbing walls * Grappling hold, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts Technology * Hold (aviation), a manoeuvre designed to delay an aircraft already in flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Long (The View Song)
"How Long" is the first single released by Dundee band The View from their fourth album ''Cheeky for a Reason''. The song was first announced by ''NME'' on 27 May 2012 as the first single to be released on The Views anticipated new album ''Cheeky for a Reason''. The song was officially made available for download from iTunes on 6 June 2012, a whole month before the anticipated release date. The music video for the song was released on 13 June 2012. The video, written and directed by Red and starring Martin Compston caused controversy in the media on its release, due to its assumed subject matter and further claims from one of the cast that the content for the video was never disclosed to her. However, the bands management, record label and producers of the video later proved that all cast were given a detailed treatment, that disclosed the concept of the video prior to filming. Red, the writer and director of the video said of the idea, "The concept becomes complicated when I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Singles
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The View (band) Songs
The View may refer to: Television * ''The View'' (talk show), an American morning talk show on ABC, broadcast since 1997 * ''The View'' (Irish TV programme), an Irish television arts programme, broadcast from 1999 to 2011 Music * ''The View'' (album), a 1993 album by Chad Wackerman *The View (band), a Scottish indie rock band * "The View" (song), a 2011 song by Lou Reed and Metallica *''The View'', a 1999 album by Eureka Farm *''The View'', a 2003 EP by Immaculate Machine *"The View", a 2004 song by Modest Mouse from ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' *"The View", a 2019 song by Sara Evans and the Barker Family Band from '' The Barker Family Band'' *"The View", a 2021 song by Stray Kids from ''Noeasy ''Noeasy'' (stylized in all caps) is the second studio album by South Korean boy band Stray Kids. It was released on August 23, 2021, through JYP Entertainment, nine months after its predecessor, Japanese extended play '' All In'' (2020) and ele ...'' See also * View (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
