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Thomas White (musician)
Thomas White (born 30 April 1984) is an English, Brighton-based musician. Along with their brother, Alex, they form the nucleus of psych-pop band The Electric Soft Parade. They have released four albums and a six-track EP. They also contributes vocals and guitar to cult Brighton super-group Brakes, and drums and bass to Restlesslist and Clowns. Besides performing solo and in their own groups, White regularly appears as a session player for, among others, Patrick Wolf, British Sea Power, Levellers and Sparks. Early life Educated at Davigdor Infants, Somerhill Juniors and Hove Park schools, they signed their first record deal (with DB Records) whilst still 16 and studying for their GCSEs. Career June 2008 saw the release of their debut solo album, ''I Dream of Black''. Recorded entirely on cassette four-track, the album was considered extremely lo-fi by both fans and critics alike. A follow-up, 'The Maximalist' ( Cooking Vinyl) arrived in March 2010. Whilst still played, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The ancient settlement of "Brighthelmstone" was documented in the ''Domesday Book'' (1086). The town's importance grew in the Middle Ages as the Old Town developed, but it languished in the early modern period, affected by foreign attacks, storms, a suffering economy and a declining population. Brighton began to attract more visitors following improved road transport to London and becoming a boarding point for boats travelling to France. The town also developed in popularity as a health resort for sea bathing as a purported cure for illnesses. In the Georgian era, Brighton developed as a highly fashionable seaside resort, encouraged by the patronage of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, who spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps; 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Wolf uses a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano, and viola. He is known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments. Wolf's styles range from electronic pop to Baroque chamber music. Biography Patrick Wolf was born in St Thomas' Hospital, South London. He attended King's College School and Bedales School. ''Lycanthropy'' and ''Wind in the Wires'' Wolf's ongoing writing and recordings brought him to the attention of Fat Cat Records, who provided him with an Atari computer and a mixing console. During the recording of ''Lycanthropy'', Wolf studied composition at Trinity College of Music for one year. ''Lycanthropy'' was released in the summer of 2003. He also made some guest appearances as a viola player with Chicks on Speed, Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett, CocoRosie, and The Hidden Cameras. The Germany-based Tomlab later relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchdown (Brakes Album)
''Touchdown'' is the third album from the Brighton-based band Brakes, released in 2009 on Fat Cat Records FatCat Records is an English independent record label based in Brighton. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk, contemporary classical, noise and post-punk. Notable artists that .... Track listing #"Two Shocks" - 3:49 #"Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)" - 2:41 #"Red Rag" - 1:33 #"Worry About It Later" - 2:03 #"Crush On You" - 3:14 #"Eternal Return" - 2:32 #"Do You Feel The Same?" - 1:33 #"Ancient Mysteries" - 1:57 harles Douglas cover#"Oh! Forever" - 4:08 #"Hey Hey" - 2:18 #"Why Tell The Truth (When It’s Easier To Lie)" - 3:32 #"Leaving England" - 3:50 #"First Dance" (hidden track) - 2:35 References Brakes (band) albums 2009 albums FatCat Records albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beatific Visions
''The Beatific Visions'' is the second album by Brakes. It was released in November 2006. The Rough Trade Shop Rough Trade is a group of independent record shops in the United Kingdom and the United States with headquarters in London. The first Rough Trade shop was opened in 1976 by Geoff Travis in the Ladbroke Grove district of West London. Travis ... named it the fifth best album of the year. Track listing #"Hold Me in the River" – 2:00 #"Margarita" – 2:06 #"If I Should Die Tonight" – 2:01 #"Mobile Communication" – 3:47 #"Spring Chicken" – 2:00 #"Isabel" – 2:26 #"Beatific Visions" – 2:53 #"Porcupine or Pineapple" – 1:04 #"Cease and Desist" – 2:27 #"On Your Side" – 2:20 #"No Return" – 4:57 References 2006 albums Brakes (band) albums Rough Trade Records albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Blood (Brakes Album)
''Give Blood'' is the debut album from the Brighton-based band, Brakes. The album was recorded onto 2" tape and mixed onto 1/4" tape in January 2005. Brakes and their 22-year-old producer, Iain Gore, also removed all computer screens from the studio for the week and all the tracks were recorded live, with the duets being recorded around one mike. The only overdubs were lap steel on "Jackson" by bassist Marc Beatty, piano by drummer Alex White and guitar by Tom White on "I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You". The album also features Matt Eaton of Actress Hands on "The Most Fun", Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit on "Jackson" and Rose, Becki and Julia of The Pipettes on "Sometimes Always". The album was voted best of 2005 by the prestigious indie music shop Rough Trade. Track listing All songs by Brakes except where noted. #"Ring a Ding Ding" #"NY Pie" #"The Most Fun" #"Heard About Your Band" #"What's in It for Me?" (Hamilton/Farmer/Eaton/Gray, arr. by Brakes) #"You'll Always Have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Need To Be Downhearted
''No Need to Be Downhearted'' is an album by The Electric Soft Parade, released in 2007. The first single was "If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know". The album was named after a lyric from The Fall's song "15 Ways" from their album ''Middle Class Revolt''. Production Unlike previous releases, the album was self-produced and recorded entirely digitally, using a demo version of ProTools, lending the album a hard, brittle sound. Compared to the relatively restrained arrangement and mix of earlier work, the album is richly layered - at times cluttered and busy - a result of the bands' trademark 'loose over-dubbing' (a technique whereby any given melody is partly or wholly improvised, then double-tracked approximately, often giving the track in question a slightly out-of-focus, seasick quality). The LP also features wide use of sampled Mellotron and MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Human Body EP
''The Human Body EP'' is an EP by The Electric Soft Parade The Electric Soft Parade are an English psychedelic pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently ..., released in 2005. The song "The Captain" is a bonus track on the U.S. release of the EP. Track listing Original release # "A Beating Heart" – 3:07 # "Cold World" – 4:07 # "Stupid Mistake" – 2:42 # "Everybody Wants" – 6:55 # "Kick in the Teeth" – 2:55 # "So Much Love" – 1:45 U.S. release # "A Beating Heart" – 3:07 # "Cold World" – 4:07 # "Stupid Mistake" – 2:42 # "Everybody Wants" – 6:55 # "The Captain" – 3:33 # "Kick in the Teeth" – 2:55 # "So Much Love" – 1:45 2005 debut EPs The Electric Soft Parade albums Truck Records EPs {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Adventure (album)
''The American Adventure'' is the second album by UK prog-pop duo The Electric Soft Parade, released in 2003 on BMG UK & Ireland. The album was seen as a departure from their previous effort ''Holes in the Wall'' (DB Records, 2002) and paved the way for their third full-length LP, ''No Need To Be Down-Hearted''. Critical reception ''The American Adventure'' received mixed reviews upon release. Jack Rabid of Allmusic noted a distinct change of sound from that of the band's debut album, ''Holes in the Wall'', but it was a change that he felt worked to good effect; "They abandon any semblance of their first LP's clockwork consistency for a bumpy ride of an LP that shifts gears from song to song, or mid-song abruptly but successfully throughout". He went on to draw comparisons with the baroque music of The Beach Boys and "'70s Pink Floyd comfortable numbness". Andrew McGregor writing for the BBC praised the uniqueness of The Electric Soft Parade sound, but found fault with the albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holes In The Wall
''Holes in the Wall'' is the debut studio album by The Electric Soft Parade, released on 4 February 2002. The album was released by db Records and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. The album features a wide array of sounds, ranging from hard-edged guitar rock (namely "Start Again" and "Why Do You Try So Hard to Hate Me"), anthemic pop (the epic "Silent to the Dark"), and somber acoustic tracks like "It's Wasting Me Away". Singles In the UK, there were several singles released. Prior to the album's release, the band issued the double A-side singles "Silent to the Dark"/"Something's Got to Give" on 30 April 2001, "Empty at the End"/"Sumatran" on 23 July 2001, and "There's a Silence" (with the B-sides "On the Wires" and "Broadcast") on 29 October 2001. "There's a Silence" reached number 52 on the UK Singles Chart. After the album's release, a new version of "Silent to the Dark" (entitled "Silent to the Dark II" and mixed by Danton Supple) was released on 4 March 2002, and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncut (magazine)
''Uncut'' is a monthly magazine based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections. A DVD magazine under the ''Uncut'' brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. The magazine was acquired in 2019 by Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies, and has been published by NME Networks since December 2021. ''Uncut'' (main magazine) ''Uncut'' was launched in May 1997 by IPC as "a monthly magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies", edited by Allan Jones (former editor of ''Melody Maker''). Jones has stated that " e idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with ''Melody Maker''. There was a publishing initiative to make the audience younger; I was getting older and they wanted to take the readers further away from me", specifically referring to the then dominant Britpop genre. According to IPC Media, 86% of the magazine's readers are mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximalist
In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an aesthetic of excess. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist motto "less is more". Literature The term ''maximalism'' is sometimes associated with postmodern novels, such as those by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great fraction of the text. It can refer to anything seen as excessive, overtly complex and "showy", providing redundant overkill in features and attachments, grossness in quantity and quality, or the tendency to add and accumulate to excess. Novelist John Barth defines literary maximalism through the medieval Roman Catholic Church's opposition between "two...roads to grace:" the ''via negativa'' of the monk's cell and the hermit's cave, and the ''via affirmativa'' of immersion in human affairs, of being in the world whether or not one is of it. Critics have aptly borrowed those terms to chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hove Park School
Hove Park School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form centre located over two sites in Hove, East Sussex, England. The school is located over two sites in Hove: The Valley campus educates pupils aged 11 to 13 and 17-19 (academic years 7, 8 and sixth form), while the Nevill campus educates pupils aged 14 to 19 (academic years 9, 10 and 11). The school offers GCSEs, NVQs and A Levels. In 2002 the school was accredited as a specialist Language College. Although the specialist schools programme has ended Hove Park School continues to specialise in languages, and offers courses in French, German, Spanish and Mandarin, as well as extra-curricular courses in Japanese and Arabic, as well as some more common languages. The school also participates in the European Union funded Interreg IVa programme, which organises regular educational and cultural exchanges with pupils from Europe. In August 2012, the school was first in Brighton and Hove for Most improved schools, being 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
