Smokers Die Younger are a four-piece rock band from

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. Their debut album opens with

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and closes with

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art-rock, taking in dub,

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Career

Smokers Die Younger are part of the underground live music scene of Sheffield, which has produced groups including

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, Reverend and the Makers,

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. They featured in a television documentary about music in Sheffield aired as ''Rockbyen Sheffield'' on Danish channel DR2 and as an episode of the ''Musikbyrån'' series on Swedish channel SVT in summer 2007. Having played regularly at the Northern Sounds festival in France, they appeared on fashion mogul

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's compilation CD ''Les Musiques Que J'aime'', published by ''

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'' magazine at the end of 2006. Earlier in their musical careers, Golf had helped to found the electro-noise outfit that became

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and Trout had been instrumental in many cult British bands including A.C. Temple, Bear, Coping Saw, Kilgore Trout, Lazerboy, and Spoonfed Hybrid. Ian Turley has also played in The Ape Drape Escape, The Parallelogram, Pygmy Globetrotters and All Ashore! and is currently making solo music under his My Lo-Fi Heart moniker.

Band members

* James Goldthorpe (Golf) :

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s * Rhys Edwards:

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* Amy Dutronc :

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* Ian Turley : bass * Neil Piper :

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* Katherine Jackson :

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Founding member, and bass player Graham Booth, left the band in late 2007. Also founding member and drummer Chris Trout left the band in 2009.

Discography

*"SDY"

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Recordings. 6 December 2004 *"Five-O" / "Kermit Song"

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. 18 July 2005 *"I Spy Dry Fear"

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-only single. Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. 20 March 2006 *''X Wants The Meat'' CD album.

Recordings / Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. 27 March 2006 *"Sketch Pads"

. Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. 21 July 2008 *''Smokers Die Younger''.

& CD album. 21 September 2009

References

External links

Official band siteMyspace band site
{{Authority control Musical groups from Sheffield English rock music groups