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on drums, Chris Sharkey on guitar, and Ruth Goller on bass guitar. Tom Herbert of The Invisible played bass on their first three albums. They are part of the F-IRE Collective. Some of the members are now part of

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group Melt Yourself Down, whose debut album came out in 2013.

History

Acoustic Ladyland formed in 2001 and released their first album ''

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'', an acoustic album inspired by Jimi Hendrix songs, in 2004. Their second album, '' Last Chance Disco,'' an electric set of self-penned compositions, was released in 2005, and was the

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album of the year. On 13 September 2010 Pete Wareham announced that the band "as we know it will be no more" after a series of farewell gigs in December 2010. The band were chosen by Portishead to perform their last ever show at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival that they curated in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace. Before beginning their performance, Wareham announced that after the farewell gig the band would be known as Silver Birch.

Awards and honors

Acoustic Ladyland won the

BBC Jazz Award The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and had the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the United Kingdom (among those presenting the awards were Denis Lawson, Sue Mingus, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ian Carr, Clive James, Mike Gibbs, Julian Jo ...

for Best Band 2005. Their third album Skinny Grin was released on

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in November 2006.

Discography

* ''

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, 2004) * '' Last Chance Disco'' (Babel; Label Bleu 2005) * '' Skinny Grin'' ( V2, 2006) * ''A.L.IVE'' (V2, 2007) * '' Living With A Tiger'' (Strong & Wrong, 2009)

References

External links

Official site
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