The Alice Band were a pop group formed in 2000 by

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and featured the artists Charity Hair from Florida, Amy Lindop from Glasgow and Audrey Nugent from Dublin. All three artists were vocalists and played guitar.

Discography

Album

The Alice Band's only album release was ''The Love Junk Store'' (2002).All Music
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and released by Instant Karma. It featured the singles "One Day at a Time", "Nothin’ On But the Radio" and "Now That You Love Me". "Nothin' On But the Radio" also featured on Disc 1 of the ''Pepsi Chart 2002'' album. The album received mixed reviews. Ian Hyland of ''

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'' gave it 7/10 and Mike Pattenden of ''

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'' gave it 3*. ''

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'' called the music "catchy country pop tunes" whilst it was received negatively by '' The Express'', "unexceptional and lightweight"; ''

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'', "Soulless stuff"; and ''

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s Paul Cole wrote that most of the album is "blandly forgettable". ''

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'' wrote that the "trio reeks of commercial calculation" and the album had "catchy if clichéd songs". *''The Love Junk Store'' (2002)

Singles

*"One Day at a Time" (2001) *"Nothing On But the Radio" (2002) *"Now That You Love Me" (2002) *"

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" (2002) (

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cover)

After the band

Amy Lindop, now known as Amy Belle,Amy Belle
Myspace webpage. and Audrey Nugent are solo artists. Charity Hair is the lead singer for The Ailerons and singer for

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References

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