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Manchester, United Kingdom (2005 – present)

Nine Black Alps are a / quartet from Manchester, England, named after a line in a Sylvia Plath poem and fronted by Sam Forrest.

From their inception in late 2003, the band’s energetic live performances earned them a hardcore fanbase after playing for only a few months on the Manchester music scene. In 2004 the band were signed to Island Records and spent the year touring the UK and recording their first studio album with producer Rob Schnapf in Los Angeles. In 2005 Nine Black Alps toured the UK extensively, promoting the release of their debut album, Everything Is on 13th June 2005. The band supported the Kaiser Chiefs for part of their UK tour in April 2005, and later Weezer in August. The band also performed at 2005’s Glastonbury festival, T in the Park and Reading and Leeds Festival. The same year Arctic Monkeys played a gig with the band for Radio 1 at Manchester Academy. Also in 2005 Nine Black Alps performed in Japan at the winter SonicMania Festival in February, and later that year returned to play the famous Club Quattro Venues in Tokyo and Osaka. The band also spent time touring northern Europe, including France, Holland and Germany and also supported the Kaiser Chiefs in Scandinavia. During February 2006 Nine Black Alps set off for a final Everything Is UK tour with their Manchester friends The Longcut as support. This was Nine Black Alps’ largest and most successful UK tour to date, and included sold-out headline shows at Manchester Academy and an NME Shockwaves Awards Show at Hammersmith Palais.
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Final Sounds Recorded

25 Sep 2011 | from www.nineblackalps.com/news.php

The final recording session for our next album has just been completed. Acoustics were plucked, shakers were shaken and tambourines rattled throughout the day. We are now putting these …

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