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There are 3 bands with the same name.
1. Formed in Aberdeen, the band are Dave Dixon (guitar / lead vocals), Paul Curtiss (bass), Richey Wolfe (keyboards / vocals) and Johnny Wolfe (drums / vocals). They came together at the end of the 1990’s as a means to survive the trials and tribulations of school together, they quickly became the biggest band in town… “When we started out we loved Guns n’ Roses and Nirvana, but they were too complicated for us,” explains wired singer Dave Dixon. “Britpop meant nothing to us because we were detached from it… it seemed like a London thing so we turned to the simplicity of the earliest rock ‘n’ roll for inspiration. There was something quite sinister about Gene Vincent but tender too. There was an ambiguity there. Raw, exciting rock n’ roll made utter sense to us.”
2. “With his Fingernail, Adam DiAngelo made what Leonard Cohen would call the music of a “beautiful loser” — analog-electro records like A Childhood in Aeden that were chilly, earthen and ethereally pastoral while maintaining a dramatic poppiness. Here, DiAngelo’s dispensed with any gentleness, raised the stakes on the dark pop race and made a shimmying ’80s girl-group album filled with tart, tough melody, big blocks of 808 drum-machine percussion and chunky weedy synthesized chords. While faux Farfisas bop and bounce through the shuffling dance grooves of instrumentals like “Xenophilia,” it’s the cool, emotionless teasing tones of his three vocalists — Sabrina
1. Formed in Aberdeen, the band are Dave Dixon (guitar / lead vocals), Paul Curtiss (bass), Richey Wolfe (keyboards / vocals) and Johnny Wolfe (drums / vocals). They came together at the end of the 1990’s as a means to survive the trials and tribulations of school together, they quickly became the biggest band in town… “When we started out we loved Guns n’ Roses and Nirvana, but they were too complicated for us,” explains wired singer Dave Dixon. “Britpop meant nothing to us because we were detached from it… it seemed like a London thing so we turned to the simplicity of the earliest rock ‘n’ roll for inspiration. There was something quite sinister about Gene Vincent but tender too. There was an ambiguity there. Raw, exciting rock n’ roll made utter sense to us.”
2. “With his Fingernail, Adam DiAngelo made what Leonard Cohen would call the music of a “beautiful loser” — analog-electro records like A Childhood in Aeden that were chilly, earthen and ethereally pastoral while maintaining a dramatic poppiness. Here, DiAngelo’s dispensed with any gentleness, raised the stakes on the dark pop race and made a shimmying ’80s girl-group album filled with tart, tough melody, big blocks of 808 drum-machine percussion and chunky weedy synthesized chords. While faux Farfisas bop and bounce through the shuffling dance grooves of instrumentals like “Xenophilia,” it’s the cool, emotionless teasing tones of his three vocalists — Sabrina
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