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The Electric Soft Parade
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Brighton, United Kingdom
The Electric Soft Parade are a Brighton based indie rock band comprising siblings Alex White (guitar/vocals) and Tom White (guitar/main vocals), who are the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians who they record and perform live with; Matthew Twaites from RestLessList on bass and Mathew Priest from Dodgy on drums.
Alex and Tom formed Fixed Ascent, which became The Feltro Media (with bassist Alistair Gavan, now of diomedes), before renaming themselves The Soft Parade and signing to indie label Db in early 2001 (without Gavan). They added the ‘Electric’ part of their name shortly after their early singles began getting some attention in the rock press - they were threatened with legal action by a Doors tribute band if they did not change it. This did not halt their rise to (relative) fame at all, however, and their debut album, Holes In The Wall, was issued in February 2002. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize later that year, although they did not win the award.
Their second album, The American Adventure appeared in October 2003, now on BMG Records.
Alex and Tom have since started a side project in the form of Brakes with British Sea Power’s ex keyboardist Eamon Hamilton and Marc Beatty of The Tenderfoot. The White brothers have also been assisting up-and-coming Brighton acts such as The Pipettes and Actress Hands.
The band released the 6 track The Human Body EP on Truck Records in December 2005. The U.S. version of the EP was released in May 2006 and included bonus track The Captain. It was released on Better Looking Records.
Alex and Tom formed Fixed Ascent, which became The Feltro Media (with bassist Alistair Gavan, now of diomedes), before renaming themselves The Soft Parade and signing to indie label Db in early 2001 (without Gavan). They added the ‘Electric’ part of their name shortly after their early singles began getting some attention in the rock press - they were threatened with legal action by a Doors tribute band if they did not change it. This did not halt their rise to (relative) fame at all, however, and their debut album, Holes In The Wall, was issued in February 2002. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize later that year, although they did not win the award.
Their second album, The American Adventure appeared in October 2003, now on BMG Records.
Alex and Tom have since started a side project in the form of Brakes with British Sea Power’s ex keyboardist Eamon Hamilton and Marc Beatty of The Tenderfoot. The White brothers have also been assisting up-and-coming Brighton acts such as The Pipettes and Actress Hands.
The band released the 6 track The Human Body EP on Truck Records in December 2005. The U.S. version of the EP was released in May 2006 and included bonus track The Captain. It was released on Better Looking Records.
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Bloedworst wrote:
ESP is the name, not this crap...
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MentalImage wrote:
LET'S VOTE TO LEAVE "ESP" AS RIGHT ARTIST NAME!!!!!! I'M LISTENING TO "ESP = Electric Space Phenomenon" by Boris Blenn & Olli Wisdom!
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recitator wrote:
nice
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Cousin_Eddy wrote:
Brilliant!
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wal-in-space wrote:
hey!!...check out this interesting new band from Milano http://www.myspace.com/theflatsounds (let us know if it's good or it sucks: walfrutta@otmail.com)
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Sylviofurtado wrote:
any news on a new album?
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Kroeti wrote:
me 2!!! please fix that! -.-
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Caubboi wrote:
I'm listening to ESP not to Electric Soft Parade!!!!!!!
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jonaschrist wrote:
I just got a promo CD of Things I've Done Before which says "ESP" on the front, which is the only time I've seen that abbreviation used on any of their releases...
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FU2RH3D wrote:
One of my favourite debut albums ever ...Everything after is just a mess (with a few minor exceptions) :( Thank fuck for 'Brakes'
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Hanges wrote:
so fuckin underrated? why so little scrobbels? I was shocked cause everything else I listen to has so many..they deserve some fame ...
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apoxic wrote:
Just to prove my point further, just look how many OTHER artists uses the actual ESP alias: http://www.discogs.com/search?type=all&q=ESP&btn=Search
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apoxic wrote:
Wow, this "ESP = Electric Soft Parade" thing is extremely stupid, stop voting.
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zeemless wrote:
I don't know about you but I've never reffered to the Electric Soft Parade as ESP. ..
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fjeder wrote:
"I'm just listening to ESP which is most defnitely NOT someone called The Electric Soft Paradise. Why in the world this program erroneously credits everything tagged as ESP to just one of the alternatives carrying that abbreviation? There must be several acts whose name is ESP. Thank you" - 3
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RobieZdjecia wrote:
Fajni sa / They are cool !
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britpopkroll wrote:
Most underrated band EVER
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removable wrote:
http://www.last.fm/search?m=all&q=esp Flag it then!
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manuel_exar wrote:
OMFG! I was listening to Eric Singer Project and it was called like this, why now i listen to electric soft parade? Please Someone Fix It!
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trolllover wrote:
ESP = Boris Blenn & Olli Wisdom. Stop hi-jacking our scrobbles FFS!
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