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.
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Shore Song
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Anxious Arms
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Above The Waves
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Naive
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Holes in the Wall
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No Need To Be Downhearted
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The American Adventure
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The Human Body EP
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Stefanszz
deez guys arent bad
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Headacheville
New track! 'Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn5vYtM1gws New album entitled 'IDIOTS', out June 17th.
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kenhomme
New album due in 2013!: http://electricsoftparademusic.tumblr.com/
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djnonplus
did they break up or something? No need to be downhearted was pretty close to a perfect album. would hate for that to be the end of them.
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CaptainLesgate
"Cold World", "Kick in the Teeth", "Woken By a Kiss", and "Misunderstanding" are still free to download via the Better Looking Records website: http://www.betterlookingrecords.com/downloads.php
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drahtwurst
Boring as hell, saw them yesterday as support for Noel Gallagher. Waste of time - in my opinion.
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Stretchead
... but are those full length tracks really by The Electric Soft Parade?
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Stretchead
Very talented song writers for sure
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Ryantalope
Underrated to the point that it pisses me off!
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StefanStereo
7" and download EP on July 18th, new album in October. Finally, yeah! Can't wait! BBC 6 session with interview and new songs here.
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tigercola
My favourite band ever, cannot wait for the new album! :)
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cronodizima
greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat !
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StefanStereo
Holes In The Wall was the one great album in 2002, and we should be thankful for that...
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mirrorball95
Listening to the 'Holes In The Wall' the lack of originality is just so uninspiring and on that theory I'd rather listen to the other 200 Indie/Britpop/Bland rock bands that came before them.
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dekraai
GODDAMN .. I WANT ESP.. not this crap
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ToffeeTongue
Hey if you like these, have a listen to the new Novello's single, Not So Sure. It's mint. XX
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anakin45
[Sortie / download] – The Maximalist de Thomas White le 15 mars : http://atticawebzine.free.fr/blog/?p=2197
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theweedmaker
I'm listening to ESP not to Electric Soft Parade!!!!!!! [2]
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Glarik
ESP....
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SirFreud
ESP is the name indeed
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