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Summer Sundae
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Summer Sundae was an annual music festival held in Leicester, England which initially focused on indie, alternative, and local music. The festival began as a one-dayer in 2001 and grew year on year since then, adding first one and then two campsites, and later involved five stages. It was hosted by the citys De Montfort Hall, both in the hall itself, and over four stages in the halls grounds. A section of the park was fenced off for camping during the weekend of the festival, the festival was for a time sponsored in part by the digital radio station BBC6 Music, which in return had exclusive broadcasting rights. The festival usually took place in August and grew from two stages to five over the course of six years, in 2005 the festival welcomed over 70 artists, both well-known and established bands, and local bands from around the East Midlands. This extended to over 100 bands, and the first ever sold-out festival in 2006, in addition, The Musician Stage was a tent featuring mainly acoustic and roots music at times when the Outside stage is quiet, and The Rising Stage featured new and local talent. In 2012, the Musician Stage and the Rising Stage were replaced by two new spaces in The Village, named the Into the Wild stage and the Watering Hole following the festivals safari theme. In March 2008 the festival put on a Taste of Summer Sundae gig to provide a flavour of the expected to play the main festival. The 2012 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 17–19 August, the 2011 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 12–14 August 2011. The main festival line-up was as follows, Outdoor stage Indoor stage Rising stage Musician stage The comedy stage featured Simon Evans, Gary Delaney, Jon Richardson, the 2010 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 13–15 August 2010. The main festival line-up was as follows, Outdoor stage Indoor stage Rising stage Musician stage The 2009 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place 14–16 August 2009, skint & Demoralised, Beth Jeans Houghton and Jeremy Warmsley played sets in the Phrased & Confused tent. The 2008 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 8 and 10 August 2008, the main festival line-up was follows, Outdoor stage Indoor stage Rising stage Musician stage The 2007 Summer Sundae Weekender festival took place between the 10 and 12 August 2007. The line-up was as follows, Outdoor stage Indoor stage Firebug Rising stage The Musician Stage The 2006 Summer Sundae took place between 11 and 13 August 2006. The line-up was as follows Outdoor stage Indoor stage Jim Beam Rising stage The Musician Stage The 2005 Summer Sundae took place between 12 and 14 August 2005, sundays bill included Ian McCulloch, Aqualung, Durutti Column, Pernice Brothers, Cosmic Rough Riders and Richard Hawley. The finale was a Concert for a Landmine Free World featuring Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Joan Baez and Chrissie Hynde sharing the stage. The 2002 Summer Sundae Festival took place between the 6th and 7 July 2002 Highlights of the festival included I Am Kloot, Beth Orton, there was a strong Americana influence including the Be Good Tanyas, Calexico and The Handsome Family. Official Website eFestivals festival coverage Summer Sundae 2010 photos from BBC Radio Leicester
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Leeds
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Leeds /liːdz/ is a city in West Yorkshire, England. Historically in Yorkshires West Riding, the history of Leeds can be traced to the 5th century when the name referred to an area of the Kingdom of Elmet. The name has applied to many administrative entities over the centuries. It changed from being the appellation of a small borough in the 13th century, through several incarnations. In the 17th and 18th centuries Leeds became a centre for the production. During the Industrial Revolution, Leeds developed into a mill town, wool was the dominant industry but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing. From being a market town in the valley of the River Aire in the 16th century Leeds expanded and absorbed the surrounding villages to become a populous urban centre by the mid-20th century. The city has the third largest jobs total by local authority area with 480,000 in employment and self-employment at the beginning of 2015. Leeds is also ranked as a world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Leeds is served by four universities, and has the fourth largest student population in the country and has the fourth largest urban economy. After London, Leeds is the largest legal and financial centre in the UK, with over 30 national and international banks located in the city. Leeds is also the UKs third largest manufacturing centre with around 1,800 firms and 39,000 employees, the largest sub-sectors are engineering, printing and publishing, food and drink, chemicals and medical technology. Outside of London, Leeds has the third busiest railway station, Public transport, rail and road communications networks in the region are focused on Leeds and there are a number of twinning arrangements with towns and cities in other countries. The name Leeds derives from the old Brythonic word Ladenses meaning people of the fast-flowing river and this name originally referred to the forested area covering most of the Brythonic kingdom of Elmet, which existed during the 5th century into the early 7th century. An inhabitant of Leeds is locally known as a Loiner, a word of uncertain origin, the term Leodensian is also used, from the citys Latin name. Leeds developed as a town in the Middle Ages as part of the local agricultural economy. Before the Industrial Revolution it became a centre for the manufacture of woollen cloth. Leeds handled one sixth of Englands export trade in 1770, growth, initially in textiles, was accelerated by the building of the Aire and Calder Navigation in 1699 and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1816
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Indie rock
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Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Originally used to independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. In the mid-1980s, the term began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s, during the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term alternative lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term indie rock became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status, by the end of the 1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped-down. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of bands was being referred to as indie landfill. The term indie rock, which comes from independent, describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released, the influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, post-punk and country. Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes, in fact, there is an everlasting list of genres and subgenres of indie rock. Many countries have developed a local indie scene, flourishing with bands with enough popularity to survive inside the respective country. However, there are still indie bands that start off locally, Indie rock has been identified as a reaction against the macho culture that developed in alternative rock in the aftermath of Nirvanas success. However, Cortney Harding pointed out that this sense of equality is not reflected in the number of women running indie labels. The BBC documentary Music for Misfits, The Story of Indie pinpoints the birth of indie as the 1977 self-publication of the Spiral Scratch EP by Manchester band Buzzcocks, Indie pop and indie were originally synonymous. In the mid-1980s, indie began to be used to describe the music produced on post-punk labels rather than the labels themselves. The indie rock scene in the US was prefigured by the rock that dominated college radio playlists. In the United States, the term was associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of the Pixies, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr
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Post-punk revival
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By the end of the decade, most of the bands had broken up, moved on to other projects or were on hiatus, although some bands returned to recording and touring in the 2010s. In the early 2000s, a new group of bands played a stripped down. They were variously characterised as part of a rock, new wave or post-punk revival. Influences ranged from blues, through new wave to grunge. The music ranged from the tracks of bands like Liars to the melodic pop songs of groups like the Sounds. There was an emphasis on rock authenticity that has seen as a reaction to the commercialism of MTV-oriented nu metal, hip hop. Because the bands came from across the globe, cited influences and adopted differing styles of dress. For historian of garage rock Eric James Abbey, these were diverse bands that appropriated, or been given, the label garage to gain a degree of credibility. There were attempts to revive garage rock and elements of punk in the 1980s and 1990s, the Detroit rock scene included the Von Bondies, Electric Six, the Dirtbombs and the Detroit Cobras, while New Yorks included Radio 4, Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Rapture. Billy Childish and The Buff Medways from the United Kingdom, the Noise Conspiracy from Sweden, New wave was a term adopted in the aftermath of punk rock to describe a generation of bands who generally pursued a more commercially successful punk-influenced sound. Major acts included Talking Heads, Devo, the Cars, the Go-Gos, the Pretenders, Elvis Costello and skinny tie bands like Blondie, in the mid-1990s, notable bands in this vein included Six Finger Satellite, Brainiac and Elastica. American band Satisfact was also considered as an example of the new wave revival sound. Music critic Simon Reynolds noted that bands like the Rapture and Franz Ferdinand were influenced by the more angular strain of post-punk, particularly such as Wire. Others identified this movement as another wave of garage rock revivalism, with NME in 2003 designating it a new rock revolution. According to music critic Jim DeRogatis, the Strokes, the White Stripes, both the Strokes and the White Stripes obtained their initial commercial success in the UK, before achieving recognition in the US and elsewhere. They were christened by the media as the The bands, and dubbed the saviours of rock n roll, prompting Rolling Stone magazine to declare on its September 2002 cover, Rock is Back. The attention in the press in turn led to accusations of hype, according to Simon Reynolds, apart from maybe the White Stripes, none could really be described as retro. In the wake of this attention existing acts like Yeah Yeah Yeahs were able to sign to major record labels, from the UK were Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park, Editors, the Cribs, the Libertines, the Fratellis, Razorlight and Kaiser Chiefs
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Cooking Vinyl
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Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence. Goldschmidt remains the current owner and managing director, the company is based in Acton, London. Established in 1986, Cooking Vinyl has developed a reputation as one of Europes most innovative independent labels, key to the companys longevity is its emphasis on artist-driven deals with its pioneering introduction of bespoke services-only contracts that claim no stake in artists copyrights. The first such deal drawn up in 1993 with Billy Bragg who has since re-signed to the label a total of seven times, as for recent years,2015 and 2016 were remarkable for the label, described by Uncut magazine “a template for modern independent record companies”. After topping the charts in 2015 with The Prodigy’s “The Day is My Enemy”, both records qualified for a silver disc in the UK. This same year, Richard Ashcroft reached the UK top 3 with “These People”, in these years, Cooking Vinyl Australia notched up a number 1 album with Parkway Drive, and top 5 entries with City and Colour and Kate Miller-Heidke. In 1986 Cooking Vinyl famously recorded a live performance around a campfire at a folk festival by the singer Michelle Shocked. One of its first releases, Cooking Vinyl released the recording as The Campfire Tapes, as well as its more traditional royalty agreements, Cooking Vinyl is widely regarded as a pioneer of ‘artist services’ deals where the artist retains ownership of the copyrights. The company’s first such deal came in 1993 with a reissue of Billy Braggs Back To Basics compilation, since then, Bragg has re-signed to Cooking Vinyl a total of six times, most recently in 2013 for the release of studio album Tooth And Nail. Cooking Vinyl has consistently been in the forefront of the digital revolution and it was the first European label to do a deal with the MP3 download site eMusic and the first to enter negotiations with the peer to peer file-sharing company Kazaa. In 2005 Cooking Vinyl set up its own distribution company, Uploader. Who were in turn bought by The Orchard, Cooking Vinyl has had international success from the start with Michelle Shocked The Texas Campfire Tapes selling 250,000 worldwide. Other notable releases include the Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions and Ryan Adams debut solo studio album Heartbreaker in 2000, the album was funded through a high-profile Kickstarter campaign that raised over $1.2 million in 30 days. Another notable campaign from that year was the release of Marilyn Manson’s Born Villain under a partnership between Mansons own label Hell, etc. and Cooking Vinyl. The album was a success charting at #5 in Germany, #10 in the US. Across the rest of Europe the album peaked at #4 in Austria, #6 in France, in the UK Manson reached #14 in the Official Albums Chart and #1 in the UK Rock Albums Chart. Cooking Vinyl is noted for its long relationships with many of its artists, the Pixies Charles Thompson was signed in 2000 and has had 17 releases to date with the label as Frank Black and Black Francis. Since 1994, former Doll By Doll man Jackie Leven has had 23 releases, RED, the Sony Music UK artist and label services division, announced the acquisition of Essential Music and Marketing in March 2016
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Dance to the Radio
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Dance To The Radio is an independent label in Leeds, UK. It was named after the refrain of the Joy Division song Transmission, the label launched with the release of a compilation album Dance To The Radio, Leeds at an eponymous launch event in Leeds in March 2005. The label subsequently released some highly sought after 7 singles by the likes of iLiKETRAiNS, The Pigeon Detectives, Yes Boss, Napoleon IIIrd, This Et Al and ¡Forward, Russia. They have been featured a number of times in NME, Drowned in Sound and their first full scale single release was Twelve by ¡Forward, Russia. Which reached number 36 in the UK Singles Chart and their second release, again by ¡Forward, Russia. Was a re-release of limited edition debut single Nine which also became a top 40 hit, since these, three more ¡Forward, Russia. Singles have been released, Eighteen, Nineteen and Dont Be A Doctor the latter of which was a limited White Label Release, on top of this the band have had 3 consecutive top 20 singles since March 2007. In 2008 the label released the second album Emergency which achieved Gold status in sales. Other early releases include singles from Yes Boss, Sky Larkin, Shut Your Eyes And Youll Burst Into Flames, Bobby Cook, the label have released EPs for bands like iLiKETRAiNS and Napoleon IIIrd, a number of compilations, and numerous albums. In 2009 the label launched a new series of compilation 12 records entitled 4x12, amongst the bands appearing on this series of records included Pulled Apart by Horses, Das Racist, Paul Thomas Saunders, Holy State, Bear Hands & Suckers. The 3rd in the series received critical acclaim from NME, Drowned in Sound and this was followed by releases in 2010 for Elinor Rose Dougall and Leeds post-punk-noise band Holy State. 2011 saw the release of The Pigeon Detectives third album Up Guards, the fourth Pigeon Detectives record We Met at Sea was licensed by Dance to the Radio to Cooking Vinyl for release in 2013, again reaching the UK Top 30. Since 2007 Dance To The Radio have hosted a stage at Leeds Festival, the stage is hosted on the Thursday evening and is the only stage with live music on this day
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Mute Records
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Mute Records is a British record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. It featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Inspiral Carpets, Moby, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Wire, Yeasayer, and Yazoo. During 1978, Daniel Miller began recording music using synthesisers under the name The Normal and he recorded the tracks T. V. O. D. and Warm Leatherette, and distributed them through Rough Trade Shops under the label name Mute Records. The label was formed initially just to release the one single, T. V. O. D. /Warm Leatherette became a cult hit ensuring the future of the label. Warm Leatherette was later covered by Grace Jones and Chicks on Speed, after meeting Robert Rental, Miller began recording and playing live as Robert Rental & The Normal. In 1979 the band went on tour supporting the punk band Stiff Little Fingers, in 1980, Miller released the single, Kebab-Träume, by the German band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, who had recently moved to London. The bands 1980 album, Die Kleinen und die Bösen, was the first album released by the new label, the album had the catalogue prefix STUMM, a play on the record labels name, meaning mute in German. This prefix would continue to be used through most of the labels album catalogue, also in 1980, Miller recorded and released the cover single, Memphis Tennessee, under the name Silicon Teens. The band was Miller’s realisation of a dream Mute Records group, in mid-1980, Mute Records released the Silicon Teens album, titled Music For Parties. Around this time the artist Fad Gadget had begun recording new demos and this was released as a single in 1980, followed by the next single Rickys Hand and the album Fireside Favourites recorded at Blackwing Studios. September 1980 saw the release of the double-holed, multi-speed 7 single by Non & Smegma, Boyd Rice went on to release several more recordings with Mute Records. After touring with Daniel Miller as Robert Rental & The Normal, Robert Rental released his only Mute Records single, Double Heart, a rare, remaining trace of this late electronic music pioneer. Miller approached Depeche Mode in 1980, after seeing them perform in London, wanting them to record a single for his label and their loyalty to Mute was reciprocated by the label’s rapid expansion to cope with their success. In defiance of the recording labels predictions of failure, Depeche Mode became a successful charting band worldwide. The bands consistency was unbroken even by the departure of principal songwriter Vince Clarke, Martin Gore took over the main songwriting role, opening the band up to different influences and sustaining their creativity as a band. Mute continued to other experimental artists, such as NON, releasing an album of Boyd Rices pre-NON recordings. 1982 began with the release of the 12-inch single, Rise, by Boyd Rice, Fad Gadget released his third album for the label, titled Under the Flag, influenced by the current Falklands War and the feeling of being British in the most unseemly of times. The album spawned the singles For Whom the Bells Toll and Life on the Line, Mute Records big commercial success of 1982 was the band Yazoo, the duo of Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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Faux Cyrillic
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Faux Cyrillic, pseudo-Cyrillic, pseudo-Russian or faux Russian typography is the use of Cyrillic letters in Latin text to evoke the Soviet Union or Russia. It is a type of mimicry typeface, an early example was the logo for Norman Jewisons film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming and more recently the logo for Sacha Baron Cohens film Borat. In the music industry, the Simple Minds album Empires and Dance, letters are substituted regardless of phonetic matching. For example, R and N in RUSSIAN may be replaced by Cyrillic Я and И, giving ЯUSSIAИ. Other examples include Ш for portraited E, Ц for U, Я/Г for R/backwards and backwards and upside-down L, Ф for O, Д for A, Б, Ь, or Ъ for B/b, З, Э, or Ё for E, Ч or У for Y. Outside the Russian alphabet, Џ can act as a substitute for U, Ғ for F, Ә or Є for E, Ө for O, Һ for H, Ћ for Th and the symbol ☭ for G. This effect is restricted to text set in all caps. In Cyrillic typography, most upright lower case letters resemble smaller upper case letters, cursive Cyrillic upper and lower case letters are more differentiated. Cyrillic letter-forms were derived from 10th-century Greek, but the forms have more closely resembled those in the Latin alphabet since Peter the Greats civil script reform of 1708. The letters А, В, Е, Ѕ*, І*, Ј*, К, М, Н, О, Р, С, Т, Ү*, Ғ*, Ѵ*, and Х are strongly homoglyphic to Latin letters, to the point that their substitution may not be noticed, unlike those listed above. If compatibility issues arise that limit mixing of scripts, these can be used with faux Cyrillic letters in lieu of their Latin counterparts, in addition, C may be replaced by Archaic Ҁ. Homoglyph IDN homograph attack Volapük encoding vice versa of Faux Cyrillic, i. e. ҒДԞЄ ЯЦSSЇДИ GЄЙЭЯДҐФЯ - Make english look sort of like Russian, by using Cyrillic letter forms
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Brudenell Social Club
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The Brudenell Social Club, is a social club in Hyde Park, Leeds, England, which is best known as a venue for live music. While being an organisation, it retains the community atmosphere of its origins as a working mens club. The club is split into two areas—a 400 capacity concert room and a bar area and games room section, which occasionally holds gigs alongside the concert room. The club was formed in 1913 by local businessmen, who built a wooden clubhouse at 33 Queens Road which opened on 2 December of the same year. After falling into disrepair, this structure was replaced by the present brick building in 1978. The Clark family took on the license in 1992 and began to put on gigs after a shift in the makeup of Hyde Parks population caused by more students moving into the area. Initial shows were focused around the local DIY music scene, from 2004 to 2005, noise complaints forced the club to briefly abandon gigs. After a period of fundraising, soundproof firedoors were purchased and installed, a few years later, in 2007, the Brudenell moved from being a members club to being a publicly open, licensed place that runs as a social enterprise and reinvests its money. However, after this failed to come to fruition, a clubhouse was built at 33 Queens Road. Subsequently, this opened on 2 December 1913. The original wooden structure had fallen into disrepair by 1978 and was replaced by the present brick building, the Brudenell Social Club reopened on 30 November 1978, with an official opening taking place on 7 December. Gigs were initially staged by the likes of Mike Jolly, founder of the Holbeck-based Cloth Cat music charity, the Termite Club also ran at the venue, hosting noise rock events. During the 1995 Hyde Park riots, the club staged a lock-in as local taxis were unable to operate. The Brudenell later hosted initial meetings by the group set up Unity Day. The Clarks son, Nathan, took over the running of the club in 2004 after his father fell ill, in 2004–2005 the Brudenell was placed on a final warning following noise complaints and had to stop putting on shows. The club ran quizzes and Bullseye nights, sold badges and, in July 2005, the success of this fundraising activity prompted an application for a National Lottery grant to purchase a new public address system for the concert room. The building itself has been paid for, which means that the club does not have to worry about rent increases. The club is split into two areas—a 400 capacity concert area to the left of the doors, and a bar area and games room
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Live at Leeds
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Live at Leeds is the first live album by the English rock band The Who. Since its initial reception, Live at Leeds has been cited by music critics as the best live rock recording of all time. By the end of the 1960s, particularly after releasing Tommy in May 1969, according to biographer Chris Charlesworth, a sixth sense seemed to take over, leading them to a kind of rock nirvana that most bands can only dream about. The band were rehearsing and touring regularly, and Townshend had settled on using the Gibson SG as his touring instrument. He began using Hiwatt amplifiers that allowed him to get a variety of simply by adjusting the guitars volume level. Townshend later confirmed the tapes were indeed burnt in his back garden, two shows were consequently scheduled, one at the University of Leeds and the other in Hull, for the express purpose of recording and releasing a live album. The Leeds concert was booked and arranged by Simon Brogan, who became an assistant manager on tour with Jethro Tull. The cover was designed by Beadrall Sutcliffe and resembled that of a bootleg LP of the era and it contains plain brown cardboard with The Who Live At Leeds printed on it in plain blue or red block letters as if stamped on with ink. The first 500 copies included a copy of the contract for the Who to play at the Woodstock Festival, the label was handwritten, and included instructions to the engineers not to attempt to remove any crackling noise. This is probably a reference to the clicking and popping on the version which was from John Entwistles bass cable. In a contemporary review for The New York Times, music critic Nik Cohn praised Live at Leeds as the definitive hard-rock holocaust and he felt that Live at Leeds functions simply as a document of the formal commercial end of the first great stage of great career. Mojo magazine wrote that the future for rock as it became, in all its pomp and circumstance, steven Hyden, writing for PopMatters, said that it is not only the best live rock ‘n’ roll album ever, but the best rock album period. ever. Live at Leeds has been cited as the best live recording of all time by The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, the BBC, Q magazine. In 2003, it was ranked number 170 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the venue at which it was recorded, the University Refectory, was named a national landmark, commemorated with a blue plaque. On 17 June 2006, over 36 years after the original concert, Kershaw stated the gig was among the most magnificent I have ever seen. A Rolling Stone readers poll in 2012 ranked it the best live album of all time, the original LP was released on 16 May 1970 in stereophonic format. The album was reissued on CD in 1985 by MCA in the US, for the remix, new vocal overdubs from Daltrey, Townshend and Entwistle were recorded to address occasional flaws in the original tapes or performances. Fortune Teller and Young Man Blues are R&B tunes that were a part of the Whos stage repertoire at the time
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NME
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New Musical Express is a British music journalism magazine published since 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. It started as a newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s. An online version of NME, NME. com, was launched in 1996 and it became the worlds biggest standalone music site, with over seven million users per month. With newsstand sales falling across the UK magazine sector, the paid circulation in the first half of 2014 was 15,830. In 2013, the list of NMEs The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, NME magazine was relaunched in September 2015 as a nationally distributed free publication. NMEs headquarters are in Southwark, London, England, the brands editor-in-chief is Mike Williams, who replaced Krissi Murison in 2012. The paper was established in 1952, the Accordion Times and Musical Express was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn, for the sum of £1,000, just 15 minutes before it was due to be officially closed. It was relaunched as the New Musical Express, and was published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the US magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart, the first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve sourced by the magazine itself from sales in regional stores around the UK. The first number one was Here in My Heart by Al Martino, during the 1960s the paper championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The NME circulation peaked under Andy Gray, Editor 1957–1972, with a figure of 306,881 for the period from January to June 1964, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were frequently featured on the front cover. These and other artists appeared at the NME Poll Winners Concert. The concert also featured a ceremony where the winners would collect their awards. The NME Poll Winners Concerts took place between 1959 and 1972, from 1964 onwards they were filmed, edited and transmitted on British television a few weeks after they had taken place. The latter part of the 1960s saw the chart the rise of psychedelia. During this period some sections of pop music began to be designated as rock, in early 1972 the paper found itself on the verge of closure by its owner IPC. Alan Smith was made editor and in 1972 was told by IPC to turn things around quickly or face closure, according to The Economist, the New Musical Express started to champion underground, up-and-coming music. NME became the gateway to a more rebellious world
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The Research
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The Research were a band from Wakefield, England. The members were, Russell The Disaster Searle, Georgia Lashbrook and their songs - typically about themes of love, loss and fear - are notable for their plaintive lyrics and vocal harmonies. In February 2006 they released their album, Breaking Up, via At Large Recordings. Following the albums release, the band parted company with At Large, the Old Terminal, and its accompanying single I Think Shes The One I Love, were released in autumn 2008. The band also announced that they had recruited a lead guitarist named Johnny White, the band played several concerts in this configuration before White left the band and was not replaced. This was followed by several blog posts clarifying aspects of the note, I Would Like To Be Forgiven, one of the tracks on The Old Terminal is a collaboration with Gary Jarman, of fellow Wakefield band The Cribs. The band split up in 2008, Shes Not Leaving - UK #73 Cmon Chameleon / I Love You But
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The Sunshine Underground
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The Sunshine Underground are an English alternative dance band based in Leeds. The band are originally from Telford and Shrewsbury, and formed while studying at New College Telford, in 2005 the band signed to City-Rockers label and began work on what was to become their debut album Raise the Alarm. Work was completed in May 2006 and was released on 28 August 2006 on City-Rockers/Sony. The main bulk of the album was recorded in two weeks at The Dairy with Producers Steve Dubb and Seggs while the rest was recorded in studios in London with Rob Harder. Put You in Your Place was their 7 debut single, which was released on 18 July 2005 and had limited to 1,000 copies. The single had been re-released on CDS and 7 Single and is the bands most successful single to date, following the release of the album the band embarked on several UK and European tours. Festival appearances in the UK in 2007 included Glastonbury Festival, T in the Park and Reading, the success of the album in the UK was mirrored in Japan which saw the band complete two Japanese tours and various festival appearances including Summersonic and British Anthems. Also in 2007 the band were chosen by the NME to be part of the NME New Rave tour alongside Klaxons, CSS and New Young Pony Club. Although the band were active on the live scene, they dedicated most of their time from 2008-2010 writing what was to become their second studio album. Live achievements during this period included the bands first appearance at V Festival, the band recorded a song with FC Kahuna named From The City To The Sea which was made public and free for download in February 2009. The song takes a sample from the Aphex Twin track Windowlicker, on 3 November 2009 The Sunshine Underground released a 5 Track EP called Everything, Right Now. The EP featured the track Coming to Save You which was to eventually be included on their second album, the band released the follow-up to Raise The Alarm on 1 February 2010 named Nobodys Coming to Save You released on City Rockers/EMI. To coincide with the release of the album the band embarked on a tour of the UK. Later that year the band went on to play at Reading and Leeds festival, in 2011 the band traveled to Mexico and China to play several dates before arriving in Austria for the Annual Snowbombing festival. On 21 February 2011, Bass player Daley Smith left the band, the group announced in early 2012 that they would be touring for two weeks in mid April to road-test material for their as yet titled third album. The tour saw the play a number of new songs, tentatively named The Same Old Ghosts, Its Only You, Neutralise, Add Up To Nothing. The Sunshine Underground returned on 19 May 2014 with their third album. The album was preceded by first single Dont Stop, luminescent released Friday 30th September 2016
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We Are Scientists
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We Are Scientists is a New York City-based indie rock band that formed in Berkeley, California, in 2000. It consists of guitarist and vocalist Keith Murray and bass guitarist Chris Cain, the bands breakthrough success came with their first studio album, With Love and Squalor, which sold 100,000 copies in the first six months. Their second album, Brain Thrust Mastery, charted at number 11 in the UK album chart, album three, Barbara, was released in June 2010. Their fourth album, TV en Français, was released on March 3,2014 and their fifth album Helter Seltzer was released on April 22,2016. They have also starred in their own series of television shorts, Steve Wants His Money. We Are Scientists members Keith Murray and Chris Cain met in 1997 at Pomona College, in Claremont, CA, in early 2000, after graduating and moving to Berkeley, CA, they hatched the idea for the band. Their roommate and fellow Pomona College alum Scott Lamb was a co-founder, Keith was on drums, though he also sang roughly half the songs, not unlike Phil Collins in Genesis. From the pivotal 90s band Capn Jazz and they have also given the following story, they rented a truck from U-Haul. When they returned it, the inspector, after looking them up and down and assessing their wardrobe, the band moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2001 and began recording their debut album on November 10,2001. The band finished recording in January 2002, completing 12 tracks - two of which credit former member Scott Lamb. The albums title was announced on March 14,2002 on the official website as Safety, Fun. Due to issues with setting up their own label, it wasnt until June that the band were able to release the record, the summer saw them reunite with original vocalist Scott Lamb. Later Bitching. was made available online on January 16,2003, the EP was released on November 26,2004. On January 11,2005 the band began the recording of their second album in Los Angeles with Ariel Rechtshaid. Having recorded the album, the decided to sign to Virgin Records to handle to release. On May 15,2005, the first single from the album was aired in the UK, Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt, Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt was released later on June 27 at the same time as their own headline Summer 2005 UK tour. In July the band shot a video for their second single, The Great Escape. In December 2005 the band made their U. S, in January 2007 Murray announced that he had begun working on the bands follow-up to With Love and Squalor in Brooklyn, New York, previewing Impatience and Spoken For later that month
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The Automatic
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The Automatic, are a Welsh rock band. Mullen joined after the departure of Alex Pennie who provided synthesiser, percussion, the members first met at primary school, in the early 1990s, and formed a band at the age of 13. Alex Pennie was asked to join five years later, originally known as White Rabbit, up until February 2005 when they renamed themselves The Automatic because they believe that music is the antidote to the automatic life. After recording their two-track demo featuring rough versions of Monster and Rats in 2005 they signed a record deal with B-Unique Records in their gap year. The band went around the country between touring promoting the single and the album with instore signings. The Raoul EP, a collection of b-sides and songs which didnt make the album was released on 17 July 2006. The single peaked at No.32 in the UK after its release on 18 September 2006, surrounding this the band played various dates around Europe, the single charted slightly higher than previously instead the single charted at No.32 in the UK single chart. After extensive UK touring the band released Not Accepted Anywhere in the United States and this preceded their attendance at the Warped Tour,2007 and was opened with their first U. S. single, Monster which was released on 14 May 2007. After the Warped Tour and release of the album embarked on their first USA Tour, before returning to the United Kingdom for their show of the Not Accepted Anywhere era. On 18 September 2007 it was announced by The Automatic that Alex Pennie had left The Automatic. In November, NME reported that the band have had no contact with Pennie since the split. Hawkins has exchanged MySpace messages with Pennie however, reporting that he is doing ok, Alex Pennie has more recently stated that he is returning to the UK to start work on a new project. This was later announced by Pennie through his Myspace profile to be Decimals, after the albums release the band completed two UK album tours in the remaining months of 2008, before heading back into studio to work on new tracks. At The Asylum in Birmingham, the band confirmed Magazines to be the single from This Is A Fix originally stating a release would happen in February 2009. The Automatic along with Get Cape, frank Turner and My Vitriol were announced in early 2009 to be part of the final show at the London Astoria on Wednesday 14 January, a charity show for Love Music Hate Racism and Jail Guitar Doors. Since the start of 2009 the band working in studio on new tracks. The band fully recorded 4 of the new tracks in early April, New material was further teased in August through to October, with photos depicting the band working with a violinist and cellist, song title Parasol was also revealed. On 28 September 2009, the band announced a string of UK dates for November, instead, the band would self finance their third record, allowing for complete creative control, Armoured Records was founded, with a distribution partnership with EMI
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The Long Blondes
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The Long Blondes were a five-piece English indie rock band formed in Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2003 by Dorian Cox, Reenie Hollis, Emma Chaplin, Kate Jackson and Screech Louder. After several critically acclaimed singles, they released their album, Someone to Drive You Home. Their second album, Couples, was produced by Erol Alkan, the band was formed in 2003 in Sheffield, United Kingdom. All the members were attending, or had attended university in the city, the following quote appeared on their website and served as an introduction to the Long Blondes, Our shared influences include The Mael Brothers, Marx Brothers and The Bewlay Brothers. We do not listen to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and we chose an instrument each and learnt to play it. The band have stated that the inspiration for The Long Blondes was to form a fantasy pop group, Nico, Nancy Sinatra, Diana Dors. Sexy and literate, flippant and heartbreaking all at once, singer Kate Jackson was inspired by bands with front women like Siouxsie and the Banshees and Blondie. In July 2004, The Long Blondes released their debut single New Idols on the local Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation label and this was followed by singles Autonomy Boy and Giddy Stratospheres. In 2005, they released singles, Appropriation and Separated By Motorways. These releases were met with a critical reaction and growing media attention. Still unsigned, in February 2006 the band were recipients of the NME Philip Hall Radar Award, further adding to their reputation, the band were named by The Guardian and Vogue as the best unsigned band in the UK. On 13 April 2006 they signed to Rough Trade Records and began recording their album over the summer with Steve Mackey. The album was preceded by the singles Weekend Without Makeup in July and Once and Never Again, the song was named the 15th best track of 2006 by NME. Someone to Drive You Home was released in November 2006, the music was written by the band collectively while the majority of the lyrics were written by Cox with Jackson completing the lyrics for Separated by Motorways and Madame Ray. Critical reception was positive with the NME calling it fantasy pop. Reviews picked up on the predominant themes of the album, outsider status, popular references from the 1950s and 60s. Other reviews indicated the numerous inspirations for the work, for example, a four-star review in The Guardian said that if talent borrows but genius steals. The Long Blondes should be taking their Mensa tests, comparing the style to Franz Ferdinand
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Howling Bells
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Howling Bells are an indie rock band that formed in Sydney in 2004. The band obtained moderate popularity in the United Kingdom following the release of its 2006 self-titled debut album, the lineup consists of Juanita Stein, Glenn Moule, Juanitas brother Joel Stein, and Gary Daines. Originally called Waikiki, the changed its name and musical style preceding its move from Australia to England. Howling Bells debut album, Howling Bells, was produced by Ken Nelson, the album charted in the Top 100 in the UK and just outside the Top 50 in Australia, and it was included on Album of the Year lists for a number of publications. The bands next release, Radio Wars, received mixed reviews, the band supported Coldplay on the third leg of the North American Viva la Vida Tour. In 2009, Gigwise named Juanita Stein the sexiest woman in rock and their third album, The Loudest Engine, received largely favourable reviews but underperformed on the charts in comparison to the bands two prior releases. In 2011, original Howling Bells bass guitarist, Brendan Picchio, Howling Bells are notable for a doom-and-gloom, country-and-rock music style, and they have been labelled as melodic blues and country-goth. They are influenced by The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, and they are compared to Mazzy Star. Their fourth album, Heartstrings, was released in June 2014, in 1999, Glenn Moule, Joel Stein, and Juanita Stein formed the pop rock group Waikiki. They toured the Australian eastern states as a trio and released an EP, Presents, in 2002, with a rhythm guitarist, they issued the Top 50 album Im Already Home. With four members, the band then toured Australia and New Zealand, shortly thereafter, Brendan Picchio joined Waikiki as a bassist, and Juanita switched to rhythm guitar. The group soon became dissatisfied with its material, so the members chose a new direction for their music and they wrote a number of new songs and made a wish list of producers with whom they would like to work. In 2004, the changed its name to Howling Bells. Demos of the new material were sent to British producer Ken Nelson, the band members considered him to be an unattainable candidate as a producer, but he responded favourably. Upon learning that he was interested in working them, they moved to London. At the time, Nelson was occupied working with Coldplay, for eight to ten months, the band lived in adverse conditions in one room in a house in London. During this period, the took up menial employment opportunities. Picchio sold double-glazing over the telephone, Moule worked in a pub and in a car workshop, and Joel worked on a farm
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South by Southwest
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South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in scope and size every year. In 2011, the conference lasted for 10 days with SXSW Interactive lasting for 5 days, Music for 6 days, SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. SXSW Music is the largest music festival of its kind in the world, SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official YouTube channel. The music event has grown from 700 registrants in 1987 to over 28,000 registrants, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events have grown every year, most recently bringing over 51,000 registrants to Austin every March. Bands must cover their own expenses for travel and lodging at the event, All performers are offered a cash payment or a wristband package that allows access to all music events. SXSW Film Conference spans five days of conference panels and sessions, programming consists of keynote speakers, panels, workshops, mentor sessions and more, with expert filmmakers and industry leaders. In 2015, the SXSW Film Conference programmed over 250 sessions with 735 speakers, the SXSW Film Festival runs nine days, simultaneously with the SXSW Film Conference, and celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent both behind and in front of the camera. The SXSW Film Awards, which occur on the last day of the Film Conference, honor films selected by the Feature, in 2015, the SXSW Film Festival programmed 150 feature films and 106 short films, selected from 7,361 submissions. Past notable world premieres include Furious 7, Neighbors, Chef,21 Jump Street, The Cabin in the Woods, Bridesmaids and Insidious, and the TV series Girls, Silicon Valley and Penny Dreadful. SXSW Interactive is focused on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a ground for new ideas. The festival includes a show, speakers, parties. According to a festival organizer Louis Black, SXSW Interactive has probably been the biggest of its kind in the world since 2007, Louis Meyers, a booking agent and musician, was also brought on board. Black came up with the name, as a play on the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, the event was first held in March 1987. The organizers considered it an event and expected around 150 attendees to show up, but over 700 came. Meyers left Austin and the festival in the early 1990s, but Black, Barbaro, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked was the keynote speaker at the 1992 South by Southwest. In 1993, SXSW moved into the Austin Convention Center, where it is still held, in 1994, SXSW added a component for film and other media, named the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. Johnny Cash was the keynote speaker and that year, the three brothers of the band Hanson were brought to SXSW by their father in order to perform impromptu auditions for music executives, in the hopes of getting industry attention
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UK Indie Chart
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The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom. They are published weekly by the Official Charts Company, by 1978, labels like Cherry Red, Rough Trade, and Mute had started up, and a support structure soon followed, including independent pressing, distribution and promotion. These labels got bigger and bigger, and by 1980 were having top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart. Chart success was limited, however, since the official top 40 was based on sales at large chains, in 1981, compilation of the chart switched to research company MRIB. The chart served to give exposure to the independent labels and the artists on those labels, in 1985, Music Week started compiling its own indie chart, but failed to meet the authority of the original chart. Other weekly music papers also published their own charts, often compiled from record shops. To be included in the chart, a record had to be distributed independently of the corporate framework of the major record companies. Large independent distributors emerged such as Pinnacle and Spartan, and there later emerged The Cartel, an association of regional distributors including Rough Trade, Backs, and Red Rhino. Although the independent chart has less relevance today, The Official UK Charts Company still compiles a chart, the UK Indie Chart was significantly altered in June 2009. Its new system altered the qualification criteria to include singles from labels that were at least fifty per cent owned by a record company that was not one of the main four record companies. This prevented major record companies from qualifying for the chart by outsourcing the shipping of their singles to smaller distribution services. These new changes were first unveiled at the 2008 annual general meeting of the British Phonographic Industry on 9 July, and the new chart went live on 29 June 2009. The first song to top the chart under the new system was Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal, which also made it to No.1 in the main UK Singles Chart
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The Pigeon Detectives
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The Pigeon Detectives are an English indie rock band from Rothwell in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who formed in 2004. They performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were tagged the band most likely to leap to the stage in 2007 in an NME review. The band returned to the festivals in 2007 and again performed on the NME stage, speaking about the bands name, the drummer Jimmi Naylor said, I never liked the name at first. But its stuck– and its probably got us more attention having a silly name, the band were just discussing band names and he came up with The Pigeon Detectives. It became an in-joke but we thought nothing of it, but when it came to our first gig in Leeds the promoter was saying, Whats your name. When asked by BBC Sound about the name, Naylor said, Dave breeds pigeons, and theres a pigeon that lives in a shed, thats his special pigeon, according to Bowmans Twitter, the band is in fact named after a 1970s French cartoon. The band have appeared on the football based entertainment show Soccer AM on four occasions, on the 2007 Christmas Day special, they became the first band to play in the Soccer AM studio, playing the singles I Found Out and Im Not Sorry. During the same episode, Bowman announced that he had suffered a heel bone. The Pigeon Detectives are signed to the independent label Dance To The Radio with whom their first album, Wait for Me, was released on CD,12 heavyweight vinyl and digital download on 28 May 2007. The album, recorded in autumn 2006, was produced by Will Jackson and was recorded in the home town of Leeds. An early version of the album was leaked to underground music download sites on the internet on 11 April 2007, the album entered the UK Top 40 chart at number 3, achieving Gold status soon after release. During September 2007, the played at JerseyLive, a weekend event held in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. In September 2007 it was announced that the Pigeon Detectives had been nominated for Best New Act at the Q Awards, but they lost out to The Enemy. The band supported Kaiser Chiefs on three of their November/December UK tour dates, including 1 December 2007 at the Manchester Evening News Arena and 15 December 2007 at Earls Court in London. A cover of the Huey Lewis and the News track The Power of Love appears on the Radio 1 Established 1967 compilation CD, in July 2008, the single I Found Out was featured in the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. In January 2008, they recorded their album, titled Emergency, with producer Stephen Street in Monnow Valley Studios in Monmouth. The album was released on 26 May 2008, entering the UK album charts at number 5, the lead single, This Is an Emergency, peaked at number 14, their second-highest charting single. Shortly before the release, the Pigeon Detectives played their biggest ever shows at Leeds Millennium Square playing to over 15,000 people in two sold out shows
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PlayStation Portable
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The PlayStation Portable is a handheld game console developed by Sony. Development of the handheld was announced during E32003, and it was unveiled on May 11,2004, the system was released in Japan on December 12,2004, in North America on March 24,2005, and in the PAL region on September 1,2005. It primarily competed with the Nintendo DS, as part of the generation of video games. The PlayStation Portable became the most powerful system when launched. It was the first real competitor to Nintendos handheld domination, where many challengers, such as SNKs Neo Geo Pocket and Nokias N-Gage and it also features connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs and the Internet. It is the handheld console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc. The original PSP model was replaced by a model with design changes in 2007. Another remodeling followed in 2008, PSP-3000, which included a new screen, a complete redesign, PSP Go, came in 2009, followed by a budget model, PSP-E1000, in 2011. The PSP line was succeeded by the PlayStation Vita, released in December 2011 in Japan, the PlayStation Vita features backward compatibility with many PlayStation Portable games digitally released on the PlayStation Network, via PlayStation Store. Shipments of the PlayStation Portable ended throughout 2014 worldwide, having sold 80 million units in its 10-year lifetime, Sony first announced development of the PlayStation Portable at a press conference before E32004. Although mock-ups of the system were not present at the conference or E3. Then-CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Jose Villeta called the device the Walkman of the 21st Century in a reference to the multimedia capabilities. Several gaming websites were impressed by the handhelds computing capabilities and looked forward to the potential as a gaming platform. Nintendo had been dominating the market since launching its Game Boy in 1989, with the only close competitor being Segas Game Gear. Later offerings from both SNK and Nokia also failed to cut into Nintendos share, the PSP was called the first legitimate competitor to Nintendo’s dominance in the handheld market by an IDC analyst in 2004. The first concept images of the PSP appeared in November 2002 at the Sony Corporate Strategy Meeting and showed a PSP with flat buttons and no analog stick. Although some expressed concern over the lack of an analog joystick, in addition to announcing more details about the system and its accessories, Sony also released a list of 99 developer companies that had pledged support for the new handheld. Several PSP game demos, such as Konamis Metal Gear Acid and SCE Studio Liverpools Wipeout Pure were also shown at the conference
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Burnout Dominator
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Burnout Dominator is a racing game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. Burnout Dominator is the second game in the Burnout series. It retains the gameplay of the series, as players race at top speeds through dozens of World Tour events testing reckless skill-based driving techniques. The versions for each platform do not interact with each other and this is the only Burnout game that was not developed by Criterion Games, and the first Burnout game in the series since Burnout 2, Point of Impact to not feature the Crash Mode. At the time Dominator was being developed, Criterion was busy working on Burnout Paradise and was waiting to re-introduce the mode in a new form for the latter title. However, Criterion Games are listed as the makers of this game in the game manual, the main focus in Burnout Dominator is the return of Burnouts. Burnouts are the result of draining a complete boost meter without stopping, the boost meter in Burnout Dominator is primarily orange flames prior to a full boost meter, at which point in time the flames turn blue. Driving dangerously while using supercharge boost will light up the arrows on the boost meter, the process can be continually repeated allowing the player to get a Burnout Chain. Prior to Burnout Dominator, Burnouts were last seen in Burnout 2, features removed from the previous game, Burnout Revenge, include Traffic Checking, Traffic Attack Mode, Crash Mode, and online multiplayer support. The main single player mode known as the World Tour is split into 7 different series, the series are Classic, Factory, Tuned, Hot Rod, Super, Race Specials and Dominator. The vehicle lineup is mostly new with some cars from previous two Burnout titles peppered into the game, Burnout Dominator features a soundtrack spanning 33 artists. Burnout Dominator received favorable reviews on both platforms according to game review aggregator Metacritic. It was criticized for not including Crash mode
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Reading and Leeds Festivals
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The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, the Reading Festival is held at Little Johns Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near the Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. It has had various musical phases over the years, as detailed below, in the twin-site era, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have tended to dominate. The festivals are run by Festival Republic, which was divested from Mean Fiddler Music Group, for promotional purposes during 1998–2007 they were known as the Carling Weekend, Reading and the Carling Weekend, Leeds. These titles were used when not required, although NME were contractually obliged to do so as part of their involvement. In November 2007, the organisers welcomed Reading Festival reclaiming its prestigious name when the title was abolished after 9 years. In 2011, the capacity of the Reading site was 87,000 and this was an increase of several thousand on previous years. The festival typically has the following stages, Main stage – major rock, indie, metal, nME/Radio 1 stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act. Dance tent – dance music acts, previously sharing a day with the Lock Up stage, Lock Up Stage – underground punk and hardcore acts. Due to demand, from 2006 this stage took up two days rather than previous years where it was one day. Festival Republic stage – acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts, 1Xtra Stage – new stage for 2013 that stages Hip-Hop, RnB and Rap artists. Alternative tent – comedy and cabaret acts plus DJs, BBC Introducing Stage – Typically unsigned/not well known acts. The Reading Festival officially began life as the National Jazz Festival, however, the festivals roots can be traced further back to the Beaulieu Jazz Festivals of the 1950s held on the estate of Lord Montague at Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire. When alcochol-fuelled violence at the start of the 1960s led to the cancellation of the Beaulieu Jazz Festival its mantle was inherited by the new National Jazz Festival and this format continued until 1967 when jazz was relegated to just the Saturday afternoon session and by 1969 had disappeared entirely. 1964 saw a Friday evening session added to the existing weekend format, the following year a second stage was added, but this innovation was not to last and by the time the Festival was relocated to Sunbury in 1968 the single-stage format returned. Plumpton Racecourse then hosted the Festival for a stint from 1969. In 1984, many acts were booked to appear, tickets were on sale with Marillion due to be one of this years headliners
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MTV2
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MTV2 is an American digital cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel was initially broadcast over-the-air in selected markets, where the former all-request music channel known as The Box was broadcast, the channel launched initially as a constant, commercial-free music videos, once the original MTV had started to change its direction to reality television and serial documentaries. During the 2000s, the changed as well on MTV2, music video programming has been moved gradually away from MTV. In February 2015, approximately 79,416,000 American households received MTV2, MTV2 began broadcasting as simply M2 on August 1,1996 – MTVs 15th anniversary – with Becks Where Its At being the first video to air. Upon M2s launch, the new 24-hour music video proved to be as popular with viewers as MTV hoped. M2 also broadcast live over the internet during its early years, as digital cable expanded nationwide, MTV2 continued its own inexorable growth. During M2s first year, music videos were programmed to run on a 24-hour basis without repeating, leading to reports of marathon viewing sessions at college campuses across the country. However, once it became clear M2s market growth was being thwarted by the cable companies obstinance. The most obvious change—and the most upsetting to viewers—was the decision to end M2s popular 24-hour no repeat policy, predictably, this new format was as disappointing and frustrating to M2 fans as it was to the network itself. At its launch, M2 had three VJs, Jancee Dunn, Matt Pinfield and Kris Kosach, each of whom appeared on-screen 3-5 times per hour over the course of their individual 4-6 hour host segments. To many long-time MTV viewers, Pinfield was well known for hosting the seminal MTV show 120 Minutes, while Kosach, Pinfield eventually left to host other shows on MTV, while Kosach moved on to TechTV, Dunn, ever popular, remained at the channel through 2001. This unprecedented mandate gave programmers the freedom to showcase obscure and/or emerging artists, or connections between the videos themselves, e. g. the director, common themes, visual effects, etc. In addition, record companies asked to have new artists appear on the channel in taped segments with the VJs because M2 viewers were considered tastemakers and early-adopters. Even an act as huge as the Spice Girls made their first American TV appearance on M2, as did their video for Wannabe, which was a number-one hit worldwide. Starting on January 1,2000, in honor of the millennium, while a majority of videos were played, many were skipped over. The special ended in mid-April 2000, in 1997, Viacom, MTV and MTV2s parent company, bought out the independent, viewer-requested jukebox music video channel known as The Box. Starting on January 1,2001, all households that had received The Box began to receive MTV2 in its place, MTV2 also began adding television commercials to its broadcasts, beforehand, cable or satellite providers interrupted MTV2s feed to insert their own ads. MTV2 also began to separate the types of videos it played by genre, hip-hop and soul music was played for one hour every weekday at 10 a. m. and 10 p. m
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Wolfmother
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Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney, New South Wales. Wolfmother released their debut album Wolfmother in Australia in 2005, and internationally in 2006. Ross and Heskett left the band in 2008, Stockdale returned with a new lineup featuring Peres, rhythm guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins in 2009, releasing Cosmic Egg later in the year. After more personnel changes, the planned third album was released in 2013 as Keep Moving. Later that year, Wolfmother returned as a trio featuring Peres, the bands fourth album, Victorious, featured two guest drummers and was released in 2016. Wolfmother have been categorised by various commentators within the genres of rock, heavy metal, stoner rock. They are often compared to classic rock and metal bands from the 1960s and 1970s, including Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer. Frontman Stockdale has typically led songwriting for the group, although the material on the debut album was co-credited to Ross. Stockdale also produced New Crown and performed bass on Victorious, the genesis of Wolfmother began in 2000 when founding members Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross and Myles Heskett started jamming together before officially forming the band in 2004. Prior to this, Stockdale was a photographer, Ross worked in digital media, Ross came up with the name of the band. Their first live performance took place on 14 April 2004 at Vic in the Park, the group were signed by Australian independent label Modular Recordings in August 2004, with whom they released their self-titled debut extended play Wolfmother the following month. The EP reached number 35 on the ARIA Australian Singles Chart, the band toured in promotion of the release for approximately six months, during which time they signed an international recording deal with the Universal Music Group. After producing a demo for Universal US imprint Interscope Records in Sydney, the band rehearsed for six weeks at Cherokee Studios, before recording the album at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, Pass Studios in Burbank and Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood. Sardy took a minimalist approach to the process, aiming to capture the raw, emotive nature of the live performances. Additional contributions to the record included Lenny Castro, Dan Higgins, minds Eye was released as the first single from the upcoming album on 16 October 2005, reaching number 29 on the Australian Singles Chart. Wolfmother was originally released in Australia by Modular on 31 October 2005, the album reached number three on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and remained on the chart for a total of 78 weeks. By the end of 2007, the album had been certified five times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, in promotion of the album, the band toured throughout Australia in October and November 2005. They also performed at the Big Day Out festival in January and February 2006, a number of singles were released from the album, including Woman which reached number 34 in Australia, number 31 on the UK Singles Chart and number seven on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart
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The Maccabees (band)
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The Maccabees are an English indie rock band, formed in 2004 in London. The band announced that decided to disband in August 2016. The band came up with the name by flicking through the Bible and their lyrics often include an atheistic theme, in particular their second albums title track, Wall of Arms and All in Your Rows from their debut album. Their debut single, X-Ray, was released on Promise records on 28 November 2005 and this was championed by Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and received airtime on MTV2. The video, directed by Hugh Frost and Samuel Bebbington, also proved a hit after it was posted on YouTube. The band were signed to major label Fiction Records, and released their debut album Colour It In in May 2007, the single First Love was their first to chart in the UK top 40, and was followed by About Your Dress, which peaked at No.33. Their album received positive reviews, and charted at No.24 and they then toured the United States with fellow indie group Bloc Party. A full UK tour followed from October 2007, culminating in a show at the Roundhouse venue in London. On the run-up to the release of their album, the band played two new songs to Steve Lamacq on his In New Music We Trust show on Radio 1 in May 2008, No Kind Words. The band also played a string of venues in the UK to test out new songs, in March. The Maccabees performed at Offset Festival in London as well the Underage Festival in August 2008. On 16 March, Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq played the bands first single from Wall of Arms entitled Love You Better, Wall of Arms was released on 4 May 2009. It entered the UK albums chart at No.13 and received reviews with the NME giving the album 8/10. At the end of the year, Artrocker made the album joint No.1 Album of 2009 along with Yeah Yeah Yeahs Its Blitz, the band performed at NewcastleGatesheads Evolution Festival on 25 May 2009. They finished their set with Love You Better and they played before The View and after Little Boots on the Spillers Wharf Stage. In July 2009, second single Can You Give It was released, the Maccabees invited the Dodworth Colliery Band of Barnsley to record a rousing brass version of the single for the B-side. The Guardian interviewed Orlando and Felix during the recording session, the accompanying video for Can You Give It was filmed at the infamous Coopers Hill annual cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire. Other performances in 2009 include Reading and Leeds Festivals on Friday 28th and Saturday 29 August respectively, on 3 October 2009, the five-piece band played a gig at Brixton Academy to finish off their Wall of Arms tour
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Life Processes
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Life Processes is the second album by ¡Forward, Russia. And was released in the UK on 14 April 2008 and it was produced by former Minus the Bear keyboardist Matt Bayles at Red Room Recordings in Seattle, Washington. The first single from the album is Breaking Standing and this album marks the end of the numerical song titles which featured on the debut album, Give Me a Wall. Spanish Triangles was put up for streaming or downloading before the release of the album, all tracks written by ¡Forward, Russia
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Spin (magazine)
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Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine, in its early years, the magazine was known for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college rock, grunge, indie rock, and the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard and it pointedly provided a national alternative to Rolling Stones more establishment-oriented style. Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R. E. M, Spins extensive coverage of hip-hop music and culture, especially that of contributing editor John Leland, was notable at the time. Editorial contributions by musical and cultural figures included Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, David Lee Roth, the magazine also reported on cities such as Austin, Texas, or Glasgow, Scotland, as cultural incubators in the independent music scene. A1990 article on the country blues scene brought R. L. Burnside to national attention for the first time. During this time, it was published by Camouflage Associates, in 1997, Guccione sold Spin to Miller Publishing. In February 2006, Miller Publishing sold the magazine to a San Francisco-based company called the McEvoy Group LLC and that company formed Spin Media LLC as a holding company. The new owners replaced editor-in-chief Sia Michel with Andy Pemberton, an editor at Blender. The first issue to be published under his command was the July 2006 issue—sent to the printer in May 2006—which featured Beyoncé on the cover. Pemberton and Spin parted ways the next month, in June 2006, the following editor, Doug Brod, was executive editor during Michels tenure. For Spins 20th anniversary, it published a book chronicling the prior two decades in music. The book has essays on grunge, Britpop, and emo, among other genres of music, as well as pieces on musical acts including Marilyn Manson, Tupac Shakur, nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, and the Smashing Pumpkins. In July 2012, Spin was sold to Buzzmedia, which renamed itself SpinMedia. The September/October 2012 issue of Spin was the magazines last print edition, in December 2016, Eldridge Industries acquired SpinMedia via the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group for an undisclosed amount. In 1995, Spin produced its first book, entitled Spin Alternative Record Guide, although the book was not a sales success, it inspired a disproportionate number of young readers to pursue music criticism. Notable contributors to Spin have included, SPIN began compiling year-end lists in 1990, note, The 2000 album of the year was awarded to your hard drive, acknowledging the impact that filesharing had on the music listening experience in 2000. Kid A was listed as number 2, the highest ranking given to an actual album,1994 roadside attack on Spin magazine journalists Anon
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The Independent
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The Independent is a British online newspaper. The printed edition of the paper ceased in March 2016, nicknamed the Indy, it began as a broadsheet newspaper, but changed to tabloid format in 2003. Until September 2011, the paper described itself on the banner at the top of every newspaper as free from party political bias and it tends to take a pro-market stance on economic issues. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In June 2015, it had a daily circulation of just below 58,000,85 per cent down from its 1990 peak. On 12 February 2016, it was announced that The Independent, the last print edition of The Independent on Sunday was published on 20 March 2016, with the main paper ceasing print publication the following Saturday. Launched in 1986, the first issue of The Independent was published on 7 October in broadsheet format and it was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at The Daily Telegraph who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwells ownership, marcus Sieff was the first chairman of Newspaper Publishing, and Whittam Smith took control of the paper. The paper was created at a time of a change in British newspaper publishing. Rupert Murdoch was challenging long-accepted practices of the print unions and ultimately defeated them in the Wapping dispute, consequently, production costs could be reduced which, it was said at the time, created openings for more competition. As a result of controversy around Murdochs move to Wapping, the plant was effectively having to function under siege from sacked print workers picketing outside, the Independent attracted some of the staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to his companys new headquarters. Launched with the advertising slogan It is, and challenging both The Guardian for centre-left readers and The Times as the newspaper of record, The Independent reached a circulation of over 400,000 by 1989. Competing in a market, The Independent sparked a general freshening of newspaper design as well as, within a few years. Some aspects of production merged with the paper, although the Sunday paper retained a largely distinct editorial staff. It featured spoofs of the other papers mastheads with the words The Rupert Murdoch or The Conrad Black, a number of other media companies were interested in the paper. Tony OReillys media group and Mirror Group Newspapers had bought a stake of about a third each by mid-1994, in March 1995, Newspaper Publishing was restructured with a rights issue, splitting the shareholding into OReillys Independent News & Media, MGN, and Prisa. In April 1996, there was another refinancing, and in March 1998, OReilly bought the other 54% of the company for £30 million, brendan Hopkins headed Independent News, Andrew Marr was appointed editor of The Independent, and Rosie Boycott became editor of The Independent on Sunday. Marr introduced a dramatic if short-lived redesign which won critical favour but was a commercial failure, Marr admitted his changes had been a mistake in his book, My Trade
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Nottingham
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Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, located 128 miles north of London, in the East Midlands. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and it was granted its city charter in 1897 as part of Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination, in 2011, visitors spent over £1.5 billion - the thirteenth highest amount in Englands 111 statistical territories. In 2015, Nottingham had an population of 321,550 with the wider urban area. Its urban area is the largest in the east Midlands and the second largest in the Midlands, the population of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan area is estimated to be 1,610,000. Its metropolitan economy is the seventh largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $50. 9bn, the city is also ranked as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. It is also a sporting centre, and in October 2015 was named Home of English Sport. The city also has rugby, ice hockey and cricket teams, and the Aegon Nottingham Open. This accolade came just over a year after Nottingham was named as the UKs first City of Football, on 11 December 2015, Nottingham was named a Unesco City of Literature, joining Norwich, Melbourne, Prague and Barcelona as one of only a handful in the world. The title reflects Nottinghams literary heritage, with Lord Byron, DH Lawrence and it has two universities, the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, which are attended by over 70,610 students. In modern Welsh it is known poetically as Y Ty Ogofog, when it fell under the rule of a Saxon chieftain named Snot it became known as Snotingaham, the homestead of Snots people. Some authors derive Nottingham from Snottenga, caves, and ham, Nottingham Castle was constructed in 1068 on a sandstone outcrop by the River Leen. Following the Norman Conquest the Saxon settlement developed into the English Borough of Nottingham and housed a Town Hall, a settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the castle. Eventually, the space between was built on as the town grew and the Old Market Square became the focus of Nottingham several centuries later, defences, consisted initially of a ditch and bank in the early 12th century. The ditch was later widened, in the mid 13th century, a short length of the wall survives, and is visible at the northern end of Maid Marian Way, and is protected as a Scheduled Monument. On the return of Richard the Lionheart from the Crusades, the Castle was occupied by supporters of Prince John and it was besieged by Richard and, after a sharp conflict, was captured. In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw. By the 15th century Nottingham had established itself as a centre of an export trade in religious sculpture made from Nottingham Alabaster
