Bentley Rhythm Ace
Also known as	BRA
Origin	Birmingham, England
Genre(s)	Big beat, House, Electronica
Years active	1995–present
Label(s)	Skint, Parlophone
Website	bentleyrhythmace.com archives
Members
Mike Stokes Richard March

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Career

The band was formed in Birmingham, in 1995 by Rich, former members of the group Pop Will Eat Itself (with guest appearances by James Atkin, a member of indie band EMF) and Mike. "Both more or less penniless, they drank in the same pub and were forced to buy their records at the cheapest place possible - car bootsales"^[1]. Their live drummer was Fuzz Townshend, with whom March previously played in Pop Will Eat Itself. In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... This article is about the British city. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. ... In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... EMF is a British indie dance band which came to prominence at the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s. ... Robert Fuzz Townshend was born on 31 July 1964. ...

BRA signed on the Brighton based record label Skint and released their eponymous debut album, Bentley Rhythm Ace in 1997 , that spawned the popular single "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out". Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by Damien Harris, who releases records through the Midfield General pseudonym. ... Bentley Rhythm Ace, released in 1997, was the debut album of Bentley Rhythm Ace, an electronic music collective from Birmingham, England. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...

A second album, For Your Ears Only, was released in 2000 on Parlophone but was less popular. A further single "Madam, Your Carriage Awaits" was released. The group also compiled a two CD FSUK compilation album. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... For Your Ears Only, released in 2000, is Bentley Rhythm Aces second album. ... Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. ... CD redirects here. ... A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ...

In 2004, the Bentleys put out a 4 songs record with Sophia Lolley called Angel Face.

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The group epitomises the Big Beat era. Signed to Skint Records, they have enjoyed much commercial success with their music being used on television advertisements and with an enormous underground following. Big beat (sometimes called chemical breaks) is a term deployed in the mid 1990s by the British music press to describe the work of artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy. ... Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by Damien Harris, who releases records through the Midfield General pseudonym. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...

The group have all but split, playing the occasional low-key DJ set, but have released no further material since 2000. March and Townshend also both teach at Halesowen College in the Music department. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...

Band members

• Richard March (born 4 March 1965, in York, England) - bassist
• Mike Stokes - keyboardist

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Trivia

• The album track "T-Spot" was used in a commercial for Nik Naks.

• The song "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out!" was used in a commercial for L'Oreal Shampoo along and an advert for Lynx deodorant in the UK.

• The song "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out!" is used by CBC Radio as the opening theme for the Saturday afternoon show Definitely Not The Opera.

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References

External links

• Smashing Press (record label) BRA page with news, bulletin board and links.
• Midlander fan site.
• Coda BRA's booking agents.
• Bentley Rhythm Ace's MySpace page