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History

Olly Maw (previously with South London grunge band Spire) and Dan Hayes met as bassist and dj (respectively) in 2000 and formed what in it's early days was a dub act with two further members Steve Barnes (guitar) and Bren O'Donnell (drums) . One gig was performed under this line-up and the band promptly folded. Within 6 months Maw and Hayes took up the project as an electronic duo and started music production and live gigging. in 2004 Tushar Joshi joined on electro drums and the band concentrated on the live performance of trance orientated music. South London area South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... A modern spire on the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. ... Dub can refer to: dub music, a sub-genre of reggae music a mostly-instrumental remix, usually without lyrics but still with chorus The IATA airport code for Dublin Airport, Dublin, Republic of Ireland dubbing, the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture dubbing, also the process... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances as they are happening, or on a delay of several seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ... Look up Trance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The band soon found themselves on the uk festival circuit, with appearances at the infamous Kingston Green Fair the Ambient Green Picnic and the Big Green Gathering. Their acceptance into the festival scene led them to a high profile slot at the Glastonbury Festival in the Summer of 2004. This was soon follwoed by the bands first album 'Advances in Twig Technology' on Blissfields Records. Radio 1 Dj Rob Da Bank booked the band for two consecutive years at the Bestival on the Isle of Wight and this was followed by appearances at the The Levellers own festival Beautiful Days and the Larmertree Festival. The 2006 Sinulog festival in the Philippines Renaissance festival A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. ... The Big Green Gathering is an annual festival held in Somerset, UK every summer. ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, is the largest [1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a British disc jockey. ... The Bestival is a music festival on the Isle of Wight. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ... See Levellers (disambiguation) for alternative meanings. ... Beautiful Days is the name of a 24-episode, Korean TV drama series aired in 2001 on SBS network. ...

Musicology

Although most often associated with the psychedelic trance genre, the band actually span almost all forms of dance music, including trance, techno, Dub, drum and bass, and breaks. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dub can refer to: dub music, a sub-genre of reggae music a mostly-instrumental remix, usually without lyrics but still with chorus The IATA airport code for Dublin Airport, Dublin, Republic of Ireland dubbing, the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture dubbing, also the process... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... This article is about breakbeat, the genre. ...

As of 2006, Subgiant continue to tour their live act.

Discography

CD

• Advances in Twig Technology (Blissfields Records 2004)
• Global Control (Blissfields Records 2006)

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Other projects

Olly Maw, is also webmaster for the Medialens project and is an active protestor for Climate Change and Human Rights. Tushar Joshi is a founder member of Lonix, the London Unix user group and also drums with London Band Strange Mutant Virus MediaLens is a media analysis website based in the United Kingdom. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years Climate change refers to the variation in the Earths global climate or in regional climates over time. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

External links

• www.subgiant.co.uk - official website
• Subgiant's MySpace site