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The Long Blondes are a 5-piece English indie rock band from Sheffield. The band is known not just for their music, but also their "glamorous punk" image. Front-woman Kate Jackson was featured in The Guardian's style section and the NME cool list, moving from 39 in 2005 to 7 in 2006. When questioned about her place in the first NME list by The Guardian, Jackson remarked "Probably because they didn't have enough girls. It was so overrun with boring boys, they needed someone to bring a touch of glamour."[1] Image File history File links Longblondes_logo. ...
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Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ...
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Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
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Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
Kate Jackson Kate Jackson, born 1979, is the lead-singer with British band The Long Blondes. ...
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Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ...
Kate Jackson Kate Jackson, born 1979, is the lead-singer with British band The Long Blondes. ...
The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
Sometimes confused with the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ...
Band members
- Dorian Cox - Lead guitar and keyboards.
- Ric Flair - Bass guitar and backing vocals
- Emma Chaplin - Rhythm guitar, Keyboards and backing vocals
- Kate Jackson - Lead vocals
- Screech Louder (real name Mark Turvey) [2] - Drums
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Kate Jackson Kate Jackson, born 1979, is the lead-singer with British band The Long Blondes. ...
Style The Long Blondes' songs reflect a number of influences, including 60's pop, Buzzcocks, The Ramones, post-punk and New Wave. Traces of work by another Sheffield band, Pulp can also be seen in their recordings, their debut album was indeed produced by Steve Mackey, bassist of Pulp. The prominence of these various influences varies from song to song. Jackson's vocals have been compared to Ari Up of The Slits, Deborah Harry of Blondie and those of Au Pairs. Dorian Cox's backing vocals are also very similar to those of Jarvis Cocker. The music features angular guitars and prominent bass guitar lines. However, the band themselves claim somewhat more eclectic influences than their sound suggests, citing Burt Bacharach, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Chinn and Chapman, and Stock, Aitken and Waterman as influences. The band gained notoriety early on in their career for their bold proclamation "We do not listen to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors or Bob Dylan. We chose an instrument each and learnt to play it." This quote was first published on their website, and was seen as a comment on the derivative nature of the contemporary music scene. Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Leigh, Manchester in 1975[1], led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence. ...
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Steve Mackey (born 10 November 1966 in Sheffield, England) is a British musician, best known for playing bass guitar in Britpop band Pulp. ...
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The Au Pairs were a post-punk band who formed in Birmingham in 1979. ...
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963, in Sheffield, England) is an English musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp. ...
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Career On April 13, 2006 they signed to Rough Trade Records[1] and recorded their long-awaited debut album, Someone to Drive You Home over the summer ready for its release on November 6. They worked with producer Steve Mackey on the album, who has previously worked with Pulp. The album was preceded by their second single for the label, "Once and Never Again", which was released on October 23rd and debuted at number 30 in the UK singles chart[2]. In June 2006 they released their first single for the label, "Weekend Without Makeup", which reached number 28. They appeared at a number of UK festivals over summer 2006, including the Carling Weekend, Leicester's Summer Sundae and Ireland's Electric Picnic. Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
Someone To Drive You Home is the debut album by The Long Blondes. ...
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Pulp are a rock band, formed in Sheffield, England in 1978, by then 15-year-old school-boy Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar). ...
The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ...
The Reading and Leeds Festivals, officially called the Carling Weekend, are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ...
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Discography
Studio albums Image File history File links Someone_To_Drive_You_Home. ...
Someone To Drive You Home is the debut album by The Long Blondes. ...
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Singles The Boyfriends are a indie four piece from London, England. ...
Filthy Little Angels is a UK-based independent record label who have released records by artists such as The Long Blondes, The Boyfriends, Vichy Government, etc. ...
Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation, or Thee SPC, is an indie record label based in Sheffield. ...
An independent label based in New Cross, South East London. ...
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An independent label based in New Cross, South East London. ...
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Weekend Without Make Up was the first single to be released by the Long Blondes on Rough Trade Records. ...
Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
Once And Never Again is the second major label single from UK indie rock band the Long Blondes. ...
Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
Giddy Statospheres is the third major label single from UK indie rock band the Long Blondes. ...
Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ...
References - ^ Fox, Imogen (2005-19-12). Kate Jackson, The Long Blondes. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2006-10-25.
- ^ Drummer's year in the spotlight. Stourbridge News (2006-21-12). Retrieved on 2007-04-05.
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ...
April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ...
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