- The Sunshine Underground
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Img_capt = The Sunshine Underground playing atSolidays festival inParis ,France ,July 6 ,2007
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Origin =Leeds ,England
Genre = Indie
Years_active = 2000–present
Label =City Rockers
URL = http://www.tsuarmy.co.uk/
Current_members = Craig Wellington
Stuart Jones
Daley Smith
Matthew Gwilt
Past_members =The Sunshine Underground are an English,
Leeds basedindie rock band. The Sunshine Underground play a variety of punk, funk and indie, featured on their debut album, "Raise the Alarm ", released by City Rockers onAugust 28 2006 . The group is named after a song byThe Chemical Brothers .Biography
The band are originally from
Shrewsbury andTelford , and formed while studying at New College, Telford. After new college the band moved to Woodhouse inLeeds where the band started to develop its sound.They sold out venues in
London and Leeds on their first headline tour. Following their successful support slots forLCD Soundsystem , the group earned the Live Band of the Year trophy at the Leeds Music Awards.Work on their debut album, "
Raise the Alarm ", was completed in May 2006 and was released onAugust 28 ,2006 . They appeared on the 2006 spring/summer European festival circuit.November saw the band play even more gigs, at increasingly large venues throughout the UK, including cities like Glasgow, Preston, Barnsley and London with the addition of other concerts in May 2007. Most notably they played the Other Stage at the
Glastonbury Festival in June and played a headline set on the future stage atT in the Park in July and performed at the Leeds/Reading Festival in August 2007, playing on the NME stage.During their recent tour supporting Happy Mondays, the band have played a number of live versions of new songs which are expected to appear on their second album - slated for a 2008 release. These include titles such as 'Fall In Line' (which has now appeared as a recorded demo on YouTube), 'Your Friends', 'What Are You Waiting For' and 'Coming Home'.
Discography
Demos
My Army EP (2004)
Albums
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Raise the Alarm " - (28 August ,2006 ) -City Rockers ingles
External links
* [http://www.thesunshineunderground.co.uk/ The Sunshine Underground Official site]
* [http://www.nme.com/artists/the-sunshine-underground NME Artist page featuring news, interviews, reviews, and videos]
* [http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/2198/ The Sunshine Underground - Leeds Music Scene]
*MySpace|thesunshineunderground|The Sunshine Underground
* [http://www.fabchannel.com/the_sunshine_underground Fabchannel.com - Watch a free video stream of the Paradiso concert]
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