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Southern are a brother and sister duo from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2011. Southern play a mixture of blues, alternative rock, pop and folk/bluegrass. Signed to Marathon Artists, they released their self-title debut EP Southern in 2013 to glowing reviews. The band has been championed by BBC Radio Ulster's Gerry Anderson who has described them as "the most promising singer/songwriters in Ireland today." Southern's single Where the Wild Are was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on Phil & Alice's show. Having spent the year touring with the likes of Bastille and Jack Bugg, Thom and Lucy bring a fresh...

Northern Kings is a Melodic Metal supergroup of famous Finnish musicians, consisting of Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica) Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot) J-P Leppäluoto (Charon) Jarkko Ahola (Teräsbetoni) Background singing by Aleksi Parviainen (Soulcage) The group is not an ordinary band, but a league of four vocalists, who are all frontmen of successful heavy metal bands. They wanted to create something special together and came up with an idea of arranging 80's classics to metal versions - sung by all the four together. The tracks from their current album, "Reborn", include legendary pieces such as "I Just Died In Your Arms...

South had several hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs such as "Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home" and "Walk a Mile in My Shoes". His biggest and most remembered single was "Games People Play" (1968), a Top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song, the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and which bears a striking resemblance to the children's gospel song, "I Don't Want to Be a Pharisee". It was featured on his first album, Introspect. He had met and was encouraged by...

British band: "When someone comes to you in a dream and tells you to make an album about your homeland – the Orkney islands- would you disregard it? Especially when that someone is Betty Corrigall, the Orcadian girl who in the 1770′s killed herself having been cast out by her village after becoming pregnant by a visiting sailor?” Well, would you? In January 2011, it’s the spark that led Orcadian singer-songwriter Erland Cooper to group together his Erland & The Carnival band mate Simon Tong and singer/orchestral arranger Hannah Peel (of last year’s solo ‘The Broken Wave’ album) to form...

Northwind (1) A Canadian Melodic Death Metal Band active from 2006 on. (2) American progressive rock band active from 1968-1978. (3) American Jazz trio from the 1980s. (4) Irish folk band? (5) Greek Metal band (1)Northwind formed in 2006 in Castlegar B.C. They are currently recording their demo which they say will be released sometime in 2008. The have song available from their website. The band Consists of 5 Members; Kris Kolesnikoff, Nick Molson, Ross Gyurkovits,Keiran Killgore and Galen Taylor. Northwind has played many shows and recieved tons of positive feed back, etc,etc. http://www.northwindmetal.com/. A LP will be released sometime...