The Watch | en

There are more than one band with the name Watch exists... 1. WATCh ... Is a Pop-rock, Britpop band from Minsk, Belarus formed in 2004 and reunited in 2008 by three band members, including drummer (Arthur Simanian), bass player (Alexander Chizh) , guitarist and frontman (Boris Demidiuk). The band have succesfully performed in many Minsk and Belarussian clubs and venues and not long ago has released a new single called "Liza" which had been released and distributed digitally via major music-selling stores. http://www.myspace.com/watchband .

Formed in Santa Barbara in 1988, the black watch have released 13 CDs of highly literary, catchy indiepop; as Andy Gill of Gang of Four recently said in The Independent UK, "Los Angeles has not produced a band like this in a long time; they have, in singer/songwriter John Andrew Fredrick, an artist capable of both My Bloody Valentine miasma AND Nick Drake quietness. Pity that they are relying on a tiny label out of Dorset UK to get their latest fine CD, "the hypnotizing sea," heard." .

The Watch is a 5-piece band from Milan, Italy. Born from the ashes of The Night Watch, they began to work in a more professional way with the release of Ghost in 2001, the album that introduced them to prog audiences. Today, The Watch are a well-known act in the prog community and are definitely appreciated. Their music is inspired by artists of the 70's, primarily early Genesis, owing to an incredible similarity between Simone Rossetti's vocals and those of a younger Peter Gabriel. Despite this similarity, however, the band has its own style, combining classical prog atmospheres with a...

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