Artists
East 17
When East 17 stumbled into the Walthamstow limelight in late 1991 they had little idea that their rabble-rousing brand of boy-band pop would create such a storm. Indeed, at the outset, a young Tony Mortimer had been on the verge of signing a solo deal with London Records until ex-Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins suggested that what the world needed was a boy-band antidote to Take That and a band that bad girls could fall in love with.Read East 17′s biography »
Lunik
Essentially it all comes down to belief. Jaël, the winsome frontwoman and songwriter for the effervescent Lunik, has pushed away the doubts and fears that used to crowd her. Musically, the band have charted a new course over the months that led to the genesis of the stunning new album ‘Small Lights In The Dark’ and that process of change threatened to darken Jaël’s mood…Read Jaël’s biography »
Blow Monkeys
The Blow Monkeys formed in 1981, releasing a single Live Today, Love Tomorrow on the tiny Parasol label the following year and signing to RCA and releasing a debut album Limping For A Generation (produced by Jam/Style Council knob-twiddler Pete Wilson) the year after that. It wasn’t until 1986, however, that the band achieved the commercial success that matched their nascent critical acclaim…A biography by Phil Savidge »
Marti
Andrea Bruschi is the founder and driving creative force behind maverick musical pioneers Marti. Eschewing the obvious route in favour of an eclectic and rewarding brew of jazz, rock and the avant garde, the band from Genoa are determined to travel a route of their own choosing – a trail that they will blaze themselves…Marti’s biography »
Gregory Darling
We know Arctic Monkeys called their debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (a phrase the Albert Finney character uses in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) but there are very few artists that take this recalcitrance to the nth degree. Gregory Darling is one such artist. “At school, I played in a lot of bands, a black funk act, even at the Southern Baptist Church in Tujunga every Sunday, until they kicked me out for falling asleep under a piano,” he says and you can bet this wasn’t the first time he’d kicked against the pricks…Read Gregory’s biography »
Gus MacGregor
We are very proud to have Gus MacGregor as part of the FOD family!“Gus is an extremely talented Singer Songwriter with lyrics that feed the soul”. His debut album will be out in Spring of 2011…
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