The Sunshine Underground
Armed with an angular, beat-heavy sound similar to that of Franz Ferdinand or the Kaiser Chiefs, the Sunshine Underground got their start playing gigs in the Leeds area in the early 2000s. They all went to high school in Shropshire, a county in southwestern England near the Welsh border. Craig Wellington was going to school in Shrewsbury and Stuart Jones, Daley Smith, and Matthew Gwilt went to school in Telford. Eventually, Gwilt was accepted to go to the University of Leeds, and the boys collectively moved there after graduation. They formed the Sunshine Underground soon after they got to Leeds, naming their band after a Chemical Brothers track.
It was during this time that the band established important contacts in the music industry, eventually hooking up with ¡Forward, Russia!'s "scene fixer," who promoted some of the Sunshine Underground's first shows. They captured the attention of audiences all over Britain when in 2005 the band won a popular BBC-1 battle of the bands competition called Fresh Meat. The band's debut single, "Put You in Your Place," was released on the City Rockers label in July of that year. They released another single in 2006, "Commercial Breakdown," and released their first full-length album, Raise the Alarm, on the same label a few months later. In August of that year, the band's single "Put You in Your Place" made it to number 39 in the Top 40.
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Raise The Alarm
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 27 de ago. de 2006
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Nobody's Coming To Save You
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 29 de jan. de 2010
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The Sunshine Underground
Electronic - Lançado por Lovers em 7 de mar. de 2014
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Finally We Arrive
Electronic - Lançado por Lovers em 8 de jun. de 2014
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Raise The Alarm B-Sides & Remixes
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 3 de jun. de 2011
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Luminescent
Electronic - Lançado por Lovers em 30 de set. de 2016
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Commercial Breakdown (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 29 de out. de 2006
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Borders (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 25 de fev. de 2007
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I Ain't Losing Any Sleep (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 14 de mai. de 2006
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It Is Only You
Electronic - Lançado por The Sunshine Underground em 24 de jun. de 2013
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Don't Stop
Electronic - Lançado por Lovers em 7 de mar. de 2014
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Spell It Out
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 14 de mai. de 2010
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Everything, Right Now EP
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 2 de nov. de 2009
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Everything, Right Now EP
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 30 de out. de 2009
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Borders
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 3 de jun. de 2011
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Put You In Your Place
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 17 de jul. de 2005
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Commercial Breakdown
Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 15 de jan. de 2006
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Borders (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 25 de fev. de 2007
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Raise The Alarm (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Lançado por City Rockers em 27 de ago. de 2006
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