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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Nobody's Coming To Save You
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 29 Jan 2010
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The Sunshine Underground
Electronic - Released by Lovers on 7 Mar 2014
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Raise The Alarm B-Sides & Remixes
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 3 Jun 2011
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Commercial Breakdown (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Released by City Rockers on 29 Oct 2006
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Borders (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Released by City Rockers on 25 Feb 2007
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I Ain't Losing Any Sleep (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Released by City Rockers on 14 May 2006
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It Is Only You
Electronic - Released by The Sunshine Underground on 24 Jun 2013
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Everything, Right Now EP
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 2 Nov 2009
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Everything, Right Now EP
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 30 Oct 2009
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Put You In Your Place
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 17 Jul 2005
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Commercial Breakdown
Rock - Released by City Rockers on 15 Jan 2006
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Borders (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Released by City Rockers on 25 Feb 2007
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Raise The Alarm (The Sunshine Underground)
Pop/Rock - Released by City Rockers on 27 Aug 2006
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