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Pys Melyn (Yellow Peas in Welsh) have been playing together live since 2014. They released their first singles in 2018, and their debut album Bywyd Llonydd followed in 2021. The band members are Ceiri Humphreys, Sion Adams, Jac Williams, and Owain Llwyd, all from Pen Llŷn in North Wales. Their music is often noted for how it draws on 60s and 70s influences to create psychedelic indie. Read more on Last.fm

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As a child Lordan taught himself to play piano and guitar. He attended Finchley Catholic High School and went into National Service in the Royal Air Force as a radar operator. On leaving the Services he had a number of jobs including stand-up comedian, singer and in advertising. He started to write songs and, in 1958, with the help of contacts made in the advertising business, a demo of one of his songs was heard by a record producer. The song, "A House, A Car and a Wedding Ring" was recorded by Mike Preston on Decca Records. Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one act that goes by the name 'The Shadows'; 1.) The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the pre-Beatles era. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours. The Shadows have had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 credited to the Shadows and 34 to Cliff Richard and the Shadows. Read more on Last.fm

John Martyn OBE, born Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a forty-year career he released twenty studio albums. He grew up in Glasgow and attended Shawlands Academy. John Martyn moved to London from Glasgow in the mid 1960s. He made his initial recorded impact in 1967, at the age of 19, with his debut album London Conversation. He then quickly became an integral part of the British music scene, incorporating Folk, Blues, and Jazz into his unique sound. Read more on Last.fm

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Worldpeace DMT is the project of London-based musician Leo Fincham. Drawing on a background in fine art and classical training, Fincham makes psychedelic indie pop music that draws influence from artists such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the indie music of the 1990s and 2000s. His debut EP, Brass Invaders, was released in October 2024, followed by his debut album The Velvet Underground & Rowan, made in collaboration with Rowan Please of The Femcels. Read more on Last.fm

Gravenhurst was a project by singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot (14 May 1977 – 2 December 2014), from Bristol, England, signed to Warp Records. Talbot began playing solo, but from 1999 Gravenhurst toured extensively as a band. Gravenhurst's first full-band line up featured Dave Collingwood on drums, who also plays with Azalea City Penis Club, and bassist Paul Nash. Nash soon left to concentrate on his own musical project North Sea Navigator, and was replaced by Huw Cooksley. Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) The Brothers Gillespie is British folk duo brothers James Gillespie and Sam Gillespie; 2) The Brothers Gillespie is an American band based in North Carolina. 1) The Brothers Gillespie is British folk duo brothers James Gillespie and Sam Gillespie (raised in the Northumbrian village of Wall). The duo released their debut album, "Songs from the Outlands", in 2016. In 2019, they followed up with "The Fell". Read more on Last.fm

Esther Phillips (December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music. Born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas, when she was an adolescent, her parents divorced, and she was forced to divide her time between her father in Houston and her mother in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Because she was brought up singing in church Read more on Last.fm