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Artist: Gunnar Örn Tynes
Artist: Bonny North Tyne
Artist: Edgar Leslie Bainton
Bainton was educated at the Royal College of Music. He was a professor of music at the Newcastle upon Tyne Conservatoire and director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium. During World War I he was interned at Ruhleben. He won the Carnegie Award in 1917 for his symphony Before Sunrise. Bainton composed with late-Romantic harmonies and his... [+] Read More
Artist: Minnikin
Minnikin are Alex Kyle (guitar/vocals) (2006+), Glenn Minnikin (bass/vocals) (2002+), Marc `Jaxon` Jackson (drums/percussion) (2005+), Marc Playle (lead guitar/vocals) (2002+) and Richard `Dockaz` Docherty (lead vocals) (2003+).
Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, Minnikin and their high powered performances constrain the pristine quality of... [+] Read More
Artist: Múm
Iceland pop experimentalists Múm were formed by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, and classically trained twin sisters Gyða and KristÃn Anna Valtýsdóttir. Formed in 1997, the group met while working on a children's play. Smárason found his perception of music changed through hearing Aphex Twin and decided that he would... [+] Read More
Artist: China Drum
The powerful pop-punk band China Drum formed in Ovingham-upon-Tyne, England, in 1989. The band started as a trio consisting of guitarist Bill McQueen, bassist Dave McQueen, and drummer/vocalist Adam Lee. The band didn't get around to making their first recording until 1993; the self-financed single Simple was pressed into a few hundred copies... [+] Read More
Artist: Mr. Forky
Josh Miesmer first learned blues guitar from the well-known teacher, author of instructional books, columnist (Guitar Player magazine), and senior editor (Guitar One magazine) Dave Rubin. Through high school he put his learning to use in a ska/dub band called the Crumb Tynees, before going off to Bennington College for further study of the jazz... [+] Read More
Artist: George Smart
Though Smart was an English gentleman of great musical skill he was not and is not known for his compositional forte. He was a leading director of music who was an accomplished keyboard player both on the organ and the harpsichord. His collections of music, notes, and programs adds a plethora of information to the annals of musicography. As a... [+] Read More
Artist: Leatherface
England's Leatherface are a rare treasure in contemporary music -- a good old-fashioned punk rock band who are neither near-sighted nor necrophiles. But, boy, do they take some getting used to. Frankie Norman Warsaw Stubbs's voice -- well, untutored would be kind. Yet once you've got used to it, it's as affecting as, say, Bob Mould's or Jake... [+] Read More
Artist: Gamblers
The Gamblers got their greatest exposure during the years 1963-64 as the backing band for British rock 'n roller Billy Fury. Formed in Newcastle-on-Tyne in the early 1960's, their line-up consisted of Jim Crawford on guitar and vocals, Ken Brady on saxophone, Alan George on keyboards, Alan Sanderson on bass, and Andy Mac on drums. In 1963, Fury,... [+] Read More
Artist: Trussel
An octet from Petersburg, Virginia that formed in 1972 at Virginia State College. They took their name from a railroad bridge near the school that was actually a tressle bridge, but they changed the spelling, so the name really has no meaning. The self-contained funk band consisted of Ronald Smith (drums), Michael Gray (lead guitar/songwriter),... [+] Read More
Artist: Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne barely commands more than a footnote in most rock reference books. During the early '70s, however, Lindisfarne was one of the hottest folk-based rock bands in England, with chart placements on two of their albums that rivaled Jethro Tull, and had them proclaimed one of the most important groups of the decade. With a sound that mixed... [+] Read More
Artist: Mark Snow
Mark Snow was born in Brooklyn, the son of a professional percussionist and a kindergarten teacher who had a definite love for blues piano. As a youth, Snow learned piano and drums, then fell in love with the oboe. An aficionado of Baroque and Renaissance music, Snow entered the New York Music and Art School, where he befriended composer Michael... [+] Read More
Artist: Kathryn Tickell
Not too many people could make an instrument as localized as the Northumbrian small pipes sexy, but that's exactly what Kathryn Tickell (who's also an accomplished fiddler) has managed. Along the way, in addition to many records under her own name, she's recorded with Sting and the Chieftains, and elevated her instrument to the international... [+] Read More
Artist: Ian Carr
Ian Carr has been on the cutting edge of the British jazz scene for nearly four decades. Self-trained as a musician, Carr played an important role in the development of jazz-rock fusion, playing with John McLaughlin in the early '60s, forming one of England's first electronic jazz-rock fusion groups, Nucleus, in 1969 and playing with the... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Johnson
It's never easy to replace a founding member of a band who dies tragically, but AC/DC's Brian Johnson fit in with the Australian hard rocking band perfectly and was accepted immediately by the group's legion of fans. Born on October 5, 1947, in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, Johnson sang with a church choir as a youngster, but like zillions of... [+] Read More
Artist: Pete Sayers
The only British performer ever to appear as a regular guest on Nashville's legendary Grand Ole Opry, singer, songwriter, and comedian Pete Sayers was born November 6, 1942, in Bath, England. The son of a music teacher, while still a toddler he received a violin from musical humorist Gerard Hoffnung, a close family friend. In 1949 the family... [+] Read More
Artist: Bryan Ferry
While his tenure as the frontman for the legendary Roxy Music remained his towering achievement, singer Bryan Ferry also carved out a successful solo career which continued in the lush, sophisticated manner perfected on the group's final records. Born September 26, 1945 in Washington, England, Ferry, the son of a coal miner, began his musical... [+] Read More
Artist: Karen Tweed
When tradition-rooted acoustic guitarist Ian Carr met accordion player Karen Tweed at the Shetland Folk Festival in 1990, it was a meeting of kindred spirits. In the decade since, the two instrumentalists have reinterpreted the music of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as a duo and in two folk bands-Swap, featuring Ola Backstrom and Corina... [+] Read More
Artist: Alan Hull
Best known as the co-founder, leader, and principal songwriter of the Newcastle folk-based rock band Lindisfarne, Alan Hull also pursued a successful career as a solo performer, specializing in original songs. At one time, amid Lindisfarne's early successes, Hull was being hailed as the most innovative songwriter since Bob Dylan, and although... [+] Read More
Artist: James Hill
Are the fiddle tunes written by or associated with James Hill popular? Look at it this way: the combined efforts of everyone else in the history of music named James Hill, or everyone simply named James for that matter, wouldn't even come close in terms of the number of tunes that have been passed down through the generations and are getting... [+] Read More
Artist: Louis Killen
A mainstay of British folk music since the '50s best-known for his collections of sea shanties and whaling songs, Louis Killen is a singer, archivist, lecturer, and historian on the level of Ewan MacColl, Pete Seeger, and A.L. Lloyd, all of whom Killen worked with at one time or another.
Born in the northern village of Gateshead-on-Tyne, County... [+] Read More
Artist: Carr & Tweed
When tradition-rooted acoustic guitarist Ian Carr met accordion player Karen Tweed at the Shetland Folk Festival in 1990, it was a meeting of kindred spirits. In the decade since, the two instrumentalists have reinterpreted the music of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as a duo and in two folk bands-Swap, featuring Ola Backstrom and Corina... [+] Read More
Artist: Rod Clements
Rod Clements is best known as the co-founder of Lindisfarne and the author of such songs as "Meet Me on the Corner" and "Road to Kingdom Come." As a bassist and singer, he has played with artists and groups as different as Ralph McTell, Peter Hammill, and Pentangle. Born Roderick Parry Clements in 1947 in North Shields, England, he was an only... [+] Read More
