Musical Groups from Brighton and Hove

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: 14 Iced Bears, Attacco Decente, Blood Red Shoes, Brakes (band), British Sea Power, Caramel Jack, Cave Painting (band), Clearlake (band), Darts (band), David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Dead Swans, Dear Prudence (band), Electrelane, Flannel (band), Freemasons (band), Fujiya & Miyagi, Huggy Bear (band), Levellers (band), Metronomy, Moist (folk rock band), My Deaf Audio, My Federation, Once Over, Palm Springs (band), Peggy Sue (band), Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Phats & Small, Phoria, Poison Girls, Rizzle Kicks, Sharkboy, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Swarf (band), The Dials, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Electric Soft Parade, The Ghost of a Thousand, The Go! Team, The Indelicates, The Kooks, The Mojo Fins, The Pipettes, The Piranhas, The Popguns, The Upper Room (band), The Yes/No People, Vile Imbeciles. Excerpt: The Levellers are an English rock band, founded in 1988 and based in Brighton, England. It is unclear whether the band got its name from the democratic faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army; or as a reference to 'The Level', an area of Brighton around a flat triangular green in the centre of hilly Brighton, where members of the band used to live, or whether, according to guitarist Simon Friend, it was chosen from a dictionary. The band was formed with Chadwick on guitar and lead vocals, Cunningham on bass guitar, and Heather on drums. Jon Sevink, the brother of Chadwick's girlfriend, was brought in to play the violin. Chadwick's flatmate "Bucky" was brought in to play the guitar, but lost interest after a few months. Chadwick and Cunningham composed their first recordings for the compact cassettes An Agreement of the People and All the Free Commons of England. A group of fans known as the "happy hitchers" would hitch-hike around the country, following the band while they were on tour. Their...