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the online live music gig guide for the midlands
Band List - Index P
This is a list of all the bands listed starting with P.
Pabellon 314
Very good band from the basqueland, their style is crust & roll...
Paisley Riot
Paisley Riot are:
Shane Morley - vocals & rhythm guitar
Paul Holford - guitar & keyboards
Stuart Davis - bass guitar
Rob Palatina - drums
Hailing from Wolverhampton and its surrounds, Paisley Riot formed in late 2004 with a collectiv
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Pale
Pale have quickly established themselves as one of the area's most exciting and incendiary live acts. They have developed a unique and eclectic electric style drawing on influences from A to Z. Why Pale? Because they can, need to and want to. Its in
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Paper Tigers
These boys weren't afraid to use an acoustic guitar and bare their souls with a heart felt ballad, plunge into a dark swirling epic or knock the roof off with a 4 minute pop song. They pushed their own unique style and played up their differences...i
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Paradoxic
Hi, we are Paradoxic!
We are a four piece band from Wolverhampton who love to play live music to brand new people, and we will enjoy whatever comes our way.
Since we formed as a band we have played a lot of gigs, a few competitions and had grea
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Parallel Blondie
There's the real thing, there are tribute bands, and then there is Parallel Blondie - Definately NOT just another tribute band.
Five versatile and experienced professional musicians with a shared love of Debbie Harry and Blondie - a band as powerf
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Parti Gungrog
Welsh Organic Folk Groove Jam - Currently making a name for themselves across Wales, Parti Gungrog bring new life and meaning to ancient songs. Sioned Camlin sets up the groove to spin her awesome tales of happiness and woe while the boys mess about
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Partikel
Exciting new trio putting a strong creative twist on the standard jazz format, via African, Latin American and contemporary New York jazz. Highly acclaimed - Duncan Eagles (sax), Max Luthert (bass) and Eric Ford (drums)
Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime are a lively and energetic four piece pop / rock covers / party band featuring stunning female vocals. All songs are played with an infectious enthusiasm and a passion for the music with a fantastic evening's entertainment guarantee
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Pat Evans
Playing for a number of years Pat Evans has found his forte as a solo performer who specialises in presenting covers in unusual settings. The old soul number "Stand by Me" as bluegrass anyone? His catholic music tastes have influenced his playing so
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Patrick Neate & Gemma Weekes
Poet, musician and singer Gemma Weekes has performed all over the UK and has collaborated with established names including the Black Eyed Peas, amongst others. An acclaimed writer, her debut novel, 'Love Me' received rave reviews in the Guardian ('a
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Patsy Fuller & The Revelators
Patsy and her talented band bring together Jazz, Blues, and Gospel and are best described as soulful and spiritual, with a repertoire of music that ranges from Ellington to Miles.
Patsy Fullers Speakeasy Band
Patsy Fuller recently wowed Russian audiences when performing with legendary Oleg Kireyev at The Union of Composers' jazz Club in Moscow and had a record audience at Symphony Hall's Rush Hour Blues recently.
Paul Aiden
Born in the summer of 1981 in Lincoln, England. Paul started writing songs at an early age, putting his first demo tape of songs together at age nine. After seeing Prince perform in 1992 (at age ten) Paul started learning various instruments starting
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Paul Brady
Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland's most highly regarded and successful artists.
He crosses musical boundaries again and again, incorporating folk, rock, blues traditional Irish & classic pop styles int
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Paul Carrack
Having recently toured with The Eagles, legendary Sheffield-born singer/songwriter and former front man of Ace, Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics - Paul Carrack-is back on tour promoting his acclaimed new album 'I know That Name' with soulful hits
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Paul Lamb & The Kingsnakes
Hailed as Europe's foremost blues harmonica exponent, Paul Lamb has won countless awards, sold record-breaking quantities of albums and performed the world over with his long-standing musical compatriots The Kingsnakes. "Better than the opposition fr
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Paul Steel
"The debut from wunderkind Paul Steel is a veritable masterwork of pop brillance. Ten tracks that segue seamlessly to make one 27-minute song. April & I tells the tale of a boy, his imaginary friend, and the struggles of growing up. Playful melod
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Paul Walker & Karen Ffeifer
Paul Walker and Karen Pfeiffer are a vocal and guitar duo whose onstage chemistry and vocal harmonies captivate audiences wherever they perform. Sharing vocal duties, they each have individual styles which combine to provide a unique and memorable ex
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Paul Wallis & Sam Newth
PAUL WALLIS USES A UNIQUE STYLE USING LEFT HANDED VINTAGE FENDER STRATOCASTERS STRUNG RIGHT (UNSIDE DOWN!)
Presently Paul Wallis is giging Electric/Acoustic Blues/Rock duo with Sam Newth. Professional from the age of 16, Paul moved to London in t
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Pavel Haas Quartet
'Take note: this is one of the most polished and musically exciting young string quartets in the world today' - The Washington Post
Peace
Peace, who made an instant impact with their debut single 'Follow Baby' and the billboard announcement of signing to Columbia Records, return with 'EP DELICIOUS'. The heady mix of styles woven throughout Peace and this new EP has led to something new
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Peggy & PJ
Two principal and influential figures on the British folk-roots scene, who've seen action in Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and many more, join forces to present favourite songs, familiar songs, tall tales, some nifty instrumentals and a few surpri
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Pellumair
Their music is full of heady, swirling melodies recalling the vintage harmonies of simon & garfunkel and the subliminal vocal wash of MBV, all of which combine to give them a unique, haunting and endearing sound.
Peloton
5 piece Indie/Rock outfit from Shropshire performing crowd favourites from The Jam to The Killers.
Original material from influences such as Editors, REM to name a few...
Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is a four piece band that combines elements of punk, metal, goth and rock
Peoples Republic Of Mercia
PRoM launch into 2007 with a growing reputation as one of the hottest rhythm and blues combos in the Midlands. Their high energy syle has invited comparisons with the classic 70s Canvey island sound pioneered by Dr Feelgood, and the edgy rock and ro
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Perfect Strangers
If you are looking for a band that gets people singing, tapping their feet and dancing, a band that plays a mix of chart hits from the last 5 decades, then look no further. If you're looking for a band that entertain your guests from the first beat t
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Permission To Rock
Awesome 5 piece rock covers,playing whitesnake,rainbow,ac/dc,bon jovi,free,deep purple,thunder,gun,black sabbath,etc
Pete Hyde & Friends
Pete Hyde is a singer/songwriter/guitarist with eclectic tastes.The friends line up can include members of The '44's, The Steve Gibbons band,Derek & The Checkmates, Maz Mitrenko, Trevor Burton, Phil from Quill, Tom Farnell. Anything from Dylan to
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Pete Kelly
When performing solo, I perform a selection of my own work along with songs from a wide variety of my favourite writers, new and old. I try and leave people with some new memories but make sure they have a good sing along too. There's nothing worse t
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Pete Kent
Pete Kent is a fingerstyle guitarist from Wolverhampton UK.Performing his own material and fingerstyle arrangements of well known artists' material.Pete has attracted an international fanbase via Myspace and Youtube
Pete Wheatley
Pete is a superb electric & acoustic guitarist, currently working with Cracker & The Woodpeckers, The Starvin Rascals, Joe Public & his own band Stir Crazy, & often to be seen depping for many of the Midland's finest bands. Pete is
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Pete Zimmer
Pete: I started my singing career in church choirs (it was better money than a paper round, and indoors too), before ditching the surplice and cassock for rock, blues and folk music in my early teens. I've been fortunate to work alongside some of th
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Pete Zimmer Band
Bluesy, rocky, mellow and raucous AOR, played by some of the best musicians this side of spaghetti junction.
Peter Donohoe
International Chair in pianoforte and winner of the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Birmingham Conservatoire's Vice President Peter Donohoe is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time: for his musicianship, stylisti
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Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill was born in London in 1948. His career began as the singer and songwriter for Van Der Graaf Generator, the chaotic, scary and highly influential underground group of the Seventies. The adventurous attitude which they brought to their mu
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Peter Jones
Peter is back with an even more rockier set than before. Guitar driven rock & pop from the last 3 decades from the likes of U2, Thin Lizzy, The Feeling, Boston, FYC, Glenn Campbell and many many more
Peter Murphy
Vocalist of rock group Bauhaus, Peter Murphy has released a number of solo albums enjoying critical acclaim and popularity. Thin, with prominent cheekbones, a rich Baritone voice, and a penchant for gloomy poetics, often called the "Godfather of Goth
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Peter Tedstone & Modulator ESP
Peter Tedstone & Jez Creek (Modulator ESP) regularly perform solo live concerts around the UK and have played together several times. Peter & Jez perform solo sets and as a duo. Ambient soundscapes using analogue and digital synthesis, proces
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Petty Scientist
Formed when Aaron (bass) met Gaz (guitar) in April 2005, then completed in September when Sara took the hot seat at the drums. All 3 sing, all 3 play and all 3 want to have some fun!
Check out the link above for a couple of rough demos.
Peyote
Joe Littles new blues influenced band, Peyote - 'a four piece blues, rock'n'roll band formed late 2010 and influenced by a mutual love of Quentin Tarantino movies. It was an insatiable thirst for the style, energy and emotion of the music that caused
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Phantom
Phantom are a four piece rock band covering many artists such as iron maiden, thin lizzy,GnR,status quo, acdc.
Phantom Limb
Phantom Limb is a refreshing and timely reminder of what country and soul music can and should be. Yolanda (who toured with Massive Attack in 2008), Stew, Dan Brown, Dan Moore, Luke and Matt have settled into a stride that's yielded a critically accl
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Phantomrock
a rock band with a difference all family covering acdc journey led zeplin iron maiden thin lizzy status quo zz top the cult ozzy ozbourne def leppard matalica free bad company and many more
Pharaoh
Pharaoh are a hard-edged punk/rock band, combining everything that seems lost in music at the moment. From actually singing, to guitar solo's the band take as much pride in the music as they do the energetic live show.
Phil Lee
Phil Lee writes intelligent songs full of wit, humor and grace that blend sizzling Dylan-esque rock and roll, country and western, mid-sixties British Invasion and medicine show sounds that end up being utterly unique and sung in a voice that can sho
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Phil Littler
Three piece original rock band from stoke playing all their own material from off their first album. Currently working on the new album BRAND soon to be released.Loads of guitar solos and very load a must to be seen live.
Phil Maddocks
Singer songwriter based in Congleton Cheshire. Heavily involved with the local roots and folk scene. Gigging regularly.
Phil Sayers Born To Boogie Band
Exciting and energetic 7 Piece Rhythm and Blues Band, with hints of funk, soul and ska. Four piece smoking brass section. Watch Phil Sayer and his band for a fantastic night of music. A must see for all music lovers.
Phonic Rapture
Phonic Rapture : Touring the debut album "Dirty Dream of the Filthy Rich".
"As an in-your-face rock outfit, Phonic Rapture are untouchable - the heavy hitting likes of F*cktoy, Jacknife and Run Like Hell marking them out as a world class proposition
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Photo
PHOTO are a primal three piece making sexy rock music for all you beautiful, beautiful people. We chase the pop paradox - how to combine the Stooges' sleazy lust for noise with the pop sensibilities of a chart-bound Blondie; how to tap into the power
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Phronesis
Phronesis is an a Scandinavian/British trio led by Danish bass player Jasper Hoiby and featuring the excellent British pianist Ivo Neame and Swedish drummer Anton Eger. This is a wonderfully interactive trio that is best heard in live performance; it
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Pickled Dick
Hailing from southern England, Pickled Dick is a 3 piece pop rock band with huge hooks, infectious melodies and intruiging lyrics. Their debut full-length 'Panda-moanium' was produced by Peter Miles (Captain Everything!, Howards Alias, King Blues) an
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Pierce Pettis & Brian Houston
Pierce Pettis
"Pettis offers sustenance for mind and spirit, packaged in an amiable, easily digestible musical form." - Dirty Linen. "Pierce Pettis doesn't write mere songs, he writes literature. End to end the songwriting is brilliant. His writing
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Pigbag
Pigbag are a band from another era - remember 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag'? - that have transformed themselves to freshen up the 2012 funk scene and have been blowing crowds away since their unforgettable performance the Mostly Jazz Funk & Sou
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Pigfish
Think of all your fave 70's punk bands, The Ramones or Stiff little fingers, add more recent influences such as the Wildhearts or Green Day and pay some attention to melody and you're someway to getting to what Pigfish are about.
In short , it's h
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Pink Floid
Highlights of the current 2 hour plus show include:
Dark Side Of The Moon, Time, Money, Any Colour You Like, Brain
Damage, Eclipse.
The Wall, Empty Spaces, Another Brick in the Wall, Is There
Anybody Out There?, R
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Pink Grease
Pink Grease = Attitude, Glamour, Love Death, Emotional decay, Sex, Madness 21st Century Electro Rock and Roll
Pink Spider
Pink Spider are a 4 piece Alt.metal/hardcore band based in the midlands, UK. The band have recently been seen supporting Dillinger Escape Plan, Poison The Well and Skindred
Pink Strip
Pink Strip are a girl fronted self styled pop-metal band......like marmite,love us or hate us you have to try us!
Pint Shot Riot
Having been described some lazy hack as 'bridging the gap between The Libertines and The Kaiser Chiefs', Pint Shot Riot make contemporary Indie guitar pop/rock. They draw from a wide pool of influences including Super Furry Animals, The Doors and The
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Piskie Sits
Some info to wet your appetite ...
Al Donlon - Keyboards, Vocals
Craig Hale - Vocals, Guitar
Nick Hawes - Guitars
Christopher Lambert - Drums
Mark Wilson - Bass, Vocals
Wakefield's PISKIE SITS' racket is fuelled by a love of US slacker
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Planet Of Women
God may have created man but the gods of rock created Planet of Women. Combining the power of AC/DC with the live show of Tina Turner's soul revue, their unique set up of three singers echoes the pop sensibilities of The Supremes but with the sound o
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Planet Rock
Planet Rock UK are Britains premier Classic Rock Covers Band playing all the best rock anthems from 4 decades of music. Their set is often well over 2 hours long and always flows with ease from one song to the next. Led Zep, Sabbath, Hendrix, Cream
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Plastic Pantomime
Boldly going where no covers band has gone before!
Muse, Killers, Kings Of Leon, Spandau Ballet, Stereophonics, Radiohead, cliff Richard, T Rex, Blink 182, Bee Gees...the list goes on!
Playback
We are a bunch of (mostly) greyheads who have (mostly) spent the last 20 or so years out of the live music scene (and it shows!!!) but are back now without the egos. Our influences are fairly diverse, but we all have a common love of Rhythm and Blues
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Players
featuring Mick Talbot (the style council) with Steve White and Damon Minchella (ocean Colour Scene)
Pluck
What happens when great music falls into the hands of talented idiots? You get the world's most musically challenged string trio - Pluck! Pluck is the group of three hilarious musicians who compete, ridicule, argue and seduce their way through Bach t
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Po' Girl
Po' Girl, music festival favorites, weave a blend of musical influences, sweetness, grit & soul. These urban troubadours pen harmony-drenched melodies you'll find yourself humming, winning over audiences across the globe with their passionate and
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Police Force
A tribute to the works of The Police and Sting.
Pop Art
Pop Art are a Male/Female hi-tech duo & trio who are self contained with PA and Lighting.They sing and play live a broad range of music. They specialise in Entertainment for Weddings, Hotel Dinner Dance Parties and Corporate Functions.
Poppy & The Jezebels
Formed in early september 05, Poppy & The Jezebels are a kickass girlband producing velvetunderground-esque music, with sleazy guitars, keyboard and great lyrics.
Mollie Kingsley - vocals
Dominique Vine - piano
Poppy Twist - drums
Amber Br
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Porcelain Doll
We are a female fronted Metal band in the thane of deftones and lacuna coil.
Are music ranges from heavy to Incubus esque tracks.
We are a very dedicated band that aim to creat great material and put on a memorable show every time. Our gigs are
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Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is unquestionably one of the most difficult-to-categorize and innovative bands working today. The music is breathtaking, ranging from psychedelic trip-hop to progressive metal, and a compendium of other sounds and genres in between.
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Porpoise
Porpoise are a UK based band who formed around January 2007 when the bass player (Jon Behrendt), guitarist (Pete Stanley) & drummer (Gareth McCabe) disbanded their old band Dials. Realising they still wanted to make music more than anything else,
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Presidents of the USA
Since the band's their split in December of 1997 fans have been sending letters and e-mails urging the band to reunite and asking why they broke up in the first place. Truth be told, their decision to disband came as a surprise to just about everyone
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Pressure Pill
The current LIVE set list includes covers from bands such as - The Killers, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon, The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives, Feeder, Foo Fighters, U2, Blondie, Nickelback,The Jam and many more.
The present line up is the best yet re
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Pretty Reckless
Their debut album 'Light Me Up', produced by Kato Khandwala (Blondie, My Chemical Romance, Paramore), debuted at #6 in the UK album charts, they've had two A-list records on Radio One ('Make Me Wanna Die' and 'Miss Nothing'), plus they opened the 4mu
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Pretty Things
his is the band who out-rolled the Stones through the dirtiest, hairiest, nastiest, loudest band the world had kicking out a non stop stream of snarling garage beat monsters, and impressing the young David Bowie so much that he recorded two of their
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Primer
5 piece rock group from the West Midlands. Female fronted. All original material.
Pritty Green
We are a 5 piece band from the Midlands gigging around the UK, putting together our own style of mod/indie music and exciting live performances. We formed in the early part of 2009. We are progressing with our music in a forever changing industry, ke
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Progress
Hits from two of the world's biggest and best selling boy-bands of all time, Westlife and Take that
Project 7
Project-7 have always wanted to focus to be about the music and the temptation to popularise the sound to suit the 'in' fashion is kept at arms length. Although impossible to categorise, comparisons have been made ranging from post-rock favourites s
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Project Valkyrie
Fused from a collection of musical elements that you would not usually associate with attacking riffs and dark melodies, Project Valkyrie is proving that you can have talent and still play metal. The band has its background in rock, punk and metal fr
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Prole Position
Something different existentialist glam real heart from the soul.
Prospect Lane
Digesting influences down the ages from Hendrix, Doors, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, U2, Smiths, Nirvana and all the usual indie suspects of the 90/00s, Prospect Lane spit them out sounding nothing like any in the process.
Prosthetics
The beginings of PROSTHETICS started back in 2003, they have grasped a mature post-punk sound, influenced by a wide range of artists such as Mogwai, Interpol, Editors, Radiohead, The Cure, Bloc Party, Maximo Park and electronic artists such as Aphex
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Proximity Effect
Proximity Effect are a B'ham based band. We are: Sam Bollands (Vocals), Matt Ager (Guitar), James McHugh (Bass Guitar), Rich Shakespeare (Drums). We play "Funk Rock" it's heavy riff driven songs with a good rhythm, think Grunge meets RATM, come see f
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Psychedelic Filberts
John and Rick from Diesel Park West blowing the cobwebs off some classic and not so classic 60's tracks.
Psychemodo
Psychemodo are a rock band from Birmingham, England who LOVE music. All sorts of music... that's what makes them different. They have such a joyful disregard for genre that their guitar-based rock can go from punk to funk to indie in a single song. A
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Psyxize
3 piece band from bromsgrove described as having "lots of energy and are superbly tight" in the bromsgrove advertiser. experiment in every form of music ever.
Pull Tiger Tail
Housemates of IT band the KLAXONS, Pull Tiger Tail are striding out on their own. Recently supported !!! at London's KOKO. NME Says "Pull Tiger Tail Roar with Potential" -NME
"Bugger us if their melodic crash-bang-wallop pop isn't set to be the s
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Pulled Apart By Horses
Sometimes it takes years for a band to hit upon a winning formula, but when Pulled Apart By Horses got together in an upstairs room of a Leeds pub back in late 2007, something clicked instantly. It's continued to click ever since, and has provided ut
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Punk'd - the Spirit of 1977
PUNK'D - the Spirit of 1977
Although not based on any particular band of the punk era, Punk'd are an explosive "tribute" act who capture perfectly the very essence of punk itself. With their raw energy, attitude and, above all, their ability to a
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Pure 6
A five-piece rock and pop covers band, playing all your favourite hits from the 50s right up to the present day. They cover everyone from Bryan Adams, U2, Simple Minds and Robbie Williams to Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Green Day and other such greats
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Pure Love
Singer Frank Carter and guitarist Jim Carroll got together in New York having decided to form their perfect rock band. Both come from backgrounds in hardcore music - Carter was front man with the incendiary British band Gallows; Carroll played in US
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Purple Stereo
Purple Stereo are indie/blues/rock n rollers from Walsall! Best described as a A love child of BRMC, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Oasis, Black Keys, Black Crowes with a sprinkle of Sabbath!!
Brand new track 21st Century Revolution is now availble to stre
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Push Play
Female fronted band playing west coast, blues, classic & southern rock covers - from Thin Lizzy to Eagles, Sheryl Crow to John Hiatt. Music for grown ups!
PVT
Birmingham six piece formed in 1997. Playing a fusion of rock and rap with a bit of laptop techno wizardry thrown in. Released single produced by Fuzz Townsend in 2000. No frills energetic live performances are a breath of fresh air in these days of
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