Salad (band)

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Salad was a UK-based pop group that included vocalist/keyboardist Marijne van der Vlugt, bassist Pete Brown, drummer Rob Wakeman, and guitarist Paul Kennedy. In 1996, Charley Stone (ex Gay Dad) joined the band as a live guitarist, keyboard player and backing vocalist). Thanks to van der Vlugt's amiable, joyous stage presence (along with her notoriety as a video jockey for MTV Europe), Salad gained a reputation as an energetic power pop band comparable to other bouncy outfits like Sleeper and Elastica. They started life as The Merry Babes but changed to Salad in 1992 when Pete Brown was recruited on bass. Salad released two full length albums - 1995's Drink Me and 1997's Ice Cream - plus Singles Bar (an 11 track compilation of their first three singles) before being dropped by Island records and ultimately disbanding in 1998. Despite being bracketed as part of the Britpop scene in terms of sound, they never quite received the same amount of attention given to their peers.

Van der Vlugt now writes and sings with her new band, Cowboy Racer whose song "Yellow Horse" recently featured on the hit U.S. television show, Grey's Anatomy. Rob Wakeman and Pete Brown now run the popular viral collection site, BoreMe. Charley Stone now plays guitar with Spy51