Eat (band)
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| Eat | |
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| Origin | Bath/London  |
| Genre(s) | Alternative Rock |
| Years active | 1986–1995 |
| Label(s) | Fiction Records |
| Former members | |
| Ange Dolittle Paul Nobel Max Nobel Pete Howard Tim Sewell Jem Moorshead Maz Lavilla |
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Eat were a British alternative rock band who were active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They released two albums on The Cure's label Fiction. Although achieving reasonable success in the UK, the band failed to attract attention in the United States.
The band started out playing a distinctive mixture of swamp blues, hip hop and funk, showcased on their 1989 album Sell Me A God.[1]. However, a combination of internal feuds ("It got to the point where we just couldn't bear to be in the same room as each other")[2] and singer Ange Dolittle's drugs problems meant the band was effectively on hiatus from 1990 to 1992. The band returned with a different line up, a completely different sound - of pop and psychedelia - and the album Epicure in 1993.
However despite further positive reviews, the band had evidently run its course, and in 1995 Dolittle left to join members of The Wonder Stuff in Weknowwhereyoulive, whilst Howard ironically joined The Wonder Stuff's singer Miles Hunt in his new project Vent 414.
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[edit] Discography
Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart.[3]
[edit] Albums
- Sell Me A God (1989) (#10)
- Epicure (1993)
[edit] Singles and EPs
- "Autogift" (EP) (1989)
- "Plastic Bag" (EP) (1989) (#15)
- "Tombstone" (1989)
- "Summer In The City" (1989)
- "Psycho Couch" (1990)
- "Golden Egg" (1992)
- "Shame" (1992)
- "Bleed Me White" (1993)
[edit] References
- ^ Eat Biography Bandplanet.com - Retrieved on 2008-01-28
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, ed.Colin Larkin. Muze ISBN 9780195313734
- ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
