The Sunshine Underground
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Leeds, England |
| Genre(s) | Indie |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Label(s) | City Rockers |
| Website | http://www.tsuarmy.co.uk/ |
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| Craig Wellington Stuart Jones Daley Smith Matthew Gwilt |
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The Sunshine Underground are an English, Leeds based indie rock band. The Sunshine Underground play a variety of punk, funk and indie, featured on their debut album, Raise the Alarm, released by City Rockers on August 28, 2006. The group is named after a song by The Chemical Brothers.
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[edit] Biography
The band are originally from Shrewsbury and Telford, and formed while studying at New College, Telford. After new college the band moved to Woodhouse in Leeds where the band started to develop its sound.
They sold out venues in London and Leeds on their first headline tour. Following their successful support slots for LCD Soundsystem, the group earned the Live Band of the Year trophy at the Leeds Music Awards.
Work on their debut album, Raise the Alarm, was completed in May 2006 and was released on August 28, 2006. They appeared on the 2006 spring/summer European festival circuit.
November saw the band play even more gigs, at increasingly large venues throughout the UK, including cities like Glasgow, Preston, Barnsley and London with the addition of other concerts in May 2007. Most notably they played the Other Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in June and played a headline set on the future stage at T in the Park in July and performed at the Leeds/Reading Festival in August 2007, playing on the NME stage.
During their recent tour supporting Happy Mondays, the band have played a number of live versions of new songs which are expected to appear on their second album - slated for a 2008 release. These include titles such as 'Fall In Line' (which has now appeared as a recorded demo on YouTube), 'Your Friends', 'What Are You Waiting For' and 'Coming Home'.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Demos
My Army EP (2004)
[edit] Albums
[edit] Singles
| Year | Song | Album |
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| 2005 | "Put You in Your Place" | Raise the Alarm |
| 2006 | "Commercial Breakdown" | Raise the Alarm |
| 2006 | "I Ain't Losing Any Sleep" | Raise the Alarm |
| 2006 | "Put You in Your Place" (reissue) | Raise the Alarm |
| 2006 | "Commercial Breakdown" (reissue) | Raise the Alarm |
| 2007 | "Borders" | Raise the Alarm |
