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 from the 1999 album Surrender
by The Chemical Brothers.
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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.
The band headlined the
Strathclyde University's 2007
freshers week.
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'.
In November 2008, after several months of non-activity, the band posted several new demos on their page titled 'Malibu', 'Epic', 'Darktime', 'Animals' and 'An Introduction'. It was stated by the band that none of these songs would make their second album.
They recorded a song with
FC Kahuna named "From the City to the Sea" which was made public and free for download in February 2009. It was released as a free download because it differed too much from the other songs to make it on the album. The song takes a sample from the
Aphex Twin track
Windowlicker.
On 16 April 2009, the band put up low-resolution versions of five tracks from their new album on their MySpace account; "In Your Arms", "Coming to Save You", "Spell It Out", "Your Friends" and "Any Minute Now". However, the latter four tracks were removed for unknown reasons.
Discography
Demos
Albums
- Raise the Alarm
- (28 August, 2006) - City Rockers
Singles
| Year
| Song
| Album
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| 2005
| "Put You in Your Place"
| Raise the Alarm
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| 2006
| "Commercial Breakdown"
| Raise the Alarm
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| 2006
| "I Ain't Losing Any Sleep"
| Raise the Alarm
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| 2006
| "Put You in Your Place" (reissue)
| Raise the Alarm
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| 2006
| "Commercial Breakdown" (reissue)
| Raise the Alarm
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| 2007
| "Borders"
| Raise the Alarm
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