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Hope of the States

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Hope of the States were an English post rock-influenced indie band from Chichester. [1]

56 relations: Albert Deutsch, Alternative rock, Backing vocalist, Band (rock and pop), Bass guitar, BBC Radio 1, Belfast, Broken Social Scene, Celesta, Chapel Club, Chichester, Concert tour, Drum kit, England, Farfisa, Glockenspiel, Guitar, Hammond organ, Harmonica, Hessian fabric, Indie rock, KASMs, Laptop, Leeds, Left (Hope of the States album), Mellotron, Mental disorder, Moog synthesizer, MTV, Music box, NME, Percussion instrument, Piano, Planet Sound, Plymouth, Post-rock, Progressive rock, Pump organ, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Sampler (musical instrument), Singing, Single (music), Skip James, Sony BMG, Suicide, T in the Park, The Cockpit (Leeds), The Lost Riots, The Northwestern (band), Top 40, ..., Troubles (band), UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, UK Singles Downloads Chart, United States, Violin. Expand index (6 more) »

Albert Deutsch

Albert Deutsch (1905–1965) was an American journalist and social historian.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning.

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Celesta

The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.

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Chapel Club

Chapel Club were an English indie-synthpop band from London, consisting of singer Lewis Bowman, drummer Rich Mitchell, bassist Liam Arklie and keyboardists/guitarists Michael Hibbert and Alex Parry.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Concert tour

A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Farfisa

Farfisa is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy.

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Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Hessian fabric

Hessian, burlap in the US and Canada, or crocus in Jamaica,http://ciad.org.uk/2012/03/28/crocus-bag/ is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant or sisal fibres, which may be combined with other vegetable fibres to make rope, nets, and similar products.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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KASMs

KASMs were a Dalston-based post-punk quartet.

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Laptop

A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Left (Hope of the States album)

Left is the second and final album by the band Hope of the States, released on June 19, 2006.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Moog synthesizer

Moog synthesizer (pronounced; often anglicized to, though Robert Moog preferred the former) may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Music box

A music box or musical box is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Planet Sound

Planet Sound was a Teletext music page on ITV and Channel 4 in the UK, active from 1997 until 2009.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Reading and Leeds Festivals

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Skip James

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9, 1902October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

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Sony BMG

Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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T in the Park

T in the Park festival was a major Scottish music festival that has been held almost annually since 1994 (the event did not take place in 2017).

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The Cockpit (Leeds)

The Cockpit was a club and music venue in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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The Lost Riots

The Lost Riots is the debut album by Chichester-based rock band Hope of the States.

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The Northwestern (band)

The Northwestern were an English indie rock band, formed by former Hope of the States members Sam Herlihy and Simon Jones Their first full tour commenced on 29 May 2009, playing eleven shows across the UK.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Troubles (band)

Troubles were an English ambient post-rock instrumental band formed in 2005 following the demise of Hope Of The States.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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UK Singles Downloads Chart

The UK Singles Downloads Chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the music industry.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_of_the_States

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