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The King Blues

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The King Blues are a British punk rock band from London, England, credited for fusing punk and hip hop together with influences from ska and spoken word. [1]

63 relations: Alexandra Palace, Anarchism, Arab Spring, Bassist, BBC Radio 1, Bleach Blood, Bonkers (song), Clive Langer, Cooking Vinyl, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dizzee Rascal, Elvis Costello, Enhanced CD, Enter Shikari, Flobots, Folk punk, Folkestone, Hevy Music Festival, Household Records, Independent Media Center, Island Records, Jonny "Itch" Fox, Last Hours, Live Lounge, London, Love Music Hate Racism, Madness (band), Mike Davies (broadcaster), Morrissey, Murder of Sophie Lancaster, Noel Gallagher, Paul Mullen, Percussion instrument, Pete Donaldson, Phil Clifton, Public Enemy (band), Punk & Poetry, Punk rock, Radio X (United Kingdom), Reading and Leeds Festivals, Record label, Rob da Bank, Robert Browning, Rollo Armstrong, Roundhouse (venue), Save the World. Get the Girl, Single (music), Ska punk, Spring.me, Status Quo (band), ..., Tariq Ali, The Automatic, The Clash, The Specials, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Transmission Recordings, UK Albums Chart, Ukulele, Under the Fog, What If Punk Never Happened, Yourcodenameis:milo, Zane Lowe, 3RRR. Expand index (13 more) »

Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Arab Spring

The Arab Spring (الربيع العربي ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (الثورات العربية aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.

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Bassist

A bassist, or bass player, is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone.

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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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Bleach Blood

Bleach Blood is a dance punk band formed in north east London in 2012 by Jamie Jazz (singer/guitarist, formerly of The King Blues), Paul Mullen (guitarist of The Automatic and formerly Yourcodenameis:Milo, Julia Webb (vocals and keys/synths), Luke Godwin (guitarist), Tom Aylott (bass guitarist) and Paul Invisible Frank Lane (drummer) of The Voodoo Binmen. The band released its first four-track EP titled Let Your Heart Sing on 9 December 2012, preceded by a single of the same name. Their debut album All Sides of a Circle, is set to be released via Transmission Record in March 2015, from which three singles, "Anything Anything", "H.O.P.E." and "Pleased To Meet You", have already been released.

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Bonkers (song)

"Bonkers" is a song by English rapper Dizzee Rascal and American producer Armand Van Helden.

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Clive Langer

Clive Langer (born 19 June 1954 in Hampstead, London, England) is an English record producer and songwriter, active from the mid-1970s onwards.

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Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence.

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Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s.

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Dizzee Rascal

Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. A pioneer of grime music, his work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. He released his acclaimed debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003. It has since been considered a grime classic and earned him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English, and Tongue n' Cheek have been critically praised and certified platinum, with Tongue n' Cheek going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units in the United Kingdom. He has scored the number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco", "Shout".

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.

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Enter Shikari

Enter Shikari are a British alternative rock band formed in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England in 1999 under the name Hybryd by bassist Chris Batten, lead vocalist and keyboardist Roughton "Rou" Reynolds, and drummer Rob Rolfe.

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Flobots

Flobots are a hip hop and rock band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2005 by Jamie Laurie.

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Folk punk

Folk punk (known in its early days as rogue folk) is a fusion of folk music and punk rock.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Hevy Music Festival

Hevy Music Festival was a rock festival that took place annually near Folkestone Kent in the UK.

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Household Records

Household Records (initiated 2002 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label started by Petter Wettre to release his music.

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Independent Media Center

The Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC) is a far-left open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jonny "Itch" Fox

Jonathan "Jonny" Fox, better known simply by his stage name Itch, is an English rapper.

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Last Hours

Last Hours (known as Rancid News prior to 2005) is an anti-authoritarian publishing collective.

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Live Lounge

The Live Lounge is a segment on the British radio stations BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love Music Hate Racism

Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) is a music-oriented campaign based in Britain attached to the Anti-Nazi League and Unite Against Fascism.

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Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976.

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Mike Davies (broadcaster)

Mike Davies (born August 8, 1978) is an American firefighter and former disc jockey on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Murder of Sophie Lancaster

The murder of Sophie Lancaster occurred in the United Kingdom in 2007.

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Noel Gallagher

Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Paul Mullen

Paul Mullen (born 6 September 1982) is an English musician, multi-instrumentalist & singer songwriter who first gained recognition for being vocalist and guitarist of the band Yourcodenameis:milo, who went on hiatus in 2007.

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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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Pete Donaldson

Pete Donaldson (born 30 April 1981) is an English radio presenter.

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Phil Clifton

Phil Clifton is a British television and Sony nominated radio presenter, appearing on MTV (UK and Ireland), Radio X and formerly Channel 4.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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Punk & Poetry

Punk & Poetry is the third album by The King Blues.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Radio X (United Kingdom)

Radio X is a commercial radio station brand focused on alternative music, primarily indie rock, which is owned by Global.

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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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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rob da Bank

Robert John Gorham (born 24 June 1973 in Portsmouth, Hampshire), known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is an English DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival, originally on the Isle of Wight and now moved to Lulworth, Dorset and Camp Bestival, also in Lulworth.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Rollo Armstrong

Rowland Constantine O'Malley "Rollo" Armstrong (29 April 1966) is an English music producer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

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Save the World. Get the Girl

Save the World · Get the Girl is the second album by The King Blues.

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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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Ska punk

Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together.

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Spring.me

Spring.me was a social networking service.

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Status Quo (band)

Status Quo are an English rock band who play a brand of boogie rock.

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Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali (Punjabi, طارق علی; born 21 October 1943) is a British Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual.

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The Automatic

The Automatic (also known as The Automatic Automatic in the U.S.) are a Welsh rock band.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Specials

The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry.

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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

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Transmission Recordings

Transmission Recordings is a record label owned and operated by the Notting Hill Music group plc.

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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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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Under the Fog

Under The Fog is the debut album by The King Blues, originally released by Household Name Records in 2006 and later re-released on Field Records, a subsidiary of Island Records in 2008.

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What If Punk Never Happened

"What If Punk Never Happened" is a song recorded by English punk rock band The King Blues, and is the eleventh and final track on their second studio album Save the World. Get the Girl.

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Yourcodenameis:milo

Yourcodenameis:milo was an English alternative rock/experimental/post-hardcore band from Washington, Tyne and Wear.

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Zane Lowe

Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe; 7 August 1973) is a New Zealand-born radio DJ, Live DJ, record producer, and television presenter.

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3RRR

3RRR (pronounced "Three Triple R", or simply "Triple R") is an Australian community radio station, based in Melbourne.

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References

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

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