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Fenech-Soler
Fenech-Soler were an English electropop band from King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England, that formed in 2006 and consists of two members: Ross Duffy and Ben Duffy. Founding members Daniel Fenech-Soler and Andrew Lindsay left the band in 2016. The name Fenech-Soler is taken from Daniel Soler's full surname, which is Maltese. The band's sound has been compared to Friendly Fires and Delphic for their "hybrid of summery indie and big dance-inflected melodies". Fenech-Soler are signed to So Recordings. Career Fenech-Soler's self-titled debut studio album was released in 2010 and included three singles. The single "Stop and Stare" was named by BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James as 'Record of the Week' and 'Weekend Anthem' and Dutch public broadcaster NOS used "Demons" as an anthem for their 2010–11 UEFA Champions League broadcasts. Both "Lies" and "Demons" were playlisted by Radio 1. The band recorded a Radio 1 Live Lounge session for Jo Whiley in February 2011. On 13 March 2011, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rituals (Fenech-Soler Album)
''Rituals'' is the second studio album by British electropop band Fenech-Soler. It was released on 25 September 2013 by Warner Bros. Records and B-Unique Records. This album marked Fenech-Soler's major label debut. Their previous record was released independently. The album features the band' s follow-up to the band's 2012–13 singles "All I Know", "Magnetic" and "Last Forever". A special edition of the album with a new track listing was released a year later on 25 August 2014. This edition replaced the band's first full-length US release, (which was subsequently removed from online services). It features four tracks from their previous self-titled debut studio album. Packaging The artwork for ''Rituals'' features a photograph titled "Star Bows" taken by South African professional photographer Andrew McGibbon. The image depicts a horse named Star, illuminated by Strobe lighting, in a bowing pose. The photograph is part of McGibbon's collection "''All the Wild Horses''," which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Cliffe
King's Cliffe (variously spelt Kings Cliffe, King's Cliff, Kings Cliff, Kingscliffe) is a village and civil parish on Willow Brook, a tributary of the River Nene, about northeast of Corby in North Northamptonshire. The parish adjoins the county boundary with the City of Peterborough and the village is about west of the city centre. The village is not far from the Northamptonshire boundaries with both Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, and is about south of Stamford. Population The 2001 census recorded a parish population of 1,137 people, increasing to 1,202 at the 2011 Census. This later increased to 1,585 at the 2021 Census. The 1871 census recorded a parish population of 1,259. The 1891 census recorded the parish population as having fallen to 1,082, occupying 262 "inhabited houses" King's Cliffe is very small but is growing in size. There is a school named King's Cliffe Endowed Primary. It used to be located next to John Wooding's Groceries but in recent years, a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V Festival
V Festival, often referred to as V Fest or simply V, was an annual music festival held in the United Kingdom during the third weekend in August. The event was held at two parks simultaneously which shared the same bill; artists performed at one location on Saturday and then swapped on Sunday. The sites were located at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in South Staffordshire. In 2017, the final year of this format, the capacity of each site was 90,000. Richard Branson announced on 30 October 2017 that V Festival would be discontinued but that a new festival would replace it. In 2018, a new festival called "Rize" was held in on the same weekend as the "V Festival" but only at Hylands Park. However, on 5 August 2020, it was announced that the "V Festival" was to return to Hylands Park, without an audience (due to the COVID-19 pandemic), later that month. The "V" represented the Virgin Group, with the event being sponsored by Virgin Media. It was originally televised by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickstarts (song)
"Kickstarts" is a song by British singer Example. This is the third single from Example's second album, ''Won't Go Quietly''. The song was available to download on 13 June 2010, with a physical single release on 14 June 2010. Production was handled by British drum and bass musician Sub Focus and Dumfries Dance Music DJ Calvin Harris Critical reception Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review stating: Having scored that all-important breakthrough hit with 'Won't Go Quietly' earlier this year, Elliot 'Example' Gleave now faces the tricky task of following it up. The Londoner recently told us he was gunning for plenty of radio play and a well-received video with this one – but does 'Kickstarts' warrant that kind of attention? The answer is a resounding "Yes!" Example reckons producer Sub Focus has brought a "hardcore club edge to a lyrically poppy single" here – and he's not wrong, with lines like "You're my girl in a golden crown / Princess I don't wanna l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indietronica
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depend entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer: no acoustic waves need to be previously generated by mechanical means and then converted into electrical signals. On the other hand, electromechanical instruments have mechanical parts such as strings or hammers that generate the sound waves, together with electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers that convert the acoustic waves into electrical signals, process them and convert them back into sound waves. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (commonly referred to as simply Glastonbury Festival, known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. Films and albums have been recorded at the festival, and it receives extensive television and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury takes place on 1500 acres of farmland and is attended by around 200,000 people, requiring extensive security, transport, water, and electricity-supply infrastructure. While the number of attendees is sometimes swollen by Gate crashing, gatecrashers, a record of 300,000 people was set at the 1994 festival, headlined by the Levellers (band), Levellers, who performed on the Pyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Girl (singer)
Jade Williams (born 21 May 1988 in Sidcup, Greater London, England) professionally known as Whinnie Williams, is a British independent pop singer, interior designer and presenter. She founded interiors brand Poodle & Blonde in 2018 and is host for BBC 3 show ''Flat Out Fabulous'' since 2020. Williams grew up in Broxbourne. During her early teenage years, Williams was employed at a local pet shop where she worked every Sunday. Having not revealed her name to the other members of staff, Williams became known as ''Sunday Girl'', which would later become her music alias. Growing up, Williams was always shy when it came to performing and singing in front of people, so her mother took her to see a hypnotist when she was 17, and it helped her to overcome the fear. With her fear of performing gone, Williams joined many cover bands including a ska band, a jazz band, and a trio who did covers of '40s blues standards with a ukulele and double bass. Williams completed an Art Foundations c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remix
A remix, also sometimes called reorchestration or rework, is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, poem, or photograph can be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new. Most commonly, remixes are a subset of audio mixing (recorded music), audio mixing in music and song recordings. Songs may be remixed for a variety of reasons: * to adapt or revise a song for radio or nightclub play * to create a stereophonic sound, stereo or surround sound version of a song where none was previously available * to improve the fidelity of an older song for which the original audio mastering, master has been lost or degraded * to alter a song to suit a specific music genre or radio format * to use some of the original song's materials in a new context, allowing the original song to reach a different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Сочи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg, from – ''seaside'') is the largest Resort town, resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi (river), Sochi River, along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus of Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, and up to 600,000 residents in the urban area. The city covers an area of , while the Greater Sochi Area covers over . Sochi stretches across , and is the longest city in Europe, the fifth-largest city in the Southern Federal District, the second-largest city in Krasnodar Krai, and the Black Sea#Urban areas, sixth-largest city on the Black Sea. Sochi hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, XXII Olympic Winter Games and 2014 Winter Paralympics, XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. It hosted the alpine and Nordic Olympic events at the nearby ski resort of Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, Rosa Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnaya Polyana. It also hosted the Formula 1 Russian Grand Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening rounds in certain events were held on 6 February 2014, the day before the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, opening ceremony. These were the first Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency of Thomas Bach. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics, Paralympics were organized by the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, Sochi Organizing Committee (SOOC). Sochi was selected as the host city on 5 July 2007, during the 119th List of IOC meetings#IOC Sessions, IOC Session held in Guatemala City. It was the first Olympics to be held in a Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS state and former Warsaw Pact state after the Revolutions of 1989 and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band would be a major inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Example (musician)
Elliot John Gleave, better known by his stage name Example, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He released his debut studio album, '' What We Made'', in 2007, followed by the mixtape '' What We Almost Made'' in 2008. Example first found success in 2010 with the release of his second studio album, '' Won't Go Quietly'', which peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart. The album had two top 10 singles, " Won't Go Quietly" and " Kickstarts". Example's third studio album, '' Playing in the Shadows,'' was released in September 2011 and topped the charts with two number one singles, " Changed the Way You Kiss Me" and " Stay Awake". His fourth studio album, '' The Evolution of Man,'' was released in November 2012 and peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart. In 2013, Example released the lead single from his next album, entitled " All the Wrong Places", which peaked at numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
