Honeyroot is an

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collaboration between

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and Keith Lowndes, signed to the independent record label Just Music.

Career

The project had its origins in the 1997 album '' Skyscraping'' by

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. As ABC was essentially

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, after the departure of founding member Mark White, Lowndes and fellow

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native Gregory of

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, were brought in for co-songwriting duties on the album. Lowndes and Gregory's first album, ''Sound Echo Location'', was released in the UK and Australia in 2003 and in the US in 2004. Honeyroot reached the UK Singles Chart in May 2005 with their ambient

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of the

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song "

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", which also appeared in the Scottish film, '' Red Road''. 2006 saw an

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only release entitled "EP1". ''The Sun Will Come'' (2007) featured two

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, the double A-sided "Nobody Loves You (The Way I Do)" b/w "Heavy Drops" and "Where I Belong". Though known primarily as the front man for Heaven 17, Glenn Gregory sings on just two tracks on ''The Sun Will Come''; leaving remaining

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duties to a variety of female singers including Briony Greenhill ("Nobody Loves You"),

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, Kerry Shaw, Elsie Wooley and Lindsay Crisp.

Discography

Albums

* ''Sound Echo Location'' (2005), Just Music * ''The Sun Will Come'' (2007), Just Music

Singles

" (2005) - UK #70 * "Nobody Loves You (The Way I Do)" / "Heavy Drops" (2010), Just Music * "Where I Belong"

References

External links

Official siteGlenn Gregory interviewBBCJust MusicHoneyroot information
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