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The Maisonettes was a one-hit band from England whose single, "Heartache Avenue", reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1982. The song was later sampled by UK rap group Roll Deep, for the chorus on their UK Top 40 hit, "The Avenue". The Maisonettes' oddness lay not so much in their hit as their combination of maverick indie record label beginnings with a semi-manufactured image that some indie purists might find crass. Their hit, "Heartache Avenue," entered the UK chart in late 1982 and rose all the way up to number seven. Like most of the music they...

Peter Blanchette invented and plays the 11 string archguitar. See http://archguitar.com/ .

Though the Gongmaison album was initially intended to be the self-titled debut album of the Gong offshoot featuring band mainstays Daevid Allen and Didier Malherbe, over time it has come to be considered a part of the discographical continuum of Gong proper. Within a couple of years, this version of the band began simply calling itself Gong anyhow. Allen, who founded Gong in the late ‘60s, had worked briefly with the members of Material as New York Gong ten years earlier, but had then returned to Australia and become involved in a variety of other projects. In 1989, along with...

A Blanched nasceu em Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, em 2001. Formação: Daniel Galera - baixo, guitarra Douglas Dickel - guitarra, baixo, acordeon Leonardo Fleck - guitarra, baixo, vocais Marcelo Koch - bateria Priscila Wachs - flauta transversal .

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