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THEY’RE A BIG BAND. Not Count Basie big. More like big heart and big ideas. Big emotion and big gestures. Big-time intensity and, most importantly, a big-ass sound. A big mixture of rock and soul. Big ambition, too. Progression, what with its tendency to offer no guaranteed returns, is rare in today’s world. Rarity makes paying witness to an artistic arc spanning several albums during which a band is allowed to grow into its ambitions a real treat. That’s why the Damn Seagulls, from Helsinki, Finland, make heads turn. After a mission statement of a first album and a prodigious...

Leeds punk five piece Eagulls was formed in 2011 by Mark Goldsworthy and drummer Henry Ruddel. The lineup was completed by Liam Matthews on guitar, Tom Kelly on bass and George Mitchell on vocals. Their debut single was released on NotEven Records (Moshi Moshi), “Council Flat Blues", followed by "EP" (Seaxbeat Records / Deranged Records) in 2012. “Nerve Endings”, their first single for Brooklyn's Partisan Records was backed by a version of Killing Joke’s ‘Requiem’ in 2013. Their eponymous album "Eagulls" was released in March 2014. http://eagulls.co.uk .

A Flock of Seagulls is a Grammy Award winning synthpop group formed in 1979 in Liverpool, England by brothers Mike Score (keyboards, vocals) and Ali Score (drums), joining with Frank Maudsley (bass) and Paul Reynolds (guitar), that gained popularity and subsequently infamy in the early days of MTV with the videos for their songs "I Ran (So Far Away)" (sometimes known just as "I Ran") and "Space Age Love Song" , the latter in which showcased lead singer Mike Score's distinct haircut. To this day, they remain firmly identified with their songs from the early 80s, international hit tracks that...

There are at least two groups called The Seagulls: 1. The Seagulls are an acoustic rock duo from Monterey, California. The group comprises Iapetus "Larson" Galt and Matthew "Buchholtz" Buchholtz. The two met at a secret government facility in Monterey and became friends after each discovered the others interest in The Moldy Peaches and Tom Waits. Almost two years later, the two moved to the Sandwich Islands and began playing what they call "revolution music," singing songs about Jesus Christ and the government into discount recording equipment from Radio Shack. Their newest album - described by the band as "a...