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WHERE THE VIDEO WAS SHOT - Yorhshire, England

Biography / All The Crooked Scenes

'All The Crooked Scenes' is the debut Album to come from Leeds-based Ellen and the Escapades. Ellens dusky, enchanting vocals and strikingly well crafted often bittersweet songs have already captured the attention of many. They hit their Pledge Campaign target in 8 days, showing just how eager the fans are for this release.

The past two years have been an exhilarating journey for this shy bunch. After wining 2010's Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition and playing BBC introducing stages at both Reading and Leeds Festivals, the band have gone from strength to strength supporting the like of King Charles, Josh T. Pearson and Paolo Nutini, bringing the bands music to even bigger audiences all over the country. Summer 2011 saw an abundant string of festival appearances for Ellen and co, including major festivals Glastonbury, Bestival and Green Man.

'All The Crooked Scenes' is preceded by the release of their next single, the title track of the album on the 2nd April, and a full UK tour including a home town show at the Brudenell Social Club on the 15th April, and an album launch party with the Communion boys at the Lexington on the 16th April.

Ellen and the Escapades are:

Ellen Smith
Jeff Schneider
Chris Quick
James Warrender

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WHERE THE VIDEO WAS SHOT - Llangollen, North Wales

Sophie is a singer/songwriter from N.Wales/Chester. An eclectic blend of acoustica, folk and indie-pop have seen her draw comparison to the likes of Laura Marling, Camera Oscura and Bon Iver.

Her recent efforts have seen the independent release of a 6-track EP "My Friend, The Moon" :) [available on iTunes/Amazon MP3 now!]

"Charming and sweet - far from saccharine" - Ian Lloyd Hughes, Daily Post

http://www.facebook.com/sophieballamymusic

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WHERE THE VIDEO WAS SHOT - Madrid

After being three years with a folk country duet, Natalí Castillo (19), decides to start her carrier as a young and sensitive singer / songwriter.

With a fresh and personal style, a lovely and special voice, Natalí's songs, talks about her experiences of life, her affects and her special point of view of living. She puts things in differents places, and create songs in her own deep way.

The songwriter born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She's been loving music forever. She studied at severals private music schools, plays piano, guitar, percussions, and sings, no stereotypes, like no one does in our days. Listen to jazz, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, and of course listen to folk music, loving CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Nick Drake, who made up her mind and inspired, to become a singer and musician.

Preparing her first album "From this side" , she's a great hope for the real music.

www.myspace.com/natalicastillosongs

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WHERE THE VIDEO WAS SHOT - Joanna's balcony overlooking the veg patch and farm, P.T.C, Barnsley, South Yorkshire in April 2011

The Horn The Hunt are a Leeds, England based pop duo, comprising of Clare Carter and Joseph Osborne.

The Horn The Hunt announce the release of their second album, Depressur Jolie, through White Label Music on 23 May 2011.

"Depressur Jolie is the first pre-conceived album we've written together. After releasing our debut album (in 2009) and establishing ourselves as a band, we knew exactly what we wanted our next album to be about. It would be colourful and bouncy with lots of different forms and textures, but have this dark underbelly throughout. We wanted to make a big pop album -- our ideal pop album -- full of bold, aggressive songs that have no loyalty to any particular sound or style.." explains Clare Carter, a visual artist and who, along with Joseph Osborne, makes up the Leeds-based pop duo.

"To us the album is like a colonial voyage, all steeped in British ambition and guilt. It starts with this ship sailing out over huge waves in the opening track, then land is sighted, we go ashore on this tropical volcanic island and bump into predators and carnivorous plants - the usual adventure story. There are a few battles, lava's flowing into the sea, coconuts are running out, you start to question why you left your home, homesickness descends."

The Horn The Hunt first began writing and recording songs in a flat in Sandnes, Norway in early 2008. Their music has taken them on a journey -- literally. During their travels the duo have been inspired by and written songs in places ranging from the frozen tundra of Greenland to a room carved into the side of a canyon in the middle of Spain, before finally settling into the bedroom studio in Leeds, where they are now based.

"When we returned to England after traveling for 3 years it felt like a huge adjustment going back to a regular job and domestic life. Like being sat in a cage made of pound coins, with loads of TVs and newspapers surrounding it. You can watch everything going on and educate yourself about things but you can't move from your designated place," says Clare. "I made the decision to take singing and songwriting seriously, and to start performing. It was a big scary deal to me, like a 'coming-out' process of being exposed, thrown into the deep end."

The Horn The Hunt's influences run the gamut, from the shadowy drama of Kate Bush and David Lynch, to the jagged snarl of Rammstein, The Fall, and Babes in Toyland and the pastoral elegance of The Knife and 19th-century Russian landscape painters Melanie and Goya. The Horn The Hunt's songs are equally magical and accessible, reminiscent of long forgotten folk stories, embellished with futuristic sounds and contemporary beats. They are continuing in a long tradition of analogue synth mastery -- their record label, White Label Music is co-headed by Ann Shenton, of Mute Records electronic pioneers, Add N to (X).

http://thehornthehunt.com/

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