Motor City Shuffle

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Motor City Shuffle
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Motor City Shuffle exists to perform a rawkus brand of Melodic Indie Pop that would fill any Indie Club Night Dance Floor.

The Relationships
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The Relationships were conceived in late 1994 when Richard and Pete from Oxford pop sensation The Anyways teamed up with ex-Razorcut Angus, reviving a partnership that had commenced in the legendary mid 80s combo Here Comes Everybody (home also to future Talulah Gosh/Heavenly guitar man Pete Momtchiloff). Strumming guitars and doing crosswords in a damp East Oxford basement, the original trio - Ramage/Stevenson/Lock - wrote a few songs and came up with their semi-anagrammatic new name. The Relationships. (It was either that or Slack Games No Never).

They came to the attention of the California-based Anglophiles at Twee Kitten, who put out the 1998 EP 'Country Catalogue' and the 2000 album Trend, which featured guest appearances from Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly and Andy Bell of Ride/Oasis. Pete Lock then departed and a new stabilized line-up of Richard Ramage (vocal, guitar), Andy Smith (bass), Angus Stevenson (lead guitar), and Tim Turan (drums) released the album Scene in 2005 on the new Trailer Star Records label of Nottingham, England. In 2008 the band have recorded a new album which should be out by early next year.

My First Tooth
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"A boy plays guitar and sings, a girl plays violin/melodica/bouzouki and sings and the whole thing is very, very lovely." - www.soundsxp.com