Seafood

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Seafood are frequently described as “A London post-grunge band”. This is patently not true. Kevin and drummer Caroline Banks are from Uxbridge in Middlesex, while David Line (guitar/vocals) and Charles MacLoed (guitar) were brought up in Guilford, Surrey. “It’s all outskirts of London,” says Kevin, defensively. “It might mean something I reckon, coming from that area. I found it pretty dull, personally.” Nobody around here has yet managed to work out what ‘post-grunge’ actually means. Seafood’s biographies often claim that the band formed via an advert in Loot, for a flat. This is extremely true. Caroline and Kevin wanted somewhere to live. David and Charles were looking for a boy drummer and a girl bass player. Kevin and Caroline (right sex, wrong instruments or right instruments, wrong sex, depending on your state of mind) just about fitted the bill. After two gigs in the summer of 1997 Seafood has already set the indie underground’s wires buzzing. After three gigs they could have been signed to Fierce Panda but that label’s A&R department got pissed at the Kerrang! party and turned up too late to see them. At their fourth gig - upstairs at Highbury Garage in October ‘97 - they were finally snapped up by a more sober Fierce Panda. Everything else is just confusion, pure and baffling. “We’re a very contradictory band,” muses Kevin. “We argue a lot,” fidgets David. They aren’t wrong.
[www.seafood.uk.com]

Surviving The Quiet
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As the Cry Flows
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When Do We Start Fighting
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Paper Crown King
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mikeydriven wrote:
last week

Great band - massively underrated, love 'em

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fuga24 wrote:
August 2008

Surviving the Quiet is all-time best album for me.

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le_dzedaj wrote:
July 2008

led by bison is like one of best pieces of music i ever heard. eternal fav ^^

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Lobsang wrote:
July 2008

1side- I'd recommend When do we start the fighting first. Its still my fave.

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shockolate wrote:
May 2008

Stupid world we live in, one of the best bands britain has produced in the last ten years and they seem to be almost ignored, utterly disgraceful! The silence is more beautiful than you will ever know!

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Treviz wrote:
March 2008

cant believe that such a great song like Last Outpost is not their most listened :( anyway now noone can call me stylenoob...

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erp wrote:
January 2008

1side0, you really, really can't go wrong, but for what it's worth I'd recommend this order: 1. Paper Crown King, 2. Surviving The Quiet, 3. As the Cry Flows, 4. When do we start fighting? But seriously, they're all amazing. Enjoy!

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1side0 wrote:
January 2008

..what's the best album to start listening to

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jeunesse_ wrote:
August 2007

madly under-appreciated

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palmdeutnom wrote:
August 2007

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jeunesse_ wrote:
January 2007

when do we start fighting - rules

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OriginalMrC wrote:
September 2006

Scratch that the new album is out and I have it. Great to see that Seafood have produced yet another belting album

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OriginalMrC wrote:
September 2006

Anyone know when the new album is out?

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dustcakeboy wrote:
May 2006

anyone have an mp3 of Seafood's rendition of the Littlest Hobo theme? I'm dying to hear it.

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