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The Coral
The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool. The Coral consists of James Skelly - lead vocals & semi - acoustic guitar, Ian Skelly - drums, Bill Ryder-Jones - lead guitar, bass guitar & trumpet, Nick Power - organ, keyboards & vocals, Lee Southall - rhythm guitar & vocals, and Paul Duffy - bass guitar & saxophone. The band plays an unusual style of music which is a mixture of old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelica and folk with modern rock'n'roll influences. Their self-titled debut album was nominated for the 2002 Mercury Prize and later voted the fourth best album of the year by NME Magazine. The Coral's distinctive musical style has strongly influenced many of the other Liverpool-based label's acts, including The Zutons, The Dead 60s and The Basement. Hailed as the first English band of the "guitar group revival" the band released the critically acclaimed EPs Shadows Fall, The Oldest Path, and Skeleton Key in 2001. After a hectic year they took it easy with recording yet again another critically-acclaimed album Magic and Medicine in 2003 reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart. In 2004 they began recording The Invisible Invasion. The Coral are set to tour with Arctic Monkeys during the summer festival gigs. The band released the single "Who's Gonna Find Me" on July 30, 2007 followed by the album Roots & Echoes on August 6, 2007. (Source: www.wikipedia.org)
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