Grand National is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 musical group from London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 who have toured extensively throughout Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The project is a collaboration between Rupert Lyddon (born 1975, Amersham

Amersham

Amersham is a market town and civil parish within Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England, 27 miles north west of London, in the Chiltern Hills. It is part of the London commuter belt....

) and Lawrence Rudd (born 1976, Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which is within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, south west of Bristol, spanning the coast between the bounding high ground of Worlebury...

), who also is a DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and remixer. Their sound is reminiscent of early forays into electronic sound manipulation, New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 and psychedelic soul

Psychedelic soul

Psychedelic soul, sometimes called black rock, is a sub-genre of soul music, which mixes the characteristics of soul with psychedelic rock...

. As a live act the band usually adopt a six-piece format.

Remixes

Grand National have provided remixes for Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...

's track "Chocolate

Chocolate (Snow Patrol song)

"Chocolate" is a song by UK alternative rock band Snow Patrol. It was released as the third single from their third studio album, Final Straw. The music for the track was written by all four members of the band, while the lyrics are by lead vocalist Gary Lightbody.The single version is slightly...

" from the 2003 Final Straw

Final Straw

UK re-release bonus tracks*The AOL sessions feature frontman Gary Lightbody & lead guitarist Nathan Connolly being interviewed, and performing an acoustic rendition of "Run".*The dualdisc version does not include the UK bonus tracks....

album and Client

Client (band)

Client are an English electronic musical group from London. They are most popular in Germany where they have had limited commercial success...

's "In It For The Money

In It for the Money (song)

"In It for the Money" is a song by the English electronic group Client, released as the lead single from their second studio album, City . The single peaked at number fifty-one on the UK Singles Chart...

". Sasha

Sasha (DJ)

Sasha is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s...

 reconstructed the track "Talk Amongst Yourselves" for his progressive house project that became the compilation Involver

Involver

Involver is a progressive house and breaks mix compilation by Sasha. Tracks which Sasha admired by other artists were chosen for this album and have each been remixed to give Sasha's own interpretation of them. It received generally favorable reviews for its track selection and creative mixing...

.

Albums

Date	Release
24 May 2004	Kicking the National Habit Kicking the National Habit Kicking the National Habit is the debut album from British dance-rock duo Grand National. The album was released in the UK in May 2004, and then in the US almost two years later in March 2006...
30 April 2007	B-Sides, Remixes and Rarities B-Sides, Remixes and Rarities B-Sides, Remixes and Rarities is a compilation album from British dance-rock duo Grand National. The UK-only release collects all of the band's B-sides and two remixes from their Kicking the National Habit album.-Track listing:...
18 September 2007	A Drink and a Quick Decision A Drink and a Quick Decision - UK version :-References:...

Singles and EPs

Date	Release
8 December 2003	"Peanut Dreams" (a.k.a. "Grand National EP")
19 April 2004	"Talk Amongst Yourselves"
2 August 2004	"Cherry Tree"
1 November 2004	"Drink to Moving On"
29 August 2005	"Playing In The Distance"
25 February 2008	"Animal Sounds"
21 April 2008	"By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of a Place for Me"