Sing-Sing were an English

England

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 indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

/dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...

 band formed in 1997 in London

London

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. It consisted of vocalist Lisa O'Neill and guitarist/vocalist Emma Anderson

Emma Anderson

Emma Anderson is an English musician. She is best known for being a songwriter, guitarist and backing singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band, Lush. As a keen music fan, she used to write a fanzine called Alphabet Soup with school friend Miki Berenyi when she was a teenager...

, formerly of Lush

Lush (band)

Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...

. They worked with a variety of musicians to achieve a unique and eclectic sound which nodded to 60's girl groups, electronica and folk. The band released 2 albums and a variety of singles on Bella Union

Bella Union

Bella Union is an independent record label that was started up by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie in 1997.After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they...

, Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

 and Poptones

Poptones

Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation...

 and finally on their own self created label, Aerial. They toured the States twice in 2002 taking in both SXSW in Austin and CMJ in New York. Both the band's albums were produced by Mark Van Hoen

Mark Van Hoen

Mark Van HoenMark Van Hoen is an electronic music artist. He has created music under his own name as well as Locust, and Autocreation. He was a founder member of the influential group Seefeel...

 but they have also collaborated with the Mad Professor

Mad Professor

Mad Professor is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or...

 (remixed I'll Be in a Lovers Rock

Lovers rock

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 style), Robin Guthrie

Robin Guthrie

Robin Guthrie is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing...

 of Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...

, cellist and string-arranger Audrey Riley

Audrey Riley

Audrey Riley is a cellist and string arranger based in the UK. Riley trained at the Guildhall School of Music with Leonard Stehn and was a cellist for Virginia Astley from 1983 to 1986 and a one-time auxiliary member of The Family Cat. She has been a member of the post-minimalist band Icebreaker...

, Tim Keegan

Tim Keegan

Tim Keegan is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist.Keegan has recorded and performed with various bands and as a solo artist. He has worked with a number of noted musicians including Robyn Hitchcock – he can be seen in Jonathan Demme's film about Hitchcock, Storefront Hitchcock – and...

 (Departure Lounge

Departure Lounge (band)

Departure Lounge were an English musical group consisting of:*Tim Keegan - lead vocals, guitar*Jake Kyle - bass, trumpet*Chris Anderson - guitar, keyboards, saxophone, oboe*Lindsay Jamieson - drums, keyboards...

 vocalist) and 4AD artist Vinny Miller

Vinny Miller

Vinny Miller is a British singer-songwriter and record producer, once signed to the 4AD label.He first came to musical prominence in 1998 as a 4AD signing under the moniker Starry Smooth Hound, releasing a track co-produced by Guy Fixsen on the label sampler Anakin.Two singles, "Pigpen" and...

 . Live musicians for touring included 'Shifty' aka Michael Scrivens (bass), Poppy Gonzalez (keyboards), Miguel Morland (drums 1998-2000), Jenny Jones (trumpet and keyboards) and Darren Groucutt (drums 2000-2002) and Dominic del Torto (guitarist and backing vocalist 2005-2006)

At the end of December 2007, they announced via their mailing list and website that they had decided to disband:

"After 10 mostly very happy but sometimes very difficult years we have decided to 'call it a day' (i.e. end) with Sing-Sing. In 2006 Emma moved to Brighton, East Sussex where she is involved in music publicity and last year Lisa wed her long-term partner Run Wrake, moved to the Kent countryside and is enjoying her newly found freedom as a mum and freelance graphic designer. Even Mark van Hoen, our erstwhile producer, is moving to the USA later in 2008."

The Joy of Sing-Sing (2001)

1. "Everything" (Anderson) 3:14
2. "Tegan" (Anderson, Cipriani, O'Neill) 4:52
3. "I'll Be" (Anderson, Benson, O'Neill) 3:34
4. "Me and My Friend" (O'Neill) 3:40
5. "Far Away From Love" (Anderson, Van Hoen) 3:41
6. "Panda Eyes" (Anderson) 4:01
7. "Command" (O'Neill) 4:25
8. "Feels Like Summer" (Anderson, Bloom, Cordell, Gentry, James) 4:08
9. "Emigré" (O'Neill) 4:09
10. "You Don't Know" (Anderson) 4:26
11. "Underage" (Anderson) 3:08
12. "I Can See You" (O'Neill, Van Hoen) 9:56

Released by Poptones

Poptones

Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation...

 Records. "Keep It That Way" (also released as one of the b-sides to "I'll Be") follows "I Can See You" as a hidden track

Hidden track

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.

Sing-Sing and I (2005)

1. "Lover" (Anderson) 2:28
2. "Come, Sing Me A Song" (O'Neill) 3:38
3. "Mister Kadali" (O'Neill) 3:59
4. "A Modern Girl" (Anderson) 3:49
5. "Ruby" (O'Neill) 3:25
6. "I Do" (O'Neill) 3:32
7. "Going Out Tonight" (Anderson, O'Neill) 3:35
8. "Unseen" (Anderson) 4:34
9. "The Time Has Come" (Anderson) 3:46
10. "When I Was Made" (Anderson) 4:03
11. "A Kind Of Love" (O'Neill) 6:45

Released by the band's own Aerial Records. Also includes multi-media version of Lover with animated cartoon video.

Singles

• Feels Like Summer (1998, Bella Union
  Bella Union
  Bella Union is an independent record label that was started up by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie in 1997.After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to take a step towards independence and started up the Bella Union record label, through which they...
  
  )

Track Listing :
Feels Like Summer (Anderson) 4:11/
Hit and Run (O'Neill, Van Hoen) 3:59/
Command (O'Neill) 4:25

• I Can See You (1999, Fierce Panda a double A-side with Linoleum
  Linoleum (band)
  -History:Caroline Finch and Paul Jones first met in 1991, and began writing songs together. Finch and Jones were joined in 1994 by Dave Nice , and in 1995 by Emma Tornaro , and the band signed a management deal with CMO at the end of 1995. The band set up their own Lino Vinyl label and all...
  
  )
• I'll Be (2000, Aerial/Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
  
  )

Track Listing :
I'll Be/
Western/
I'll Be (dub)

• Feels Like Summer (remix) (2000, Aerial/Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records
  Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
  
  )
• Tegan (2001, Poptones
  Poptones
  Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation...
  
  )
• Panda Eyes (2001, Elefant Records
  Elefant Records
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  )
• Madame Sing-Sing EP (2004, Aerial)

Track Listing :
Ruby (O'Neill) 3:25/
A Modern Girl (Anderson) 3:47/
Every Day (Anderson) 3:57/
I Do (I Re-Do Mix) (O'Neill) 3:32

• Lover (2005, Aerial)
• Come, Sing Me A Song (2006, Aerial)

Track Listing :
Come, Sing Me A Song/
Mister Darkness

Other appearances

• Feels Like Summer appears on the 1999 Polish compilation 'Now To Jest Twoja Muzyka 06' ('Now That's What I Call Music 06') alongside Britney Spears, Geri Halliwell and Robbie Williams (Universal Music Polska 1999)
• Feels Like Summer appears in the 2005 film "Shelf Life" directed by Tamar Halpern.
• Lover was used in Episode 4 ('Fog') of the 2006 US TV series Saved (TV series)
  Saved (TV series)
  Saved is a medical drama television series, which was broadcast on Turner Network Television in 2006. The series was created by David Manson....
  
  .
• Come, Sing Me A Song appears in Season 2, Episode 20 ('Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole') of the TV Series, Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
  
  . It then appeared on Volume 2 of the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack as an iTunes exclusive.
• A Modern Girl was used by The Body Shop
  The Body Shop
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   in their 2006 'Make Me Fabulous' make-up campaign (online and in-store).
• Sunbathing appeared on "Never Lose That Feeling Volume 2" on Club AC30 Records in 2005. This was a cover of the Lush song, written by Emma in 1990.
• When I Was Made appears in the 2007 movie Numb (film)
  Numb (film)
  Numb is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Harris Goldberg. According to an interview with Goldberg on a bonus feature of the DVD release, he was inspired to write the screenplay by his own experience battling depersonalization disorder and clinical depression.-Plot:When modestly...
  
  .
• Come, Sing Me A Song will appear in the 2011 film "Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life" directed by Tamar Halpern.

External links

• Official MySpace site
• [ Sing-Sing] at Allmusic