The Rhythm Sisters, an English

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...

 acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

/pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 duo from Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, emerged in 1987 with the album

Album

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, Road to Roundhay Pier. Sisters Mandi and Debi Laek released their first single

Single (music)

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, "American Boys", which reached number seven in the UK Independent Chart, while touring extensively in the UK and Europe with The Proclaimers

The Proclaimers

The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid . They are probably best known for the songs "Letter from America", "I'm On My Way" and "I'm Gonna Be ". The band tours extensively throughout Europe and other continents...

. They have used various session musicians and their line up

Line up

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s have included Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton

Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.-Biography:...

 from The Jam

The Jam

The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...

, Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson (musician)

Bill Nelson is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter and experimental musician...

 from Be-Bop Deluxe and Steve Stones from UK Subs

UK Subs

The U.K. Subs are an English punk rock band, among the earliest in the first wave of British punk. Formed in 1976, the mainstay of the band has been vocalist Charlie Harper, originally a singer in Britain's R&B scene. They were also one of the first street punk bands.-Career:The U.K...

. In 1990 they worked with Nelson on the album Willerby, released the following year.

Albums

• Road To Roundhay Pier (1987), Red Rhino - UK Indie #19
• Willerby (1991), Imaginary
  Imaginary Records
  Imaginary Records was an independent record label based in Heywood, Lancashire, England, which specialised mainly in indie rock and post-punk. It was created and owned by Alan Duffy, known for his lyrical contributions to Porcupine Tree's first two albums, On the Sunday of Life and Up the...
  
  
• Tell Me How Long The Boat's Been Gone (2007), Radio Geronimo

Singles

• "American Boys" (1987), Oval Records - UK Indie #7
• "Infotainment" (1991), Imaginary

External links

• MySpace site
• http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/6869/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37M8DhxrjM
• http://www.billnelsonmusic.com/usarchives/discography/session.htm