Wave Machines
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Wave Machines is an alternative rock
band formed in Liverpool
in 2007. The band released singles The Greatest Escape We Ever Made and I Go I Go I Go on Chess Club Records before signing with Neapolitan Music Limited in 2008. Two further singles, Keep The Lights On and a newly recorded version of I Go I Go I Go, followed.
The band's debut album Wave If You're Really There was released in June 2009. It was reviewed favourably by NME
.
The group has performed on BBC 6 Music
on shows presented by George Lamb
and Marc Riley
. It performed live at Jodrell Bank Observatory for Jodrell Bank Live on 2 July 2011.
Wave Machines won the 9th annual Independent Music Awards
Vox Pop vote for best Dance/Electronica song Keep the Lights On.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band formed in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
in 2007. The band released singles The Greatest Escape We Ever Made and I Go I Go I Go on Chess Club Records before signing with Neapolitan Music Limited in 2008. Two further singles, Keep The Lights On and a newly recorded version of I Go I Go I Go, followed.
The band's debut album Wave If You're Really There was released in June 2009. It was reviewed favourably by NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
.
The group has performed on BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
on shows presented by George Lamb
George Lamb (presenter)
George Martin Lamb is a Scottish-born British radio and TV presenter. He is the son of actor Larry Lamb.-Career:Lamb's radio career peaked with presenting his own daytime show on BBC Radio 6 Music for two years from October 2007 to November 2009, before being moved the early weekend mornings for 6...
and Marc Riley
Marc Riley
Marc Riley is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger...
. It performed live at Jodrell Bank Observatory for Jodrell Bank Live on 2 July 2011.
Wave Machines won the 9th annual Independent Music Awards
The Independent Music Awards
The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists and releases in more than 50 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories....
Vox Pop vote for best Dance/Electronica song Keep the Lights On.
Singles
- I Go I Go I Go (Chess Club, 23 Jun 2008)
- The Greatest Escape We Ever Made (Chess Club, 27 Oct 2008)
- Keep the Lights on (Neapolitan, 27 April 2009)
- I Go I Go I Go (Neapolitan, 8 Jun 2009)
- Punk Spirit (Neapolitan, 7 Sep 2009)