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| The Electric Soft Parade | |
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| Origin | Brighton, England |
| Genres | Psychedelic, Pop |
| Years active | 2001 – Present |
| Labels | Truck Records (UK) Better Looking Records (U.S.) |
| Associated acts | Brakes |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Alex White Thomas White Matthew Twaites Damo Waters |
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| Former members | |
| Mathew Priest Matt Eaton Joe Harling Alan Grice Alistair Gavan Russell Gleason |
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The Electric Soft Parade are a Brighton-based psych-pop band, comprising siblings Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently including Matthew Twaites on bass and Damo Waters on drums.
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The band were signed to DB Records (a subsidiary of BMG) when they were still at secondary school. Their original choice for a name was "The Soft Parade" but were made to change it after legal action by an American The Doors cover band.
The Brothers' debut, Holes in the Wall was release in February 2002 to wide critical acclaim. With A&R and production from Chris Hughes, the album spawned two UK top-forty hits and led to performances on Top Of The Pops, Later With Jools Holland and a world-tour covering Europe, Japan and Australasia. They were also nominated for the 2002 Mercury Music Prize, where they lost out to Ms. Dynamite. They later won the Q Award for Best New Act.
The bands' second LP, The American Adventure appeared in October 2003 on BMG Records. Largely a response to their treatment at the hands of BMG (DB had by this point folded despite substantial sales, and the band had been automatically up-streamed), the album was seen as too much of a departure from their previous work, and the band were dropped.
The Electric Soft Parade returned in late 2005 with the six-track The Human Body EP on Truck Records. The U.S. version of The Human Body EP was released in May 2006 on Better Looking Records (their first official US release). ESP made their first U.S. appearance at the South by Southwest Festival in March 2006.
A third full album was released in April 2007. Entitled No Need to Be Downhearted, it was named after a lyric from The Fall's song "15 Ways" from their Middle Class Revolt album). The album was entirely self-produced, using Truck Records' rudimentary Portakabin studio in the Oxford countryside.
In March and April 2007 they made their second visit to the South by Southwest Festival, took part in a tribute to Billy MacKenzie at Shepherds Bush Empire in aid of Sound Seekers, and played a UK tour. There was also an extensive U.S. tour in May and June 2007 with Brakes and Pela.
July and August 2007 saw appearances at UK and European festivals in Holland, Austria, France, Switzerland and Germany. The final single to be taken from No Need to Be Downhearted, "Appropriate Ending", was released on 26 November as a digital download. It includes two covers, "Happiness" originally by Elliott Smith and "Friends Of The Heroes" by The Aislers Set. The band toured from October to December 2007 with shows in France, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. The beginning of 2008 saw shows in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France including dates supporting Ian Brown.
On 11 June 2008, The Electric Soft Parade supported Sparks at their Hello Young Lovers show - the last of a 20 concert extravaganza at the Islington Academy, London. As of this show, the band has been on indefinite hiatus.
At present there appears to be no new material or live shows planned, though various home-recorded cover-versions have been released through the bands' Myspace page over 2009. Thomas White continues to write and record solo material whilst playing in other Brighton-based acts such as Restlesslist and Clowns. Both brothers remain members of Brakes.
After being released from their label in 2004, the White brothers began collaborating with British Sea Power's ex-keyboardist Eamon Hamilton and bassist Marc Beatty, of Tenderfoot. The collaboration, known as Brakes, and in January 2005 signed to Rough Trade Records. To date they have released three critically acclaimed albums - two with Rough Trade (2005's Give Blood and 2006's The Beatific Visions) and one with Fat Cat Records (2009's Touchdown).
Thomas White released his debut solo album, I Dream Of Black, on 14 July 2008 through Drift Records in the UK, and Better Looking Records in the U.S. A follow-up, The Maximalist, will be released through Cooking Vinyl in March 2010. He spent much of 2009 touring and recording with Patrick Wolf.
For most of 2009, Alex has been co-writing, arranging and drumming on a new Pipettes album as well as assisting London-based band Official Secrets Act.
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