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  Origin Leeds , England
  Genre Indie
  Years Active 2000&ndashpresent
  Label City Rockers
  URL http://wwwtsuarmycouk/
  Current Members Craig Wellington<br>Stuart Jones<br>Daley Smith<br>Matthew Gwilt


The Sunshine Underground are an English , Leeds based Indie Rock band. The Sunshine Underground play a variety of punk, funk and indie, featured on their debut album, '' Raise The Alarm '', released by City Rockers on August 28 2006 . The group is named after a song by The Chemical Brothers .


BIOGRAPHY

The band are originally from Shrewsbury and Telford , and formed while studying at New College, Telford. After new college the band moved to Woodhouse in Leeds where the band started to develop its sound.

They sold out venues in London and Leeds on their first headline tour. Following their successful support slots for LCD Soundsystem , the group earned the Live Band of the Year trophy at the Leeds Music Awards.

Work on their debut album, '' Raise The Alarm '', was completed in May 2006 and was released on August 28 , 2006 . They appeared on the 2006 spring/summer European festival circuit.

November sees the band play even more gigs, at increasingly large venues throughout the UK, including cities like Glasgow, Preston, Barnsley and London with the addition of other concerts in May 2007. Most notably they played the Other Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in June and played a headline set on the future stage at T In The Park in July and are set to play at the Leeds/Reading Festival in August 2007. Playing on the NME stage.


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