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  • Genre: Alternative / Electro / Electronica

    Location Bristol, Please select your region., Un

    Profile Views: 673479

    Last Login: 1/31/2012

    Member Since 12/14/2005

    Website www.kosheen.com

    Record Label moksha recordings

    Type of Label Indie

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    sian evans, darren beale , markee morrison

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  • Matty James

    lots of love n light to o you all....would be nice to see you  around again sian....no one seems to use myspace since they changed it all

    9 months ago
  • Mathylou

    Cheer for your universe and your voice! I like very much! Thank for the add! 

    1 year ago
  • Gary

    I want to do some music which is simular to yours. Finally i've found a band that's inspiring. That Damage album blows me away. May be i could work with you guys on a project one day. 

    1 year ago
  • Colum

     Hi Kosheen, Greetings from Northern Ireland. I'm a recent convert to your music, keep up the good work. cheers, Colum

    1 year ago
  • antonio danese

    Your music is great! 

    1 year ago
  • Claudi P.

    He...

    When will we see you again in Leipzig/Germany...

    We look forward :)

    1 year ago
  • Alonka Classy

    WE LOVE YOU KOSHEEN !

    1 year ago
  • JAela Breton

    Merry Christmas !!

    1 year ago
  • Barabara Kluth

    u r the best!!!im a big fan of yours!!!

    1 year ago
  • mrSschizo

    Torun still impressed. Hope to see you soon!

    1 year ago
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Kosheen Biog
Once in a while, a band comes along that doesn’t just ignore the rule book, but rewrites it. Since forming in the late 90’s, Kosheen have proved that success doesn’t have to come on someone else’s terms. Fusing the plaintive, potent vocals of singer Sian Evans with the darkly intimate electronica of Darren Decoder and Markee Substance, Kosheen create songs where the sounds tell the story as much as the lyrics while the boundaries of genres are blurred and challenged.

The foundations of this revolution were laid years earlier when music changed the lives of all three of the band members. Darren Decoder - aka Darren Beale - played and wrote music for years in various punk bands at school in Weston-Super-Mare, always recording their efforts and so developing a simultaneous interest in the production side. When he went to university in 1989, though, he realised something was missing.
“I was getting bored of the sound of the guitar,” he remembers. “I was putting it through so many effects and pedals that it wasn’t even sounding like a guitar any more anyway.”
His salvation came in the form of a young Geoff Barrow, future founder of Portishead.
“When I met Geoff, he introduced me more to the electronic side of music. What he showed me with samplers and stuff just blew me away! I’d never seen that before.“
Spellbound, Darren sold his guitar, bought an Atari and a sampler and never looked back.
“That was at the same time that the whole rave scene was going off which had a big impact on me as well. I loved Orbital and 808 State, so I started writing lots of electronica and got a deal really early. Then I used to write hardcore stuff for raves and then did some really ambient drum n’ bass like LTJ Bukem before I started Djing at raves and parties with Markee in Bristol. I followed the whole path of electronica really.”

Together, Darren and former Glaswegian indie kid Markee Substance created the seminal Ruffneck Ting club nights around Bristol and the South West. Raised on The Smiths, Echo and The Bunnymen and, later, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, Markee became instrumental in the burgeoning drum n’ bass scene. “It literally was a few people in a pub with a couple of decks. It’s been over ten years since that pub gig!”

The pair soon got to know, Sian Evans. Brought up in a small town in South Wales, Sian had left home at 16 and moved to Cardiff to escape, living in squats and friends houses while working several jobs at once and travelling to parties and festivals all over the country. At the height of the rave scene, in 1991, she gave birth to her son, Yves, and was forced to reassess her priorities. For the next four years, Sian and her son split their time between environmental protests like Newbury and working at summer festivals. It was all she needed to give her a taste for living outdoors and so in 1996, Sian moved into a tepee on a traveller’s site in the Brechfa forest for nine months.
“I just thought it looked like a lovely way to live,” she says, “and I wanted to give him the freedom to run around and have some amazing memories.” At night, after Yves went to bed, Sian passed the time by writing songs. Despite being brought up writing poetry and listening to Welsh folk music and Joni Mitchell, it was the first time Sian had felt moved to create music.
“I used to keep diaries as a kid and turn them into poems and I’ve found that writing is better than talking sometimes. It’s always been a great way to getting things off my chest.“
Realising her future lay with these songs -in fact, most of them went on to form the tracks on Kosheen’s debut album, ‘Resist’ - she soon moved back to Bristol to find someone to play them with.

Enter Darren and Markee. “I hadn’t even taken my coat off in the studio and I was writing songs with them, though I was quite nervous to begin with. Until I was with Kosheen, I didn’t think of myself as a songwriter. I knew I could sing but I didn’t have a lot of faith in my writing. I just thought it was something I did for me. I was told once when I was working with my first band in Cardiff when I was 15 that I was just a singer and I should stand in the background and wiggle my arse. That scarred me for long time actually. With Kosheen, I’d sing stuff to Markee and he’d say it was beautiful.”

As a trio, the band learned they could combine their respective loves of rock, hip-hop, jazz, drum n’ bass and folk and still create songs with a heart. “I love songs!“ Sian states simply. “Songs that start, have a middle, and end. People were expecting little loops and quirky vocals and they got full songs. You can put too much in a track. You can have a busy vocal, or you can have a busy track, but if you put two together it’s just noise to me.”

The world agreed they were something special. Kosheen’s compelling, anthemic track ‘Hide U’ reached number 6 in the UK, while ‘Catch’ hit number 15 and ‘Hungry’ reached number 13. The accompanying album, ‘Resist’, went on to reach number 8 in the UK and made the top 30 in Australia, The Netherlands, Belgium and Greece. It has since sold half a million copies worldwide.
“I remember being in Vienna waiting to hear how our album had done,” begins Sian. “We really wanted it to go well. The boys came into the dressing room and told me to guess the position. I said 15. They said no, lower. And I went oh no.. 20? And they were going, no! Lower the other way! It went in at number 9 and I think I burst into tears! I couldn’t believe it.”
“I nearly fell over,” Darren adds. “It was so weird.”

’Hide U’ won ‘Best Remix’ at the Muzik Dance Awards and Record of The Year at the Dancestar USA Awards in Miami. “It wasn’t an overnight thing,” Markee explains. “Word of mouth played a massive part and I have this theory that people actually do appreciate quality things. We’ve always said that, at the end of the day, if you put your heart into your music, if you’re feeling it, then you’ve got a chance that someone else will feel it too.”

Ignoring the accepted protocol that dictates ‘dance’ acts don’t play live, Kosheen then set off on tour. With their debut album (now Platinum–selling) ‘Resist’ this equated to an impressive 141 shows in 33 countries to an audience of over a million. “I cut my teeth on pub gigs in Wales,” Sian says, “so I really wanted to get the music of Kosheen represented live. The songs really translated because they’re very melodic. A lot of them were written on the guitar and we can actually do most of them unplugged too. When you strip a song down like that and it still works, you know it’s a good song. A lot of people are surprised when they go into the gig and see a full band set up with a drum kit and everything. But no one’s been disappointed.”

In fact, crowds of up to 17,000 have since seen the band play in Europe, Australia, South Africa, Asia, even America where fans who had only heard Kosheen via Napster knew all the lyrics before anything had ever officially been played there. The LA Times went so far as to proclaim the band one of four hot new electronica acts to watch for. In summer 2001, Kosheen further cemented their reputation as a world-class live act by performing to a 20,000-strong crowd in Serbia, the first international band to do so since the trouble in the Balkans.

“On the plane on the way over there we were all looking at each other going why the fuck are we going to Yugoslavia?” Markee grins. “We didn’t have a clue what to expect. And suddenly there was 20,000 people all singing “Catch” back at us. Me and Sian just looked at each other on stage as if to say, fucking hell! What’s going on?!”

Inevitably while on tour, Kosheen turned their attention to their second album. Enthused by the incredible reception they had received live, they began writing songs with that in mind, tracks they knew would sound great on stage. The resulting record - named ‘Kokopelli’ after the North American Indian symbol of fertility, individuality and music - was a hypnotic, intimate collection of songs from the soul. It became Kosheen’s highest UK charting LP, going in at number 6 and helped earn them their second Brit Award nomination.

Darren said “I think it’s harder and darker than the last album, and a lot more personal too. There are more guitars in there too but it’s not your standard rock album. We’ve taken elements of rock and all different types of music, which we enjoy and fused it all together to come up with something slightly different. I don’t ever want people to expect anything from us.”
Crucially, while the music sounded darker and more apocalyptic, Sian’s lyrics grew more personal, as she revealed herself track by track. While the bleak ‘Recovery’ told of a feeling of not fitting in, coupled with excess of drugs or alcohol, ’All In My Head’, the first single released from “Kokopelli” and going straight into the chart at number 7, was the ultimate long distance love song, inspired by a phone conversation between Sian and her own partner, describing the lover who may be physically distant but can always be present in your mind.

After sell- out UK and European tours promoting “Kokopelli”, Kosheen have been back in the studio to work on their third Album. This album, "Damage", is shaping up to be a perfect amalgamation of the unique electronica elements of “Resist” and the guitar-rock of “Kokopelli”. New tracks, “Guilty” and “Overkill”, have been previewed at all the major UK and European Festivals over the summer and already have the audience singing-along to them.

The new album, "Damage" featuring "Guilty" & "Overkill" was released in Europe in March 2007. The UK Edition of Damage was released in September 2007 and featured two additional brand new tracks "Professional Friend" and 'Analogue Street Dub"....


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