Motörhead picked up their first Grammy in the awards of 2005 in the Best Metal Performance category for their cover of Metallica ‘s ” Whiplash ” on Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Tribute . “They’ve managed to get the knife in,” Lemmy grumbled. “It was only a mercy fuck – it…
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In 2005, the band left their long-time management team, Q Prime , and signed with HK Management.
It was voted ‘Album of the Year’ for 2005 by NME
Following their first tour supporting the Thrills , the Kooks recorded their debut album, Inside In/Inside Out , at Konk studios in London in 2005. Though media attention was dominated by the release of the Arctic Monkeys debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not on the…
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The band opened and performed several of their singles at the Philadelphia Live Eight concert in 2005.
On 20 September, a compilation containing the band’s appearances on BBC Radio 1 and a concert recording from Paris Theatre, London, was released as BBC Live & In-Session . In October, the band toured Europe with Mondo Generator before returning to Britain to tour with In Flames and Girlschool in…
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Bauhaus reunited again in 2005, playing the Coachella Festival in Indio, California . Their set opened with Murphy being lowered upside-down to the stage while singing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”.
In 2005, XFM News reported that Blur would record an EP, and denied that they would hire a replacement guitarist for Coxon.
Taking their name from the David Bowie song with the same title , Pritchard said the first song they played as a group was a cover version of the Strokes ‘ ” Reptilia “. The Kooks recorded an EP demo, sending it out in search of gigs; they instead received…
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The top twenty singles ” Everyday I Love You Less and Less ” and ” Modern Way ” followed in late 2005.