The Guillemots
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| Background information | |
| Origin | London, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Indie rock, Alternative rock |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels |
Fantastic Plastic Polydor The state51 Conspiracy |
| Website | guillemots |
| Members |
Fyfe Dangerfield Aristazabal Hawkes Greig Stewart |
| Past members | MC Lord Magrão |
Guillemots (sometimes written gUiLLeMoTs) are a BRIT Award nominated indie rock band formed in November 2004 by Fyfe Dangerfield. The band currently consists of 3 members: Fyfe Dangerfield, Aristazabal Hawkes, and Greig Stewart. Past members include MC Lord Magrão, who left the band in June 2013 to focus on his new band LUNGS.
Although formed and based in London, the band's members have been compiled from England, Scotland, Brazil and Canada. Their first album, Through the Windowpane, was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize. The band has experienced some chart success, with their single "Get Over It" reaching number 20 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2008. Their second album, Red, reached number 9 in the UK Albums Chart in the same month. After touring all through 2008 and Fyfe releasing a solo record the band finished their third record Walk the River released on 18 April 2011.
The band's fourth album Hello Land! was released 7 May 2012.
Fyfe Dangerfield began writing songs in his native Birmingham and then in Bromsgrove. His early band, Senseless Prayer, recorded a session for John Peel's Radio 1 show in 1999. Dangerfield then began song writing under the name "Fyfe Dangerfield and the Accident", and in 2004 he featured alongside Misty's Big Adventure, Mike in Mono, Dreams of Tall Buildings, and X Is Greater Than Y on a promotional CD that was offered free with The Birmingham Post, called Broader Than Broad Street. He then joined old school friend, Paul "Booby" Tooby, on his "Ragamuffin Blues but Holes in my Shoes" tour.
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