The Sunshine Underground

The Sunshine Underground
The three members of The Sunshine Underground
Background information
Origin	Leeds, England Telford, England, Shrewsbury, England
Genres	Indie, dance, electronic
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Lovers
Website	http://www.thesunshineundergroundofficial.com/
Members	Craig Wellington Stuart Jones Matthew Gwilt
Past members	Daley Smith

The Sunshine Underground (often shortened to TSU) are an English alternative dance band based in Leeds. They play a variety of pop, alternative and electronic music, and to date have released three full-length albums; Raise the Alarm (2006) and Nobody's Coming to Save You (2010) and their most recent self-titled album. The group, named after a song from the 1999 album Surrender by The Chemical Brothers, are often associated with the British nu-rave scene of 2006 and have built a respectable live following after years of touring.

The band are originally from Telford and Shrewsbury, and formed while studying at New College Telford. After New College the band moved to Woodhouse in Leeds where they started to develop their sound and ultimately hyped up by the NME to became one of the original acts dubbed "nu-rave" alongside Klaxons.

In 2005 the band signed to City-Rockers label (London) and began work on what was to become their debut album Raise the Alarm. Work was completed in May 2006 and was released on 28 August 2006 on City-Rockers/Sony. The main bulk of the album was recorded in two weeks at The Dairy with Producers Steve Dubb and Seggs while the rest was recorded in various studios in London with Rob Harder, Dan Kahuna + J.C.

"Put You in Your Place" was their 7" debut single, which was released on 18 July 2005 and had been limited to 1,000 copies. The single had been re-released on CDS and 7" Single and is the band's most successful single to date, reaching number 39 in the UK Singles Chart in August 2006.

Following the release of the album the band embarked on several UK and European tours. Festival appearances in the UK in 2007 included Glastonbury Festival, T in the Park and Reading and Leeds festival (Radio One/NME stage). The success of the album in the UK was mirrored in Japan (also released on Sony) which saw the band complete two Japanese tours and various festival appearances including Summersonic and British Anthems. Also in 2007 the band were chosen by the NME to be part of the NME New Rave tour alongside Klaxons, CSS and New Young Pony Club.