The Sunshine Underground

Leeds-based band The Sunshine Underground describe themselves as simply 'a party band'. They are a fine mix of indie and dance music infused with electronic beats and bleeps, funky bass lines and rousing choruses. Admitting themselves that making the same kind of music gets boring, The Sunshine Underground have a different offering in every track and, in their own words are '...writing music because they want to and playing it to other people because they want to hear it'.

It's been eight years since their explosive 2006 debut Raise The Alarm - a dance-punk record described by The Guardian as "every bit as jerkily compulsive as The Rapture's House of Jealous Lovers" - surfed the new rave wave into the UK's wider consciousness. The cultural permeation spread even further when Sony released the album in Japan. Two sold out tours resulted in a cult following of which the quite bizarre stories include boxes of Yorkshire tea being regularly waved in the air at gigs!