The sudden departure left Morley to improvise a performance consisting of his reading an essay over Art of Noise recordings and three people dancing to " Beat Box " and " Close ( To the Edit )".

Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK.

The Go Team was a 1980s band from Olympia, Washington, consisting of Tobi Vail and Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening.

In 1961 Dave Brubeck appeared in a few scenes of the British Jazz / Beat film All Night Long, which starred Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough.

* 1956 – Dave Wakeling, English musician ( The ( English ) Beat and General Public )

General Public was a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexys Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash.

After the 1983 break-up of The Beat ( known as The English Beat in North America ), Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger decided to continue working together in a new venture.

Since 2004, Dave Wakeling has toured the US with a full backing band as The English Beat.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

They were joined by bass player Dave Renwick who had also played with Bronski Beat.

In the mid-1990s Nixon collaborated on albums with Jello Biafra ( Prairie Home Invasion ), Dave Alvin, and members of the Beat Farmers, including Buddy " Blue " Seigal ( Live in Las Vegas by the Pleasure Barons ).

Dave Wakeling's reformation of The English Beat in July 2009.

After the break-up of The Beat in 1983, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger went on to form General Public and had a couple of hit singles in North America, while Andy Cox and David Steele formed Fine Young Cannibals with vocalist Roland Gift from the ska band Akrylykz.

Dave Wakeling fronts the US version of the group as The English Beat.

The sons of actress Dodo Denney, they were the only constant members, though guitarist / bassist Cliff Roman, bassist Dave Trout and drummer Nickey " Beat " Alexander were relatively long-term Weirdos.

The 1981 list of bands included Red Ice, Selector, Theatre of Hate, Sugar Minott, Doll by Doll, Thompson Twins, Night Doctor, Merger, Androids of Mu, Deaf Aids, Killerhertz, The Raincoats, Thandoy, Foxes and Rats, ICU Lightning Raiders, Psycho Hampster, Misty in Roots, Andy Allens Future, Inner Visions, Red Beat, Man to Man Triumphant, Stolen Pets, Seeds of Creation, Coxone Sound System Black Widow, Here and Now, Hawkwind, Steel and Skin, The Lines, Waiting for Arnold, Play Dead, Cauldron, Lighting by Shoe, Flux of Pink Indians, The Mob, Treatment, Popular History of Signs, The Wystic Mankers, Elsie Steer and Cosmic Dave.

The actor David Rappaport was Best man, and Dave Wakeling from The Beat gave O ' Connor away.

120 days, Aaron, Abd Al Malik, Acoustic Ladyland, Adamo, Adrienne Pauly, Agoria, Akli D, Akron Family, Alexander Kowalski, Amon Tobin, Babet, Beat Assailant, Benjy Ferree, Bloc Party, Brigitte Fontaine, Bromheads Jacket, Bunny Wailer, Capleton, Cassius, Cold War Kids, Death Before Disco, Deerhoof, Dub Incorporation, Dubmood, Eiffel, Elista, Emily Loizeau, Enter Shikari, Ephel Duath, Erik Truffaz Quartet, Exson Valdes, Feist, Florent Marchet, Francesco Tristano Schlimé, Galaxy Naast, Goose, Gotan Project, Guns of Brixton, Hommage à Ali Farka Touré avec Hamadoun Tandina & Amadou Bagayoko, Herman Düne, Improvisators Dub & Iration Steppas, Ivan Smagghe, J. Tillman, Jacques Higelin, Jamika, Jeanne Cherhal, Jesse Sykes, Joan As Police Woman, Joanna Newsom, Joeystarr, Julie Doiron, Juliette Gréco, Just Jack, Justice, Katel, Khalid K, Kruger, Laurent Korcia, Les Fatals Picards, Plastiscines, L ' Oiseau Bleu, Loney Dear, Mademoiselle K, Malouma, Mamani Keita, Manimal, Mano Solo, Marie Cherrier, Maxïmo Park, Mayra Andrade, Metronomy, Mick Est Tout Seul, Miossec, Missill, Mitsoura, Mystic revelation of rastafari, Nadj, Nelson, Nosfell, Olivia Ruiz, Oxmo Puccino and The Jazzbastards, Pave, Peter Bjorn & John, Peter von Poehl, Phoenix, Pierre Lapointe, Pravda, Riké, Rocé, Rose, Sanseverino, Seb Martel, Shannon Wright, Sikth, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Socalled, Son Of Dave Syrano, Tekel, The Automatic, John Butler Trio, The John Venture, The Konki Duet, The Procussions, The Rakes, Third World, Tinariwen, Transmission 0, TTC, Yelle, Daddy Longlegs ( Découverte du Printemps )

* Dave Wakeling, singer and songwriter, founder of The Beat ( band )

It was co-produced by Graham Parker and The Rumour keyboardist Bob Andrews and included a dancehall version of Neil Young's " Powderfinger " and Country Dick singing of " Beat Generation " with backing vocals from Dave Alvin, Nick Lowe, Gene Taylor, Dan Stuart, and Loudon Wainwright III.

Guitarist Stu Mason, drummer Tim Desmond, and former Bronski Beat / Communards bassist Dave Renwick left the band in 2010, as work was due to start on a new album.

Under the leadership of news director Irv Weinstein, who had developed his own similar format under the name Eyewitness News ( and before that, Pulse Beat News and Rock and Roll Radio News ), WKBW developed much of the talent that WPVI would later hire to boost them to # 1 in the market ; anchor Jim Gardner ( replacing Larry Kane when he moved to WABC in New York ), weatherman Dave Roberts, and iconic voice-over artist Jeff Kaye are the three highest-profile WPVI personalities to have come from WKBW.

Featuring present-day jazz legends such as William Parker, Tim Berne, Charlie Hunter, David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp, and augmented by DJ Spooky, Dave Lombardo, Meat Beat Manifesto, U. K. electronica titans Spring Heel Jack, and hip-hop innovators El-P and Antipop Consortium ( to name just a few ,) the Blue Series acknowledges jazz's luminescent past without allowing it to smother its artists ' desires to pave new ground.

Up, Bustle and Out are musicians and recording artists-DJ D. " Ein " Fell ( also known as Clandestine Ein ) and producer-performer Rupert Mould ( also known as Senor Rudy ) from Bristol, Senor Cuffy ( Spanish Guitarist ), Dave Cridge ( Beat Keeper and tour / soundsystem dj ) UK.

He has produced many national and international award-winning saxophonists, including first place winners and finalists in the North American Saxophone Alliance Young Artist Competition, semifinalists in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition ( Luis Hernandez 2002 ; Dave Pietro 1991 & 1996 ), and winners in Down Beat Magazine Student Music Solo Awards.

Nigel Lewis and Mark Robertson went on to play together in the Escalators with Woodie ( drums / Guitar ) and Bart Coles ( vocals / bass ), a psychedelic rock band ( although with a similar sound to Nigels Meteors vocal tracks ) and released a couple of singles and an album which is widely regarded as one of the very best on the Big Beat record label.

* She sang backing vocals on the Blondie album Eat to the Beat.

Beat groups — even those with a separate lead singer — often sang both verses and choruses in close harmony, resembling doo wop, with nonsense syllables in the backing vocals.

Hackett's 1980 album, Defector, features an unusual number called " Sentimental Institution ," recorded with a solo Optigan spinning the " Big Band Beat " disc behind singer Peter Hicks ' vocals.

* Rebecca Barnard – vocals (" She Answers the Sun ", " Beat of your Heart ")

* Renee Geyer – vocals (" Beat of your Heart ")

* Steve Almaas ( bass, vocals )-he later joined Beat Rodeo

Even though the album The Big Beat did not turn out to be a commercial success, the music and vocals of charismatic singer attracted the attention of connoisseurs and demanding music listeners.

It is best known to modern audiences by its singles featuring Palmer Brown on vocals, the oft-remixed " My Beat ," and the tribute anthem " I Remember House.

Paul Kamanski, who wrote several songs on previous Beat Farmers releases, appeared on vocals and guitar.

They released their first single " I Walk " in 1997, but it was not until the year after that they gained mainstream commercial success with the song " Beat Goes On ", a remixed cover of the Sonny Bono song, using the all-female vocals from Buddy Rich's version ).

Paul switched to lead vocals, Mick switched to bass, and the two joined guitarist Tracii Guns and drummer Nickey " Beat " Alexander and later on guitarist Robert Stoddard to complete this line up.

This meant that by the time Wolfstone supported Runrig at their ' Beat the Drum ' concert at Drumnadrochit on the banks of Loch Ness, Stuart Eaglesham had returned to lead vocals.

The first lineup of the band featured Bruno Langer ( a former Beat Stones, Fantomi, Logaritmi, and Boomerang member, bass guitar ), Sergio Blažić ( vocals ), Dragan Gužvan ( guitar ), Eduard Kancelar ( keyboards ), Saša Dadić ( drums ), and Rudolf Grum ( backing vocals ).

In 2005, The Beat re-formed, counting Roger and Everett Morton of the original line-up, with Ranking Junior also on vocals.

They have performed as a backing band for Robert Plant, who contributed guest vocals on their album Roll the Dice They also performed together at the Birmingham Heart Beat 86 charity concert.