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Feeder are an independent rock band who formed in Newport, South Wales in 1992. The band are Welsh singer/guitarist/songwriter Grant Nicholas, Japanese bass guitarist Taka Hirose, and English drummer Mark Richardson. more...

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The band is also accompanied on tour by second guitarist Dean Tidey of The Sandstone Veterans. The band's original drummer, Welsh-born Jon Lee, committed suicide in 2002.

To date the band have sold over a million certified albums in the UK according to the BPI's searchable database , with three of those certified Platinum and 3.5 million records worldwide at the end of 2005. Their debut album "Polythene" received a rare 10/10 rating and a #1 ranking by Metal Hammer magazine in their 1997 albums of the year list, making it one of the top 10 most critically successful albums of the same year. One of the biggest names in Welsh music, they have also won an award at Wales's biggest music awards of 2005 for their UK #2 album "Pushing The Senses", which is one of their five top 10 albums to date.

The band are very loyal supporters of the charities War Child and Oxfam, and in 2006 also visited The Congo on a charity trip organised between them and War Child to find out how the country has been benefiting from the money raised, as well as to raise awareness on the forcing of young people to become soilders during the civil wars the country has lived though. Many have died in fighting as a result.

History

Swim - Echo Park

The band's first release was the 1995 "Two Colours EP" a limited edition of 1500 vinyls and 1000 CD's. After this was the 6-track mini-album, "Swim", originally released in June 1996 and later re-released with bonus tracks in 2001. This was followed by their first full-length effort, "Polythene" which seen 4 top 75 hits. Following the release of the album, the band performed a number of small gigs and the main stage at the Reading Festival. In 1998, the band played a major gig at the V Festival, and also toured the US and UK with Everclear, swapping support and headline slots. This ended in a sellout two-date show at the London Astoria.

The band returned to the US to tour extensively, and following it's unclusion on the soundtrack to the film Can't Hardly Wait, "High" became a rock chart hit, making #24 and spending 14 weeks in the top 40. The majority of the material due to appear on the band's second LP was written during this period.

The band's second release, 1999's "Yesterday Went Too Soon", met with little more mainstream success than their first, debuting at #8 on the UK charts. In 2001 their third full-length album "Echo Park" proved a commercial success. Singles from the album entered high in the charts, with songs such as "Buck Rogers" and "Seven Days in the Sun".

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