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Under a Banner

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Under A Banner

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Anna Kendrick - Cups (jellosea remix)

Final mix of the 'B' side of our upcoming 7" single!

2013 'Harold's Eye' Single Mix

Tired City Love

Higher

From The Debut Album "That's Life"
Available Here:
https://havemercylasvegas.bandcamp.com/

Pappy

Track 4 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountain range amongst other themes.

Sierra Nevada (From our Acoustic EP)

Track 3 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about growing up in the West Midlands county of England in the 1980s.

Song of the Middle Land

Track 2 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about hope, dreams, inadequate housing, the barriers between people, tin mining and, above all, spirit.

It's Spirit

Track 1 from our four track Acoustic EP. A song about empowerment and adhering to one's beliefs.

The Call

Don't Give Me Hope is the debut single released on 'darlingtonsmusic' on 25/11/13.

THE DARLINGTONS - Don't Give Me Hope

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Dirt (The Seed)

Title track from our upcoming album which you can  buy here: https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Close To The Clouds

'Numbers' from our  album 'Close to the Clouds' which you can download in full here https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Numbers

English Soul taken from Under A Banner's second album 'Close to the Clouds'.

English Soul

City Alone from our album 'Close to the Clouds' played on BBC Radio

Under a Banner - City Alone

Here is the exclusive song we gave to a number of people who pledged to help release our second album 'Close to the Clouds' It is a song about existential doubts arising from a contemplation of the vast and cloudless expanse of Mediterranean skies. This song features the 10 stringed cittern and acoustic guitar.

Forever's Face

06 Hollywood

Lisboa

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Elia & The Low Tears - Violins

A great tune to dance to - our take on a rousing Irish jig!!

When We Used to Dance

Buy the debut single Sure Enough here;
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id962416181

Live acoustic version below;
http://youtu.be/L63bg-XoPr4

She Had It All

W: www.allsheknows.co.uk
F: facebook.com/allsheknowsmusic
T: twitter.com/allsheknows
Y: youtube.com/allsheknows

Can You See Me Now? - All She Knows

ELIA & THE LOW TEARS - Sweet Lies

Some Stories (radio edit) 3.38

Five piece London band Carlito present their brand new single “Dreams” The song is a charged indie-rock number, taking influence from Iggy and the Stooges, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Clash. Find out more on their official website at www.carlitomusic.co.uk

Produced by Lyall Williams (@lyallwilliamsmusic) and Engineered by Martin Merenyi.

Dreams

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What follows is a review by an online music blogger who, at the time of writing, did not know the band personally:

 Under A Banner  Jan 14
 by Themistocles 
Under A Banner are a wonderful discovery. The dream of traditional England flows through the work of this Midlands outfit, blending folk-styled music with the ideals of punk – a haunting, ethereal throwback to real English folk traditions mixed with the revolutionary fight and inspiration of bands like New Model Army.

The themes differ – from the evocative and powerful “Inseperable”, gentle melodies of the guitar subtly underscored with the sombre interludes of the violin and all topped with soaring, mysterious vocals in a tale of love and loss – to the passionate and idealistic self-proclaimed drinking song: “First Light” – ‘Into the city we go, Straight through ’til we see the first light of tomorrow’. In this case, the words assisted with clanging electric guitars tinging the idealism with aggression, a call to arms, almost.

However, the real joy for me lay in “The Scream”, an impassioned cry for freedom, to break loose and live: “Now raise your head from the shadows and scream, just scream; They kept you so quiet for so long… The sound of your beautiful scream” – primacy, anger and fascination with the fundamental elements of human nature, finding joy in simplicity and the release. Combined with the rapid acoustic guitars and pulsing rhythm of the drums, along with the dark natural imagery (“the storm” and “the noise”), the song becomes an insistent repeat, a rallying cry against stagnation and repression:“We love to create to destroy” – our freedom is most important.

Under A Banner are a breath of fresh air in a music scene stagnating and dying with manufactured pop, here is a band calling back to the earliest days of musical expression and bringing it back   in a whirlwind of acoustic guitars, poeticism and passion. A band you can stomp your foot and sing along to, and to whom you want to follow forward, as they so wisely put it, with “beer, wine and song” – an admirable sentiment indeed.

The Call

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