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unusual facts about The Horrors



Backcombing

In addition to Robert Smith of The Cure, British comedian Russell Brand is well known for his distinctive backcombed hairstyle, as are both Faris Rotter and Joshua Third of The Horrors, Brandon Jacobs of Neils Children, Harry B. Wade former guitarist of My Passion, Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh, Helena Bonham Carter, and Australian comedian and musician Tim Minchin.

No One Can Ever Know

The album also yielded two companion releases: No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes, featuring remixes from Liars, Com Truise, and Tom Furse from The Horrors, and N/O/C/E/K Tour EP, a limited release featuring alternate and demo recordings.

Szam Findlay

Dandi Wind released 2 full length albums, 5 eps, and a handful of singles amidst extensive global touring alongside bands such as Klaxons, The Horrors, The Presets, Final Fantasy, Simian Mobile Disco and Broken Social Scene.

The Dandies

During the last few years they have played various venues across Switzerland & Europe supporting bands such as, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Band of Skulls, The Horrors Sixteen Deluxe, & Children Collide as well as playing many international festivals such as Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, Exit (festival), South by Southwest & Reeperbahn festival.

The Voom Blooms

Having supported The Paddingtons, The Horrors, The View, Milburn, Larrikin Love, Babyshambles and Boy Kill Boy, and played at Manchester's In the City and Leicester's Summer Sundae festivals, The Voom Blooms have concentrated on recording their debut album.

The Waterfront, Norwich

The Waterfront, Norwich has hosted bands including Pulp, Radiohead, Marina and the Diamonds, Nirvana, The Verve, Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Buzzcocks, Plan B, MGMT, Babyshambles, Travis, Moby, Ellie Goulding, Foals, Inspiral Carpets, The Horrors, The Cribs, The Undertones and Feeder.

XL Recordings

Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Beck, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire Weekend, The Horrors, Electric Six, The xx, Gil Scott-Heron, Jai Paul, Tyler, the Creator, Sigur Rós, Peaches and Adele.


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Another Happy Ending

Its sad, yet hopeful lyrics were inspired by the horrors of September 11, specifically the many World Trade Center workers who dove to their deaths from upper floors of the building.

Black Devil Disco Club

A new record, Circus, is scheduled to be released April 11, 2011, and features Nancy Sinatra, Afrika Bambaataa, Faris Badwan (the Horrors), YACHT, Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion), Aja Emma (Cosmetics), CocknBullKid, Nancy Fortune, and Nicolas Ker (Poni Hoax).

Crimplesham

In 1854 a Mrs Elizabeth Doyle, living at Crimplesham Hall, invited Benjamin Benson, a former slave, to address the schoolchildren on the horrors of slavery.

Gloria Victoria

Gloria Victoria uses mixed media techniques to create images that evoke bloody battlefields and the horrors of war, with imagery of combat and massacres from the bombing of Dresden in World War II to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to Star Wars, in a style inspired by expressionism, constructivism, cubism as well as surrealism.

Haren Das

Unlike artists such as Somnath Hore, who reacted with brutal directness to the horrors of the 1943 Bengal Famine, Haren Das remained focused upon his vision of a rural ideal.

James Hoyt

As a warrior who had seen the horrors of war, he opposed the invasion of Iraq, his son said.

Jewish Territorialist Organization

In response to the horrors of Kishinev, England’s Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain proposed to Herzl the creation a semiautonomous region on the Uasin Gishu plateau in British East Africa for Jewish settlement.

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

The founding of MAZON was inspired by the horrors of the Ethiopian famine of 1985, and was conceived by former Moment Magazine publisher Leonard Fein, who wanted to build a bridge between the Jewish community and millions of hungry people around the world.

Naftoli Carlebach

In the year preceding World War II, he narrowly escaped the horrors of the Holocaust through the aid of Rabbi Naftoli Neuberger, the principal of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, who sent him an entry visa.

Sevastopol: On Photographs of War

The power of word and image together makes Sevastopol an unusual and moving poetic experience, linking us with those who did not escape the horrors and misery of man's most grisly occupation.

She Is the New Thing

B-side "Sister Leonella" featured backing vocals by members of The Horrors' families and friends.

Shot Through the Heart

The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends and expert sharpshooters Vlado Selimović (Linus Roache) and Slavko Stanic (Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo.

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Zlata Filipović

From 1991 to 1993, she wrote in her diary, Mimmy, about the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.