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NME award-winner Jamie Treays is a 25-year-old singer/songwriter hailing from Wimbledon, South London, England. He is signed to Virgin Records but released his Betty and The Selfish Sons EP on his own Pacemaker Records label in 2007. His musical style is hard to place, but incorporates elements of rap, reggae, and acoustic genres. Although at the time of writing Jamie has received relatively little mainstream exposure, he has received airplay from BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, who made "Salvador" his single of the week and "Back In The Game" his Hottest Record In The World.

Professor Green is an english rapper from East London, currently signed to Virgin Records, after Mike Skinner's The Beats label closed, and ended a run of his own radio shows on BBC Radio 1. Having fortified his name storming through the hip-hop battle rap circuit, East London native Professor Green dropped his debut album on Mike Skinner's The Beats label (via Warner's). Growing up on the Northwold estate in Upper Clapton, Green's familial situation saw him being raised by his grandmother while he traded up school attendance for just hanging on the estate, like kids do.

There is more than one artist with this name: 1. A British pop/rock band 2. An American pop punk band 3. A Japanese pop group (Friends) 4. A Swedish pop group 5. An Australian rock band 6. An American math rock band 7. A British psych-folk group 8. An American indie pop band from Bushwick, New York City. 9. A Japanese noise-pop band. (友人) 10. An American Jazz-Rock group from the 1970's. 11. An incorrect tag for music from the television series "Friends"

Chas & Dave were Cockney pop rock music artists, often billed as Chas 'n' Dave or erroneously as Chaz 'n' Dave. Their full names are Chas Hodges (piano, vocals, banjo, guitars) and Dave Peacock (bass guitar, vocals, banjo, guitars), with Mick Burt on drums. They were regulars on British TV from 1975 onwards and had hits like "Gertcha", their first, as well as "Rabbit" and "The Sideboard Song". Their music was featured in a TV beer advertising campaign which also helped to establish them in the United Kingdom.

Republica are an alternative rock band from England, United Kingdom who were formed in 1994 by Samantha Sprackling (lead singer, aka Saffron), Tim Dorney & Johnny Male. Other members have been Andy Todd, David Barbarossa, Pete Riley & John Lane. Described, by Sprackling: "techno-punk-pop-rock". Their most successful single is Ready To Go (used as a football match into', on Sky Sports, for much of the 90s).

