Denzil

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Denzil is the name of at least 2 different artists: 1) In April 1994, an album called pub was released in the USA on Giant Records (WEA) by a then little known UK band called denzil. The album went on to widespread critical acclaim, with major press such as the LA Village Voice, Rolling Stone, the NME and Interview Magazine giving the album hysterical reviews. By the end of 1994 pub had been nominated for two Grammy Awards, picked up significant radio and the band had supported the release with three exhaustive, nation-wide US tours, playing to thousands of people in 30 US markets. Then it appeared that they disappeared….. denzil were formed in Bournemouth, England during 1990 by singer/songwriter Denzil Thomas. Thomas had been playing folk clubs for about a year when he met producer/bassist Steve Ennever in a Bournemouth studio. The product of this meeting was the release of a local cassette called “A Tape Called Denzil”. Ecstatic local press reviews saw thousands of tapes being sold in a matter of months. By the time the band proper hit a stage in September 1990 they were already the most popular draw in town. Over the next year or so denzil played far and wide in the UK, first picking up alternating drummers Andy Place and Jeremy Stacey (now Sheryl Crow’s sticksman) and later finding an extraordinary guitarist called Craig Boyd in nearby Portsmouth. In 1992 the band attracted the attention of former William Morris Agency and Famous Music A&R Michael LeShay when a frien

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