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Passion Play
12+ albums
Gothic RockgothGothicgoth rocknew wave
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There are multiple artists named Passion Play: 1) Passion Play is a gothic rock band from Oxford, UK. The group first arrived on the scene in the summer of 1997, appearing at the Sacrosanct festival at London's LA2. With a line-up of Justin Stephens (lead vocals, guitar), Linda Lloyd (guitar, vocals) and Mike Watkins (bass), a new demo, 'Waiting In The Wings', was released. Two previous demos featuring founder member Mark Bosley on bass and sharing vocals during Passion Play's formative stages ('Act One:Scene One' in 1995 and 'Character Assassinations' in 1996) went out of print. Slowly but surely, the band started to infiltrate the UK alternative/goth scene, with 1998 seeing appearances at the inaugural Infest event in Bradford, the Whitby Gothic Weekend and the arrival of their debut single - the Name No Names EP. Released on the band's own Perimeter label and distributed world-wide via Resurrection Records' export network, the EP helped put Passion Play on an increasingly wider stage, gaining a lot of interest in the UK and Europe. The following year saw more shows in London and around the UK, before going back into the studio in the summer of 1999 to record their debut album, Stress Fractures. The album was launched in November '99 at the Whitby Gothic Weekend, where the band played the main event, before heading off for their first gig in Germany. Passion Play toured the UK in the Spring of 2000 to support the release of Stress Fractures before heading back to Germa
