Rocketgoldstar From Cardiff,Wales,UK. Power,pop, and very prog. In 2000 Rocketgoldstar signed a record deal with FFvinyl and released their first proper commercial release in June with the very well recieved semi concept EP "Soul of a Nu Machine". The band achieved a certain amount of national exposure with a couple of typically quirky events in May 2000 prior to the EP launch. These included the ambitious 12 hour single (a song played live with no breaks for 12 hours!) released as a continuous download (hampered somewhat by the dial up modems of the day!) and the groundbreaking "Silent Gig". This was a concert performed using digital equipment and no amplifiers with the whole audience wearing headphones! Assisted by Roland UK this event was claimed to be the first of its type in the world. Their FFVinyl album debut followed in september 2001 called "Soft Eject" Three singles were extracted from the album and were released in this period: "When in the Darkest Night", "What are you Singing About?" and "Steamboat to Nowhere". Three radio one sessions, one peel session (with MC Mabon), five Radio Wales sessions and one live XFM session were completed around this time. The follow up to Soft Eject was recorded by /Coil/Spititualized member and Julian Cope producer Thighpaulsandra but unfortunately has not been released as of yet. The group only venture out to gig occaisonally these days but with a new album imminent and a new record deal in place, 2009 could well see a retu

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