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Rainbow -Spotlight Kid Play Video

Rainbow -Spotlight Kid

This song is from album Difficult to Cure 1981. This is very good song, and I think this is best quality in Youtube of that song. Lyrics: You don't know what's happening, you want to go home but there's nowhere to...

Rainbow - Spotlight Kid (Live )HD Play Video

Rainbow - Spotlight Kid (Live )HD

Live Between The Eyes is a concert that was filmed in San Antonio, Texas, in August 1982 during the Straight Between The Eyes tour. The Final Cut, first issued in 1987, contains eight of the later Rainbow promo...

Spotlight Kid - Plan Comes Apart Play Video

Spotlight Kid - Plan Comes Apart

Directed by Martin Shearman-Brettle bit.ly . Archive footage directed by Lutz Mommartz bit.ly .

Rainbow - spotlight kid Play Video

Rainbow - spotlight kid

Rainbow の spotlight kid です。

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Spotlight Kid Biography

Spotlight Kid are a Nottingham-based shoegaze band whose original lineup of Six By Seven drummer Chris Davis on drums, Rob McCleary & Katty Heath (formerly of Bent) on vocals, Karl Skivington & Chris Moore on guitars and Matt Holt on bass.

The first album Departure was released on Club AC30

In 2009 Spotlight Kid released Crystal Dreams, a four track EP, released on Two & One Records. In 2010 they followed this with a limited edition 7" vinyl double A-Side "April/All is Real" on Club AC30

The band have recently finished recording their new album which was released in September 2011. Recorded at [http://www.purplestudios.co.uk Purple Studios] in two days, each track was recorded with the full band playing each track live in one take.

Live, Spotliight Kid have supported The Joy Formidable, Esben & The Witch and will be playing at the 2011 Glastonbury festival. Selected by a panel that included Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq, Jo WIley, Tom Robinson and Emily Eavis they will be appearing on the BBC introducing stage.

Spotlight Kid's music draws influences from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Lush and Swervedriver. It features mixtures of shoegazing, Krautrock and 1990s psychedelic rock.

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