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The Dream Academy

The appropriately named Dream Academy, an British folk-rock trio who hit it big in the first 1980s using the bucolic, Baroque pop single “Existence inside a Northern City,” formed in London in 1983 round the considerable talents of vocalist/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist (primarily oboe) Kate St. John, and keyboardist Gilbert …

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Trashmonk

Cyber-folkie Trashmonk was the truth is singer/songwriter Nick Laird-Clowes, best-known for fronting the pastoral folk-pop music group the Fantasy Academy. Born Feb 5, 1957, his rather exceptional story starts in earnest at age 13, when he went from his Western world London home to wait the Isle of Wight celebration; …

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