The Sunshine Underground是不折不扣的音樂"混血兒"，你別想沿用傳統思路的給他們歸類。 關于The Sunshine Underground唯一能確定的是，他們聽覺狂歡般的音樂能頃刻間抓住你的耳朵。樂隊的名字來自Chemical Brothers的一首歌。沒錯，他們就是喜歡重重的節拍。Craig說：" 我們是一個party樂隊。" 首張專輯《Raise The Alarm》完美結合indie-rock和跳舞音樂。《Wake Up》、《Dead Scene》讓你領略鼓手Matthew Gwilt 和貝斯手Daley Smith跨越funk、disco-punk的風格。但是，你不能叫他們 New Rave。也許他們的DNA里有Daft Punk，但畢竟他們太擅長融各種元素于一爐--別忘了，他們還深受Blur 和Radiohead影響。 六年前, Craig和樂隊其他成員在 英國的Shropshire上學。"在大學，我們基本上無事可做。" 就是這些不愛上課的小伙子，今天成了英國獨立音樂的拯救者。但是他們始終保持著樸實低調的心態和自己的音樂風格。現今的所謂"地下"音樂人拋出100英鎊做發型是件尋常事。但是 SU 對這些華而不實的事情不感興趣。"我們只是普通的年輕人。"Stuart說，"有些人喜歡用外貌表達自我，這沒問題，但是我們對這個沒興趣。 他們對當明星、上報紙頭條也不感興趣。他們只想擁有喜歡自己音樂的樂迷。Craig說："我們做音樂就是為了和那些喜歡音樂 的人分享，不是為了出名。這和當明星不是一回事，音樂是我們的工作。我們不指望發財，只要十年后不用去快餐店吃漢堡就好-- 那就混得太慘了。"他真的不必擔心，不管他們愿意不愿意，The Sunshine Underground已然顯露了音樂大牌的氣象...... by Margaret Reges Armed with an angular, beat-heavy sound similar to that of Franz Ferdinand or the Kaiser Chiefs, the Sunshine Underground got their start playing gigs in the Leeds area in the early 2000s. They all went to high school in Shropshire, a county in southwestern England near the Welsh border. Craig Wellington was going to school in Shrewsbury and Stuart Jones, Daley Smith, and Matthew Gwilt went to school in Telford. Eventually, Gwilt was accepted to go to the University of Leeds, and the boys collectively moved there after graduation. They formed the Sunshine Underground soon after they got to Leeds, naming their band after a Chemical Brothers track. It was during this time that the band established important contacts in the music industry, eventually hooking up with ¡Forward, Russia!'s "scene fixer," who promoted some of the Sunshine Underground's first shows. They captured the attention of audiences all over Britain when in 2005 the band won a popular BBC-1 battle of the bands competition called Fresh Meat. The band's debut single, "Put You in Your Place," was released on the City Rockers label in July of that year. They released another single in 2006, "Commercial Breakdown," and released their first full-length album, Raise the Alarm, on the same label a few months later. In August of that year, the band's single "Put You in Your Place" made it to number 39 in the Top 40.