Hip Parade

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Hip Parade
Polydor, Blameless Records BMG, Chrysalis
MembersKris McDines
Sal Shah
Rob Shah
Dave Flavel
Websitehipparade.co.uk

Hip Parade are a Scottish

Orange Unsigned Act. The band have appeared twice at Scotland's premier festival T in the Park and also appeared on the main stage of RockNess
Festival in 2010.

TV success

The band were featured on the

Orange Unsigned Act in 2009.[1] The band beat 7000 other acts to finish in second place behind fellow Scotsman Tommy Reilly.[2] Hip Parade toured several times in 2009 which included several sell out shows at the Classic Grand and two nights at Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut.[3] Hip Parade made their debut festival appearances that year playing on the T-Break Stage at T in The Park and headlined the Freedom Stage at The 2009 Wizard Festival in Aberdeen.[4]

Deal

In December 2009 it was announced that Hip Parade had signed to BMG Rights Management. Tony Moss, MD of BMG Rights UK said "We love the band and see this as a great way to help them get some records out and grow the fanbase. Hopefully, this will be a big step on the way to long term success" [5] Lead-singer Rob Shah said "We’re all really excited about the deal; it means that fans will soon be able to buy our music. We’ve been in talks with different people this year but we’re really excited about what BMG have to offer and really looking forward to 2010" [5][6]

Hip Parade supporting Stereophonics at Wembley Arena, 11 March 2010

The band began recording their first EP January 2010 with

NIA in Birmingham. Richard Jones of the Stereophonics
said "Adam let us hear the demos they’d been working on, and we all really liked them. So we thought why not give an up and coming band the chance to play some big shows?" [7]

I'll Be Your Audience

On 2 April 2012, Hip Parade released their debut album. Taking with them a production team consisting of Jim Lowe (

The Noisettes), Adam Zindani (Stereophonics) and John Davis (Florence and the Machine, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs), Hip Parade recorded at the Monnow Valley Studio in Wales and at Vale Studios in Worcestershire in 2011. The first single to be taken from the album "Talk to Me" was released on 27 February. The album includes the tracks "Girl on the Radio", "Katie Goes Dancing", "Catastrophe", "Dynamite" and "Teenage Romance". The album consists of 12 tracks in total and is 34 minutes in length.[8][9][10]

Band members

Discography

Singles:

  • "Girl on the Radio" (January 2009) Polydor Records
  • "Katie Goes Dancing" (March 2010) Blameless Records
  • "Catastrophe" (May 2010) Blameless Records
  • "Talk To Me" (February 2012) Blameless Records

Albums:

  • I'll Be Your Audience (April 2012) Blameless Records

References

  1. ^ "Hip Parade talk Orange Unsigned". Femalefirst.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Glasgow - Latest news updates, pictures, video, reaction - Daily Record". Dailyrecord.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". www.kingtuts.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ a b "Scottish Music Centre - News". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  6. ^ "Under the radar - News - Scotsman.com". thescotsman.scotsman.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  7. ^ a b "MUSIC: Glasgow is such a trip - Evening Times | Times Out | Music & Clubs". www.eveningtimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  8. ^ "I'll Be Your Audience by Hip Parade". Apple Music. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Album title, track listing and artwork revealed! :-)". Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  10. ^ Gaga, Simon (30 March 2012). "CD Review - Hip Parade, I'll Be Your Audience". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2020.

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