The Electric Soft Parade

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Brighton, United Kingdom

[Note: Any artist known as “ESP” redirects to the Electric Soft Parade. There are at least three other artists that use the moniker “ESP.”]

The Electric Soft Parade are a Brighton based indie rock band comprising siblings Alex White (guitar/vocals) and Tom White (guitar/main vocals), who are the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians who they record and perform live with; Matthew Twaites from RestLessList on bass and Mathew Priest from Dodgy on drums.

Alex and Tom formed Fixed Ascent, which became The Feltro Media (with bassist Alistair Gavan, now of diomedes), before renaming themselves The Soft Parade and signing to indie label Db in early 2001 (without Gavan). They added the ‘Electric’ part of their name shortly after their early singles began getting some attention in the rock press - they were threatened with legal action by a Doors tribute band if they did not change it. This did not halt their rise to (relative) fame at all, however, and their debut album, Holes In The Wall, was issued in February 2002. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize later that year, although they did not win the award.

Their second album, The American Adventure appeared in October 2003, now on BMG Records.

Alex and Tom have since started a side project in the form of Brakes with British Sea Power’s ex keyboardist Eamon Hamilton and Marc Beatty of The Tenderfoot. The White brothers have also been assisting up-and-coming Brighton acts such as The Pipettes and Actress Hands.

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indie, indie rock, rock, britpop, british
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swimparallel wrote:
24 days ago

I can't stop listening to If That's the Case, Then I Don't Know - totally worth the download, buying the album ASAP. Best Last.fm recommendation I've had yet!

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virrazh wrote:
October 2008

"I'm just listening to ESP which is most defnitely NOT someone called The Electric Soft Paradise. Why in the world this program erroneously credits everything tagged as ESP to just one of the alternatives carrying that abbreviation? There must be several acts whose name is ESP. Thank you" - 2!

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jvaahtera wrote:
October 2008

I'm just listening to ESP which is most defnitely NOT someone called The Electric Soft Paradise. Why in the world this program erroneously credits everything tagged as ESP to just one of the alternatives carrying that abbreviation? There must be several acts whose name is ESP. Thank you.

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theelecmainline wrote:
October 2008

As featured on Psychedelica Three from www.northernstarrecords.co.uk PSYCHEDELICA THREE featuring The Lea Shores, The High Dials, The Quarter After, Youngteam, Belles Will Ring, Maison Blanche, The Black Angels, The Dolly Rocker Movement, The Electric Soft Parade, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, House Of Fire, Sunsplit, Sunray, Louis Gordon, The Cush, The Deaths, God Is An Astronaut, Sennen, Mono In VCF, The Nova Saints, The December Sound, The Butterfly Explosion, Soundpool, Perfect Blue, The Telescopes, The Insect Guide, Mugstar, The Zen Circus & Brian Ritchie, Say, Hopewell, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, Aspen Woods, Hush The Many (Heed The Few).

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MarielleOwl wrote:
October 2008

hello there :) just wanna share this beautiful song to you all....I'm sure you'll find it great, it's simply beautiful! enjoy..... Pok

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beckybartkowski wrote:
September 2008

Have you Electric Soft Parade fans checked out People in Planes?

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razzu wrote:
September 2008

the fucks the kulick/ corabi band?!

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TomH86 wrote:
September 2008

They should have more plays scrobbled...

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brownieboy wrote:
September 2008

I remember this group had a release under 'The Soft Parade'. Then the name must of changed obviously in some course. Some Lucky chart hits from them during the good early 00s years of guitar music.

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russbutch77 wrote:
August 2008

i love this band. got holes in the wall the day it came out and stil play it. new stuff is sonding good

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panicattract wrote:
July 2008

hello esp fans, we have esp side project restlesslist playing wednesday 16th july at the flea pit on columbia road, london e2. its a fiver in and should be a cracker. for more go to www.myspace.com/recentfuturesounds. starts at 8pm!!!

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removable wrote:
July 2008

my new favourite band, so awesome.

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xybo wrote:
July 2008

ESP aka Woody McBride. Nice acid techno. Someone should fix this shit up.

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wapanese_wiggas wrote:
July 2008

HAHA...HAHA what is the electric space phenomenon? a heavy metal sludge band it would be so funny if they are!

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Amour_Noir wrote:
July 2008

they look like pervy frat boys :D

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Limeni_Nos wrote:
April 2008

Stop this gay tyranny!

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zan121 wrote:
April 2008

boo i want Electric Space Phenomenon scrobbled not elecric soft parade! this is madness! according to my page the electric soft parade made the album SENSORY OVERLOAD.. I THINK NOT!

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Brainfever wrote:
March 2008

Hmm. ESP - 1987 - The Future Is Now, a hard rock band :)

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al_shashkin wrote:
March 2008

hey, moderators! do anything - my tag correctly written 'ESP' (Electric Space Phenomenon), but there's ... ((( 'ESP' is a REAL band-name, not abreviature of 'The Electric Soft Parade'!!!

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harmpy wrote:
February 2008

Why do you try so hard to hate me?! Great band.

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