The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx.
Lloyd's Coffee House was a coffee shop in London opened by Edward Lloyd (c. 1648–15 February 1713) originally on Tower Street, in 1686.
 The establishment was a popular place for sailors, merchants and shipowners, and Lloyd catered to them with reliable shipping news.
 The shipping industry community frequented the place to discuss maritime insurance, shipbroking and foreign trade.
 The dealing that took place led to the establishment of the insurance market Lloyd's of London, Lloyd's Register and several related shipping and insurance businesses.
Nigel Eaton is an English hurdy-gurdy player.
 He originally played the piano and cello but switched to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began making them.
 He was in the bands Blowzabella, Whirling Pope Joan with Julie Murphy and The Duellists with Cliff Stapleton and Chris Walshaw.
 He has released two solo albums - "The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy" (1987) and "Pandemonium" (2002) and has been featured on other recordings by artists including Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with whom he toured between end of 1994 and early 1996, also Scott Walker, Shelleyan Orphan, Heidi Berry,  Gary Kemp, Carl Davies, with whom he performed Abel Gances' Napoleon, Blue Aeroplanes, Martin Simpson, Moya Brennan, Afro Celt Sound System's "Release" (a current edexcel Music GCSE curriculum piece) and many works by Loreena McKennitt.
 Eaton's film work as a session musician has included "Robin Hood", "The Shipping News", "Kingdom of Heaven", "Aliens", "Mansfield Park", "Tulip Fever" and as an extra in the films "On Chesil Beach" and "Darkest Hour".
The New York Courier and Enquirer, properly called the "Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer", was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in New York City from June 1829 until June 1861, when it was merged into the "New York World".
 Throughout its life it was edited by newspaper publisher James Watson Webb.
 It was closely connected with the rise and fall of the United States Whig Party, and was noted for its careful coverage of New York Harbor shipping news and its close attention to speeches and events in the United States Congress.
Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734.
 It was published daily until 2013 (when issue 60,850 was published), and in constantly updated digital format only since then.
Gene were an English alternative rock quartet that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s.
 Formed in 1993, they were popularly labelled as a Britpop band and often drew comparisons to The Smiths because of their Morrissey-esque lead singer, Martin Rossiter.
 Gene's music was influenced by The Jam, The Smiths, The Style Council and The Clash.
Jeff Mueller is an American vocalist and guitarist best known as a member of the math rock bands Rodan, Shipping News and June of 44.
 His bands have been critically recognized for being key forerunners in the development of post-rock, math rock and post-hardcore.
 His only solo, titled "Fold and Perish", was released in 1999 by Monitor Records.
 He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Shipping News is an American post-rock/post-hardcore band.
 The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both in Rodan, collaborated to create music for the Chicago-based syndicated National Public Radio program "This American Life".
 Kyle Crabtree was later recruited as drummer which completed the original lineup.
 In 2004, Todd Cook, former member of Parlour, The For Carnation, and the reunited Slint, was recruited as bass player.
TradeWinds is the world's biggest shipping news service, publishing both online news and a printed weekly newspaper, that covers shipping as a global industry.
 TradeWinds is owned by NHST Media Group and is headquartered in Oslo.
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993.
 It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards.
 It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 2001.

Question: Are Shipping News and Gene both rock bands?
Answer: yes