Echobelly

Echobelly are a British rock band, debuting in 1994 with their album Everyone's Got One. They were often compared to Blondie and The Smiths; Morrissey becoming a fan of the group.
The most prominent part of Echobelly's success formula was vocalist Sonya Madan, who was also the group's lyricist. Born in Delhi, India, before moving to England at the age of two, Madan had an atypical background for a pop star. Her upbringing made rock music an unusual choice for her as a youngster and she did not attend her first rock concert until she was in college. In 1990 she met Glenn Johansson, a guitarist from Sweden. In a radio interview with Janice Long, on BBC Radio Wales, in December 2017, she admitted that her parents had initially found it hard to accept her choice of career.
==Links to Peel==
*Apart from their only session and one LP track, John doesn't seem to have played much of their material on the show, though in 1994 he did say that he ended up liking bands such as Echobelly and Oasis at Glastonbury much more than he thought he would and thinks he may have been too initially dismissive....
*Their LP "Everyone's Got One" was found in John's record collection.
==Festive Fifty Entries==
*None
==Sessions==
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One session, recorded 3rd February 1994, first broadcast 01 April 1995, repeated 28 October 1995. All tracks available on 2xCD reissue of On (2014, 3 Loop Music – 3RANGE-25).
*Four Letter Word / Tarantino / Pantyhose and Roses / Way Too
== Live ==
A series of shows presented live from Sound City in Oxford, co-hosted with Steve Lamacq, broadcast 29 October 1997.
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==Other Shows Played==
*12 August 1994: Father, Ruler, King, Computer (album - Everybody's Got One) Rhythm King
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: E
*Glastonbury: Radio
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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