Question: Which rock band did one of the songwriting partners of "Hug My Soul" play guitar for? (Info A: Saint Etienne, Info B: Republica)

Context articles: Republica
Field Trip (album)
Saint Etienne discography
Nothing Can Stop Us (song)
Cool Kids of Death
Casino Classics
Hug My Soul
Gary Finneran
Places to Visit
Reserection

Republica are an English alternative rock band, formed in 1994.
 The height of their popularity spanned from 1996 to 1999.
 The current line-up consists of Saffron (vocals), Tim Dorney (keyboards), Johnny Male (guitar), Conor Lawrence (drums).
Field Trip is an album by Canadian rock band The Grapes of Wrath, released in 2000.
 The album marked the reunion of Kevin Kane and Tom Hooper as songwriting partners and bandmates for the first time since 1991's "These Days", although they were the only two original band members to appear on the album.
 Session musicians filled in the remaining slots left by departing members Chris Hooper and Vincent Jones, including Pete Bourne on drums and Dave Genn on keyboards.
English alternative dance band Saint Etienne have released nine studio albums, two soundtrack albums, nine compilation albums, two remix albums, seven mix albums, two video albums, one box set, four extended plays, 38 singles (including one as a featured artist), and five promotional singles.
"Nothing Can Stop Us" is the third single by Saint Etienne.
 Released by Heavenly Records in 1991, it is the first release to feature Sarah Cracknell, who would continue to front the band from this release on.
 "Nothing Can Stop Us" reached the number one spot on the American dance charts for one week.
 The song is based on a looped sample from Dusty Springfield's recording of "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face".
The Cool Kids of Death are a Polish alternative rock band formed in Łódź in 2001.
 Their name comes from a Saint Etienne song.
Casino Classics is a multi-CD remix compilation album by Saint Etienne.
 The first CD collects many of the remixes featured as B-sides on the band's singles from 1990 to 1995.
 The second contains rarer remixes (such as Underworld's remix of "Cool Kids of Death") and newly commissioned remixes.
 Disc one was originally a bonus CD released with limited copies of "Too Young to Die - The Singles".
 Disc two features four previously unavailable songs.
 Early copies came in a card slipcase with a round sticker.
 An expanded, four-disc version of the compilation was released in 2012 with a revised running order.
 The band also released a fifth disc as a download-only extra.
"Hug My Soul" is a single by British band Saint Etienne.
 It was the third single from the album "Tiger Bay", and was released  1994 (1994-) by Heavenly Records.
 It was written by vocalist Sarah Cracknell along with songwriting partners Guy Batson and Johnny Male (Male and Batson would help co-write a number of tracks on Cracknell's solo debut "Lipslide").
Gary Finneran (April 17, 1964 – May 10, 2009), also known as 'Gary X', was an American singer songwriter best known as the frontman for the band Ex-Idols.
 He was considered to be one of the best songwriters to have never been recognized and was honored as such at his memorial.
 Finneran gained critical acclaim and radio success with his band the Ex-Idols, known for their single 'Go Away,' the 1993 Pill Popper EP and 1994 Social Kill full-length CD Relativity Records.
 In 1995 they toured with English punk band the UK Subs.
 Gary went on to sing and play guitar in the Hollywood three-piece band Tuscaurora from 1998 until his death in 2009.
 He wanted to form a band that could play a wider variety of material than the hard-hitting Ex-Idols afforded.
{} Tuscaurora's 2000 album Malnutrition Headache showed the range of pop/rock/punk influences that melded in Finneran's songwriting style, and in his singing which varied from raw volatile emotion to beautifully original melodic lines.
 Music by Tuscaurora was featured in several movies produced by Hart D. Fisher.
 His other music projects included: She Died, Tragedy Club, and Gary X and the Fortune Hunters.
 Most recently, he was attending the California Institute Of The Arts, and expanding his use of keyboards in his songwriting and stage performance.
Places to Visit is an Extended Play released by British group Saint Etienne in May 1999.
 It showed the band moving toward the experimental electronic sound that they perfected on their next official full-length, 2000's "Sound of Water".
Reserection is an extended play (EP) by English alternative dance band Saint Etienne and French singer Étienne Daho, under the collective name St. Etienne Daho.
 It was released on 29 September 1995 by Virgin Records.
 The title is an amalgamation of the words "résurrection" and "érection".