The Miserable Rich is a chamber-pop band formed in 2007 and based in Brighton, United Kingdom. It includes several members of the Brighton-based Willkommen Collective, which also numbers Shoreline, Sons of Noel and Adrian and The Leisure Society in its ranks. The band is known for its distinctive, chamber orchestra sound, created using instruments such as the cello, violin and double bass which are unusual for a modern pop band.

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  • The Miserable Rich is a chamber-pop band formed in 2007 and based in Brighton, United Kingdom. It includes several members of the Brighton-based Willkommen Collective, which also numbers Shoreline, Sons of Noel and Adrian and The Leisure Society in its ranks. The band is known for its distinctive, chamber orchestra sound, created using instruments such as the cello, violin and double bass which are unusual for a modern pop band. The band's name comes from an experience Will and James had at the wedding of two ultra-rich aristocrats in Rome. In 2006, Will Calderbank joined James de Malplaquet to form the band Grape Authority, a live band playing the songs James de Malplaquet had written under the pseudonym James Grape. Becoming dissatisfied with the limitations of the laptop-electronica approach they had been using, they eventually decided to try something altogether different. At the time, both Will and James were playing in Brighton folk band Shoreline and the more traditional instrumentation used in this band was taken on board, with inspiration derived from the ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone's "Say You Don't Mind" and The Balanescu Quartet's Kraftwerk covers. Together with Mike Siddell (formerly Hope of the States, and who has more recently recorded and toured with Lightspeed Champion and Kate Walsh) on violin, Jim Briffett on guitar and Rhys Lovell on double bass they created The Miserable Rich. They recorded their debut album Twelve Ways To Count at James de Malplaquet's house in Hove during the summer of 2007. The debut single from the album received positive reviews, including Leftfield Single of the Month in DJ Magazine and widespread airplay, with the band championed in particular by BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley, for whom they have recorded two live sessions. The album itself has received widespread critical acclaim, both in Germany and the UK. They were signed to London-based booking agency Coda Agency in September 2008, and have since toured in Europe, both as headliners, and as support for Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.
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  • The Miserable Rich is a chamber-pop band formed in 2007 and based in Brighton, United Kingdom. It includes several members of the Brighton-based Willkommen Collective, which also numbers Shoreline, Sons of Noel and Adrian and The Leisure Society in its ranks. The band is known for its distinctive, chamber orchestra sound, created using instruments such as the cello, violin and double bass which are unusual for a modern pop band.
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