Guillemots (sometimes written gUiLLeMoTs) are a Brit Award nominated indie rock band formed in November 2004 by Fyfe Dangerfield. The band consists of 4 members: Fyfe Dangerfield, MC Lord Magrão, Aristazabal Hawkes, Greig Stewart. The band has experienced chart success since they formed, with their single "Get Over It" reaching number 20 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2008. Their second album, Red, reached number 9 in the UK Albums Chart in the same month.
Fyfe Dangerfield began writing songs in his native Birmingham & then in Bromsgrove. His early band, Senseless Prayer, recorded a session for John Peel's Radio 1 show in 1999. Dangerfield then began song writing under the name "Fyfe Dangerfield and the Accident", and in 2004 he featured alongside Misty's Big Adventure, Mike in Mono, Dreams of Tall Buildings, and X Is Greater Than Y on a promotional CD that was offered free with The Birmingham Post, called Broader Than Broad Street. He then joined old school friend, Paul "Booby" Tooby, on his "Ragamuffin Blues but Holes in my Shoes" tour.
Dangerfield had moved to Bromsgrove, attending Bromsgrove School in 1988; he moved to London in 2002, where he recruited the current line up (although Alex Ward was also at Bromsgrove School). He also became a maverick music teacher for Cranbrook College.
Members
* Fyfe Dangerfield (also known as Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins) - singer, keyboard & guitar
* MC Lord Magrão - guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, accordion, xylophone, theremin, synth bass, typewriter, musical saw, electric drill
* Aristazabal Hawkes - double bass and percussion
* Greig Stewart (also known as Rican Caol) - drums and percussion
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