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The story of 51/50s (pronounced “fifty-one-fifties”) has a somewhat bittersweet beginning, when the band’s founder and lead singer Rikki Lee started writing songs about his life experiences while being homeless and living on the streets. Rikki composed many of the band’s first songs during those times and most notably the songs “Lies” and “Hypnotised”, which reflect his experiences rather vividly.
An early form of 51/50s saw daylight in December 31st, 2004 in London, but under a different name at that time. It took two more years for the band to get their second line-up together with Billy and Jason joining the band on September 2006. A month or two followed with the band rehearsing from Monday to Friday seven hours a day, after which they started an intensive gig tour performing all over the UK.
On September 2007 the band got an incredible opportunity of going through direct financing via Slicethepie, which enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album, and became one of the first bands to get financed through the new media service. The band ended up raising over £20,000 from fans and went through an extremely busy schedule of gigging, writing and rehearsing. At this point Ollie, who was a close friend of Billy and Jason, joined the band and soon after the band changed their management along with their name, and so the current form of 51/50s came into being.
An early form of 51/50s saw daylight in December 31st, 2004 in London, but under a different name at that time. It took two more years for the band to get their second line-up together with Billy and Jason joining the band on September 2006. A month or two followed with the band rehearsing from Monday to Friday seven hours a day, after which they started an intensive gig tour performing all over the UK.
On September 2007 the band got an incredible opportunity of going through direct financing via Slicethepie, which enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album, and became one of the first bands to get financed through the new media service. The band ended up raising over £20,000 from fans and went through an extremely busy schedule of gigging, writing and rehearsing. At this point Ollie, who was a close friend of Billy and Jason, joined the band and soon after the band changed their management along with their name, and so the current form of 51/50s came into being.
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Jigsaw_John schrieb:
I love this band!! ^^
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StalkerGirl schrieb:
they're so fucking great! ♥
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OtothaC schrieb:
Saw u guys at cambridge yesterday, thought u were amazing! best band of the weekend!!!
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Ajoshosho schrieb:
Congrtaz guys, your music is awesome!
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secret64_ schrieb:
thanks for the post :) you guys are incredible! x
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Zernsky_Linley schrieb:
Heard that the new album is finished. Congrats guys!! Put up some new songs if you can ;)
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bloemeke_87 schrieb:
Your new website is way cool, loving the album cover too! hope that the new songs are also rockin!
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Mattolinko schrieb:
@ Nicoramon Okay, thanks (: I can't wait either.
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protonjon schrieb:
cheers for the gig last night. Very catchy tunes, good luck in the future.
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nicoramon schrieb:
@ Mattolinko They have only released one single so far, Lies, which you can get form iTunes at least... Their debut album is coming out in May, can't wait :P
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Mattolinko schrieb:
Is there any way to buy mp3's of your songs? You're amazing!
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yexords schrieb:
I almost died, one week without internet, one week without listen your songs oO
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D33PPURPLE schrieb:
Okay! So, listening to these guys a bit more, I say Bring It On is, without a doubt, their best.
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D33PPURPLE schrieb:
Eh, show potential. Need more creativity, if you ask me, but a thoroughly decent listen.
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Biotechnology schrieb:
Cool songs!
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Gazzamm schrieb:
Best of luck guys. You're awesome.
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yexords schrieb:
This guys deserve a lot more
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bloemeke_87 schrieb:
love you guys!!!
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Knnkls schrieb:
Great =P
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franni666 schrieb:
LOL...it sounds sweet
News
51/50s T-shirt now 15% off at FredShop
25. Sep. 2009 | von blog.myspace.com/5150smusic
Hey all, hope you're doing awesome. We've had some cool
feedback about the 51/50s fan T-shirt, but we also know that some
of you might find the price a bit too much. So to overcome this
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“Just One Man” exclusive acoustic track for true fans
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14. Aug. 2009 | von blog.myspace.com/5150smusic -
51/50s + Fred Sandiego = A really cool t-shirt
4. Aug. 2009 | von pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=sqg9tYWT3RGSL_FvrbQIDg
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Letzte Aktivitäten
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- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘"Just One Man" exclusive acoustic track for true fans’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘Official T-shirts now available!!’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘51/50s T-shirt now 15% off at FredShop’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘Dangerous State Of Mind out now!!’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘Full Album Preview (almost)’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘Dangerous State Of Mind to be released on June 29th!’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘Heartbleeder now on preview!!’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘51/50s now on playlist.com’. November 2011
- 51/50s hat einen Newsbeitrag bereitgestellt, ‘"Lies" digital single now available!’. November 2011
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