Bis
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Founded: 1995
Headquarters: Glasgow, Scotland
Website Link(s): BisNation
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bis was the first unsigned band to appear on the UK's Top of the Pops, performing "Kandy Pop". They enjoyed some success, though there was a huge critical backlash for the first couple of records. In the US, they're most known for performing the closing theme to The Powerpuff Girls, and that parlayed into success for their second album, Social Dancing, which got a promotional push from the show. In 2003, on Valentine's Day, bis announced that they were breaking up. Manda went into The Kitchen, a more disco-punk based band with her (now ex-)husband, John and Steven formed Dirty Hospital, a DJ outfit. In 2004, though, they had announced that The Kitchen and Manda's marriage had dissolved, and that bis had gotten back together under a new name to record some songs for a BBC program. Later, it was announced that the new band was Data Panik. To date, Data Panik has released only one 7", "Cubis (I Love You)" b/w "Sense Not Sense". It is a return to the sound of bis, mostly of the Music For A Stranger World era.
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- The New Transistor Heroes
- Social Dancing
- Play Some Real Songs: the Live Album
- Return To Central
- Intendo
- I Heart bis
- Plastique Nouveau
- Icky-Poo Air Raid
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- Transmissions on the Teen-C Tip!
- Disco Nation
- The Secret Vampire Soundtrack
- bis vs. the D.I.Y. Corps
- Atom-Powered Action!
- This Is Teen-C Power!
- Techno Disco Lovers
- Music For A Stranger World
- fukd i.d.
- Fact 2002
- Plastique 33
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- Kandy Pop/Sweet Shop Avengers
- Sweet Shop Avengerz
- Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs
- Tell It To The Kids
- Kid Cut
- Eurodisco
- Action & Drama
- Detour
- What You're Afraid Of
- Protection
- The End Starts Today
- Split with Heavenly
- The Hi-Fi Mixes
- Split with Lugworm
- Kkeerroolleeeenn
- Split with The Apples in stereo
- Today Of All Days
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- I'm a Wound and a Sword, A Victim and an Executioner
- The Boys And Girls Are Lifting Up Their Plates
- Past The Barber and Gymnasium
- De Revrum's Crash Course In De Muzikum Educatchum
- Hobotic Mixed CDs Volumes 1-5
- Dub Club Matt Auxilliary: KITTY!!!
- Dub Club V: The Final Frontier - Aila
- Plastic Music Exchange 2006 - Rev. DOG.
- Mom... We Cut Off Barfey's Head For Soccer Practice But It Rolls Real Funny And Stuff... Can PJ Come Outside?
- Pray For My TV Show
- And A Bumper Sticker That Says "No Other Possibility"
- Dub Club: I'm Singing For You All Covered In Sequins - Matt
