The Takeover UK: Biography

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Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Usually, bands take on the prefix "UK" when there's an actual need for it differentiating the Mission UK from the Philly soul band of the same name, for instance but for Pittsburgh born the Takeover UK, it seems as if it were done out of a desire for "cool" or "cred." Eventually pulling up stakes and taking the melange of '60s tinged sounds coupled with late'70s punk rock to New York, the Takeover UK soon released a debut EP, It's All Happening on Rykodisc. Released in the summer of 2008, the EP was merely a warmup for the band's first fulllength effort, Running with the Wasters, due in the fall of that same year.

- Chris True, All Music Guide