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Feeder| British rock group. Formed in London in 1995, the band incorporates pop, rock, heavy metal, punk, and grunge influences, and is best known for its punk-inspired anthem ‘Buck Rogers’ (2001). Their debut album, Polythene (1997), was followed by Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999), featuring the hit ‘Day In, Day Out’, Echo Park, Comfort in Sound (2002), and Pushing the Senses (2005). |
| The band is often compared to the US alternative band Smashing Pumpkins. Original members included Grant Nicholas (1967– ) on vocals and guitar, Jon Lee (1968–2002) on drums, and Taka Hirose (1967– ) on bass guitar. Mark Richardson became the drummer after Lee committed suicide in 2002. The group's sound became more subdued and melancholy after Lee's death. |
| Nicholas and Lee played together in a Newport grunge band, Temper Temper, in the early 1990s. After changing their name to Reel, they moved to London and recruited Japanese-born Hirose. They signed with indie label Echo in 1995, changed their name to Feeder, and released their debut EP, Two Colours, followed by the six-track album Swim. Incessant touring helped develop a wide, loyal, and youthful fan base. Their single ‘High’ featured in the teen movie Can't Hardly Wait (1998). |
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| He soon proved a heavy clog upon the little party, being doltish and taciturn, lazy in the extreme, and a huge feeder. "Faith, then," said the gentleman, "this new author does not handle you with the decency that displays itself in your person; he makes you out a heavy feeder and a fool, and not in the least droll, and a very different being from the Sancho described in the First Part of your master's history. Farmer Groby--or, as they called him, "he"--had arrived ere this, and by his orders Tess was placed on the platform of the machine, close to the man who fed it, her business being to untie every sheaf of corn handed on to her by Izz Huett, who stood next, but on the rick; so that the feeder could seize it and spread it over the revolving drum, which whisked out every grain in one moment. |