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Thousand Yard Stare is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of James, The Smiths and Blur. Those roots explain a lot about how Thousand Yard Stare arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Power Of Dreams, The Belltower, Smashing Orange, Curve and Ride, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Euphoria, Blur, Elastica, Click and Billy Bragg, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 24 connections around Thousand Yard Stare, reaching back through James and forward to Euphoria. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Thousand Yard Stare are an English band from Slough, Berkshire, England, active during the early 1990s, prior to the Britpop explosion. Supporting popular bands on the indie circuit such as James and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, the band also released several EPs. Reformed in 2015, the band played a sold-out show at London's Borderline on 6 June, at the Nottingham Rock City Wake-Up Indie Alldayer on 17 October 2015, and at the Shiiine On Weekender festival at Butlins Minehead on 6 November 2015. More dates were scheduled for 2016 and they released full-length record in 2020 and 2022.
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Thousand Yard Stare connections
Thousand Yard Stare grew out of James, The Smiths and Blur, shares an orbit with Power Of Dreams, The Belltower, Smashing Orange and Curve, went on to shape Euphoria, Blur, Elastica and Click. 24 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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