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Viola Beach is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of The Coral, The Beatles, The Kooks, Coasts and Blossoms. Those roots explain a lot about how Viola Beach arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Courteeners, Sundara Karma, Sea Girls, The Hunna and Blossoms, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Royston Club, Blossoms, Coldplay, Maxïmo Park and Billy Bragg, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Viola Beach, reaching back through The Coral and forward to The Royston Club. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Viola Beach were an English indie rock group formed in Warrington in 2013. The band's final line-up consisted of Kris Leonard, River Reeves (guitar), Tomas Lowe (bass), and Jack Dakin (drums). All four, along with their manager Craig Tarry, were killed during their first overseas tour when their car fell from a bridge in the Swedish city of Södertälje on 13 February 2016. As of 2026, founding members Frankie Coulson (guitar) and Jonny Gibson (bass) are the last surviving members of the band.
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Viola Beach connections
Viola Beach grew out of The Coral, The Beatles, The Kooks and Coasts, shares an orbit with The Courteeners, Sundara Karma, Sea Girls and The Hunna, went on to shape The Royston Club, Blossoms, Coldplay and Maxïmo Park. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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