Pins

1. PINS is a British rock band formed in Manchester in 2011. The group consists of singer/guitarist Faith Holgate, guitarist Lois McDonald, bassist Anna Donigan, and drummer Sophie Galpin. Singer Faith Holgate cites bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Hole as influences.
PINS formed in 2011 when Faith Holgate, while looking for bandmates, decided that she wanted to form an all-girl band rather than be the token girl in a mostly male band. They released their first album, Girls Like Us, in September 2013. In 2015, they opened for Sleater-Kinney on the UK leg of their tour.

PINS second album ‘Wild Nights’ was released on Bella Union on 9 June 2015

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Location: Ukraine / Kremenchug / Kyiv
Founded in November 14, 1999
Style: New Wave / Alternative / Metal

Band members:
Vitaliy Nosenko — vocals
Taras Korostashov — guitar
Sergiy Pinchuk — guitar
Oleksiy Nosenko — bass
Vadym Gorobec — drums
Dennis Abramenko - sound engineer

Группа основана в 1999 году в г. Кременчуг. PINS – что-то острое и открытое. В настоящий момент PINS – это смесь разных по возрасту людей, но близких по жизненным взглядам и философии, смесь разных стилей и предпочтений в музыке – от этно, психоделичной музыки до ню-металла и просто тяжелой альтернативной музыки. Многие люди за время существования группы воплощали свои творческие идеи в PINS. Много стилей представляли публике музыканты. И все таки группа кажется нашла свой собственный, который продолжает совершенствоваться с каждой новой песней.
Песни от PINS – это поиск самого себя, поиск пути к духовному самоусовершенствованию и развитию, раскрытию темы отношений человека, с внешним и внутренним миром, отношений между темной и светлой стороной человека, между духовным и материальным…

The band was founded in 1999. Since then the guys are trying to use different genres of music to find their own sound. PINS consists of people with different ages, but hte same way of life and philosophy. They work as one, as a team. Every member do his best to make PINS better. Their evolution as a music band started from the day they began to work together. During the past few years they tried different music styles. Now PINS play a combination of ethnic, psycholdelic music with nu-metal and alternative rock. Every song is about the feelings and the philosophy of the band members. It is about people who want to find path to spiritual self-perfection and development, opening of theme of relations of man, with the outer and internal world, relations between the dark and light side of man, between spiritual and material.

Discography:
“Mandrivnyk” (InshaMuzyka, 2008)

The band took part in these festivals:
“Rock Tochka2001”(Doneck, Ukraine)
“Perlyni Sezonu2002” Music Contest final(Zaporizha, Ukraine)
“Chervona Ruta2003” music contest, 1st place(Kiev, Ukraine)
“Mazepa Fest2004/2005”(Poltava, Ukraine)
“Taras Bulba Music Fest”2004&2005(Dubno, Ukraine)
“EuroCamp 2005”(Kiev, Truchanov island, Ukraine)
“Rock Explosion 2005” (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
“Vysadka 2006” (Ternopil, Ukraine)
“Rock Ryck 2006” (Lviv, Ukraine)
“ProRock 2006” (Krolevec, Ukraine)
“InshaMuzykaFest 2007” (Kiev, Ukraine)
“Taras Bulba Music Fest 2207” 1st place in band contest (Dubno, Ukraine)
“Volodymyr 2007” (Volodymyr-Volynskiy, Ukraine)
“InshaMuzykaFest 2008” (Kiev, Ukraine)
“UpFest 2008” (Lutsk, Ukraine)
“Rock Sych 2008”(Kiev, Ukraine)
“The Global Battle Of The Bands'08 Ukraine – National Final Round” 3rd place (Kiev, Ukraine)
"Rock Sych 2010" (Kiev, Ukraine)
"Rujnaciya 2012" (Lviv, Ukraine)
"InshaMuzyka 2011" (Kiev, Ukraine)

Songs released in these compilations:
VA - “Mazepa Fest2005”
VA - “Mazepa Fest2006”
VA - “Taras Bulba Music Fest”2005
VA – “RE:Evolution2008”