The Sea

The Sea

The Sea is a group from London and has been active since 2008. It is a two-piece indie band consisting of Peter and Alex Chisholm. The act is also associated with indie, garage rock, indie pop and shoegaze.

Background

The Sea is one of several acts using the name. The London group is the version identified as a two-piece featuring the Chisholm brothers. Another entry under the same name refers to a four-piece indie pop band from Hamburg, while an earlier use of the name refers to a separate offshoot of The Boats. A different historical group called The Sea also comes from the late 1980s South East London scene.

Recordings and activity

The London duo has two singles out and plans a third single. The available information does not name those singles, but it identifies the act as continuing in the present and places it in the London indie scene.

Other named acts using the same name

The Sea name also appears on a 2007 album titled The boats are in the bay by an offshoot of The Boats. Another The Sea line-up records the single “Talk/The Past” in December 2006 with Gregor Hennig at Rekorder Studio and prepares a debut album by the end of 2007. A separate late-1980s The Sea builds around a South East London community linked to Dole House in Peckham and the Dew Drop Inn in New Cross, and its members take part in organising the Deptford Urban Free Festivals between 1990 and 1996 under the banner “You Can't Kill The Spirit!” That version also runs the Carp Records label, which releases a compilation CD featuring Senser, Fun-Da-Mental, Back to the Planet and Sidi Buo Said.

Associated historical line-up

The late-1980s group’s best-known line-up changes over time, but the version most people know includes brothers Sam Raine and Ben Raine, James Corner on drums, Bevin Burke on bass, Matt, also known as Dr Rat McShit, on squeezebox and keyboardist Eugene McCarthy, also known as Huge-Jeans.