Tones on Tail

British post-punk band
Organization musical_group Q2654513
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Tones on Tail

Summary

Tones on Tail is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,955 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tones on Tail's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Tones on Tail's genre is post-punk[4].
  • Tones on Tail's genre is gothic rock[5].
  • Tones on Tail's record label is recorded as Beggars Banquet Records[6].
  • Tones on Tail's record label is recorded as 4AD[7].
  • Tones on Tail's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • Tones on Tail comprises Daniel Ash[9].
  • 1982 marks the founding of Tones on Tail[10].
  • Tones on Tail's location of formation is recorded as Northampton[11].
  • Tones on Tail's official website is recorded as http://www.tonesontail.com/[12].
  • Tones on Tail's start of work period is recorded as 1982[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[14]

  • Country: GB[15]

  • Began / founded: 1982[16]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1984[17]

  • Genre(s): dance-punk, gothic rock, post-punk[18]

  • Community tags: 4ad, british, dance-punk, darkwave, england, english, goth, gothic rock, northampton, post-punk, uk[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ff3a293a-76d1-49a7-a5c5-fede02e7e648[20]

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Founding

1982 marks the founding of Tones on Tail[10]. Its location of formation is recorded as Northampton[11].

Why It Matters

Tones on Tail ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,955 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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