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Project Music: The Boo Radleys  British group of The Nineties,
named after a character in To Kill a Mockingbird, who started as
a Shoegazing band, became Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly
experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted
into the Britpop movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies
towards the end. Most remembered by the general public for the
hit "Wake Up Boo!".  While definitely considered part of the
first wave of Shoegazing bands, they lasted much longer than
most of their contemporaries (Catherine Wheel being the only
band that would still be together into the 2000s, My Bloody
Valentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff
you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine
Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second
Wave shoegazing bands (or, to complicate things even more, the
release of My Vitriol's F