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Thee Faction are a rock/garage punk band from Surrey, UK, noted for their explicit Socialist agenda. They refer to their music, which incorporates elements of garage rock, pop and rhythm and blues as "Socialist RnB". Their album ''Up The Workers!'' was rated one of the Daily Mirror's top twenty albums of 2011. == Biography == Thee Faction's debut album ''At Ebbw Vale'' was released in 2010. Dubbed 'rhythm and booze' and 'timely' by Simon Price in The Independent it was rated 8/10 in Vive Le Rock. Is This Music? praised the record, comparing the band to Dr. Feelgood. Second album ''Up The Workers! or, Capitalism is Good For Corporations That's Why You've Been Told Socialism is Bad All Your Life'' was described by the Daily Mirror as "Power-packed garage rock 'n' soul underlined by a defiantly political edge."〔 The title track featured Ivan Chandler (The Echoes) on piano.〔 The album was rated 7/10 by Drowned in Sound who praised it as "a lot of fun, undeniably stirring.. Thee Faction write showstoppers" but also criticised the music as "entertaining in a very conventional way". Thee Faction's third album ''Singing Down The Government, or, The War of Position and How We're Winning It'', was released in 2012, and introduced all-female horn section Brass Kapital. The album was promoted by headlining appearances at the Marxism Festival and Tolpuddle Martyrs festival and included contributions by Richard Archer from Hard-Fi and rapper Clencha.〔 Free download-only singles for tracks 'Soapbox' and 'Sausage Machine' were accompanied by promotional videos. Q Magazine praised the album as "a critique of societal hegemony on the back of a grimy blues'n’b twang, rife with the contagious energy of people who know they're right", and it was rated 7/10 by Mick Farren in Classic Rock Blues magazine. Thee Faction released their latest album ''Good Politics: Your Role As An Active Citizen Within Civil Society''〔 in 2013, preceded by single 'Better Than Wages', remixed from the album by Andy Lewis. The album featured (on one track each) guest vocals from writer Francis Wheen and saxophone from Crayola Lectern, and was rated 8/10 in Classic Rock and 4/5 in The Independent and Mojo who called it "wildly galvanising, blisteringly angry, insanely entertaining blue-collar rock'n'roll". Thee Faction released fifth album ''Reading Writing Revolution: The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall'' in June 2015,〔http://www.rhythm-and-booze.co.uk/?p=12037〕 preceded by a track on double-CD fundraising album ''Orgreave Justice''〔http://louderthanwar.com/orgreave-truth-and-justice-cd-out-now/〕〔http://otjc.org.uk/otjc-cd-out-now/〕 and free download single "Choose Your Enemy", released on March 29 with accompanying video.〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahlsxIry67E〕〔https://theefaction.wordpress.com/download-choose-your-enemy/〕 A second free download single "(You've Got The) Numbers (Why Don't You Use It)" accompanied the release. The album received 5/5 in the Morning Star,〔http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7735-Factional-activity-a-revolutionary-gem〕 9/10 at MaximumVolumeMusic,〔http://www.maximumvolumemusic.com/review-thee-faction-reading-writing-revolution/〕 and a positive review in Socialist Standard,〔http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1335-november-2015〕 while R *E *P *E *A *T zine called it "highly enjoyable, dangerously tuneful, subversively catchy and dialectically danceable, as well as being (as the title implies) properly educational - thought provoking and agitational."〔http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Reviews/Reading%20Writing%20Revolution%20thee%20faction.htm〕 The band announced a number of summer festival dates, including Glastonbury,〔http://vivelerock.net/thee-faction-get-their-rs-in-gear/〕 and a return to Tolpuddle〔https://www.tuc.org.uk/about-tuc/regions/billy-bragg-returns-tolpuddle-festival-2015〕 and the Matchwomens Festival.〔http://www.matchfest.co.uk/matchfest-line-up.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thee Faction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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