What band won a Brit Award for British Breakthough and was Billy Bibby a founding member of?
Billy Bibby &amp; The Wry Smiles Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles are a British indie rock band formed in the autumn of 2015 in the area around Llandudno, North Wales and Chester, UK. The band is fronted by Billy Bibby, former lead guitarist and founding member of Catfish and the Bottlemen. Bibby parted ways with Catfish and the Bottlemen in the summer of 2014, shortly after co-writing and recording their Platinum selling debut album, "The Balcony". Soon thereafter, Billy Bibby began writing songs and playing acoustic shows in various UK cities in order to test public response to his new music. In the spring of 2015, Billy Bibby began seeking musicians to form a new band. Auditions were conducted with the help of Simon Jones, formerly of The Verve. Band members Rob Jones (lead guitar), Matt Bassy (bass), and Michael Pearce (drums) were selected to form the four-piece ensemble.
Fanny Adams (band) Fanny Adams was a briefly existing progressive rock super-group formed by ex-pat Australians and New Zealanders in mid-1970. The quartet comprised Johnny Dick on drums (ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Doug Parkinson in Focus), Vince Melouney on guitar (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Vince Maloney Sect, Bee Gees), Doug Parkinson on lead vocals and rhythm guitar (ex-Questions, In Focus) and Teddy Toi on bass guitar (ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Little Sammy and the In People). They relocated to Australia in December and broke up there after a few months. Their debut eponymous album appeared in June 1971, which Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described as "adventurous, heavy, progressive blues-rock... Melouney's crunching, multi-layered Jimmy Page-styled guitar riffs kept the whole thing together."