{{short description|Ambient dance collaboration between Glenn Gregory and Keith Lowndes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- For groups; see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Honeyroot | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = Sheffield, England | genre = {{flatlist| * Ambient * dance }} | years_active = {{Start date|1997}}&ndash;present | label = Just Music | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * Heaven 17 * ABC }} | website = {{url|honeyroot.com}} | current_members = * Glenn Gregory * Keith Lowndes }} '''Honeyroot''' is an ambient dance collaboration between Glenn Gregory and Keith Lowndes, signed to the independent record label Just Music.<ref name="AMG">{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p601393|pure_url=yes}} |title=Biography by Alex Henderson |publisher=Allmusic.com |access-date=23 March 2009}}</ref>

==Career== The project had its origins in the 1997 album ''Skyscraping'' by ABC. As ABC was essentially Martin Fry, after the departure of founding member Mark White, Lowndes and fellow Sheffield native Gregory of Heaven 17, were brought in for co-songwriting duties on the album.

Lowndes and Gregory's first album, ''Sound Echo Location'', was released in the UK and Australia in 2003 and in the US in 2004.<ref name="AMG"/>

Honeyroot reached the UK Singles Chart in May 2005 with their ambient cover version of the Joy Division song "Love Will Tear Us Apart",<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> which also appeared in the Scottish film, ''Red Road''. 2006 saw an online only release entitled "EP1".

''The Sun Will Come'' (2007) featured two singles, the double A-sided "Nobody Loves You (The Way I Do)" b/w "Heavy Drops" and "Where I Belong". Though known primarily as the front man for Heaven 17, Glenn Gregory sings on just two tracks on ''The Sun Will Come''; leaving remaining vocal duties to a variety of female singers including Briony Greenhill ("Nobody Loves You"),<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |first=Kate |last=Sharp |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/2rmq/ |title=Zen-like and suffused with joy, this is no return to the 80s for Glenn Gregory and co. |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 December 2009}}</ref> Kim Richey, Kerry Shaw, Elsie Wooley and Lindsay Crisp.<ref name="AMG"/>

==Discography== ===Albums=== * ''Sound Echo Location'' (2005), Just Music * ''The Sun Will Come'' (2007), Just Music

===Singles=== *"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (2005) - UK #70<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 266}}</ref> * "Nobody Loves You (The Way I Do)" / "Heavy Drops" (2010), Just Music * "Where I Belong"

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061205043304/http://honeyroot.com/ Official site] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2005/06/07/glenn_gregory_interview.shtml Glenn Gregory interview] *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/dance/albums/az/ BBC] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051214123056/http://www.justmusic.co.uk/store/TAO008/ Just Music] *[http://www.justmusic.co.uk/artists/honeyroot/ Honeyroot information]

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