# Honeyroot

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{{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](/source/Sheffield), England
| genre           = {{flatlist|
* [Ambient](/source/Ambient_music)
* [dance](/source/dance_music)
}}
| years_active    = {{Start date|1997}}&ndash;present
| label           = Just Music
| associated_acts = {{flatlist|
* [Heaven 17](/source/Heaven_17)
* [ABC](/source/ABC_(band))
}}
| website         = {{url|honeyroot.com}}
| current_members = 
* [Glenn Gregory](/source/Glenn_Gregory) 
* Keith Lowndes
}}
'''Honeyroot''' is an [ambient](/source/ambient_music) [dance](/source/dance_music) collaboration between [Glenn Gregory](/source/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](/source/Skyscraping)'' by [ABC](/source/ABC_(band)). As ABC was essentially [Martin Fry](/source/Martin_Fry), after the departure of founding member [Mark White](/source/Mark_White_(British_musician)), Lowndes and fellow [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield) native Gregory of [Heaven 17](/source/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](/source/UK_Singles_Chart) in May 2005 with their ambient [cover version](/source/cover_version) of the [Joy Division](/source/Joy_Division) song "[Love Will Tear Us Apart](/source/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart)",<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> which also appeared in the Scottish film, ''[Red Road](/source/Red_Road_(film))''. 2006 saw an [online](/source/internet) only release entitled "EP1".

''The Sun Will Come'' (2007) featured two [singles](/source/single_(music)), the double [A-sided](/source/A-side_and_B-side) "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](/source/human_voice) 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](/source/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](/source/Love_Will_Tear_Us_Apart)" (2005) - [UK](/source/UK_Singles_Chart) #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"

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==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]

{{Heaven 17}}
{{ABC (band)|ABC}}

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Category:English dance music groups
Category:Musical groups from Sheffield
Category:English electronic music duos
Category:Male musical duos
Category:British ambient music groups
Category:ABC (band)
Category:Heaven 17

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