| • | Unbelievable Truth was a British band, led by Andy Yorke, brother of the more famous Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, and also formed by Nigel Powell, Jason Moulster and Jim Crosskey.
The band formed in 1993 in Oxford, and was named after Hal Hartley's film, The Unbelievable Truth.
Unbelievable Truth's first single, Building, was published in February 1997 by Shifty Disco, a label based in Oxford.They released their first album, Almost Here, in 1998, and the second, Sorrythankyou in 2000. The first was released on Virgin, but they were dropped and the latter appeared on Shifty Disco.
They split up in 2000, due to Andy Yorke's decision to leave the band.
However, in 2001 they released a double album, self-published, called Misc. Music, whose disc 1 contained b-sides and unreleased tracks, while disc 2 was the live recording of their farewell show held at the Zodiac in Oxford on September 16th, 2000.Nigel Powell now has a new band: The Sad Song Co., while Andy Yorke played a solo slot supporting Mark Mulcahy, at a gig at The Zodiac in Oxford on 21st October, 2005.
Source: [wikipedia: unbelievable truth]
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