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Natural Life were an English band of the early 1990s that are best described as a 'bohemian rock collective', their music being a combination of rock influences and dancefloor beats.
They emerged from London's Balearic dance movement and were quickly caught up in a bidding war between the major record labels. Their early gigs listed venues such as Danny Rampling's fledgling 'Milk Bar' and 'Eat The Worm' at the Hannover Grand, where they were supported by the then unknown Ocean Colour Scene. They were the only London based band to play 'Factory Day' at ' Cities in the Park' with The Happy Mondays, Electronic and A Certain Ratio. This almost exclusively Mancunian mini-festival was a memorial festival for the recently deceased Martin Hannett run by Factory Records.(see Cities in the Park video band list)
The band were signed to an offshoot of Hollywood Records called Tr1be Records. They toured extensively with indie dance act The Farm and provided support for Seal on his UK tour.
The band's first single "Strange World" was voted 'record of the week' by BBC Radio 1. The second single "Natural Life" received the same accolade two weeks running. Although the band enjoyed a large UK following and were regulars on the festival circuit playing at both the Glastonbury and Reading festivals that year, they never managed to break into the mainstream.
The band performed on Channel 4's The Word on 28 February 1992.
Their percussionist Shovell later found fame as a member of M People.
Natural Life is a Canadian magazine, founded in 1976 by Rolf Priesnitz. It is owned by Life Media, an independent Toronto-based book and magazine publishing company owned by Wendy Priesnitz who is the magazine's editor. The magazine is published by the Alternate Press three or four times a year. The website of the magazine was started in 1994. It has won awards for its balanced reporting of environmental issues and published its 30th anniversary issue in November 2006.
As one of the first Canadian sustainable lifestyles magazines, it pioneered the merging of content in a holistic manner - with each issue including articles on organic gardening, renewable energy, green homes, natural health, sustainable business, eco-tourism, homeschooling and natural parenting. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it published a U.S. edition and editions for various parts of Canada. It was relaunched in 1991 as one international edition and is now on the newsstands throughout North America and has readers in over 20 countries. With the renewed interest in environmental issues, it is flourishing as a trusted source of information about how to live and work in a sustainable manner.
Always conscious of its environmental footprint, it has been published on FSC-certified matte coated stock since 2005.
The Natural Life website features over 2,000 pages of free content from the past 14 years. The articles are indexed by subject and fully searchable by keyword, making the site a popular reference tool.