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Tarantula

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Tarantula is a London based folk rock band with mediterranean influences. 
The members of the band met in Bologna in 2009(North Italy) where they studied for a B.A. Degree in Contemporary music performance. In 2012 they moved to London where they started playing in different projects.
 In December 2014 they started working on this original project and they started gigging in several London venues. 
The member of the band are: Mauro Lacandia, Paolo Tognoloni, Mattia Biondi, Francesco Azzariti and Jay Northover. 
The spider originally bearing the name "tarantula" was Lycosa tarantula, a species of wolf spider native to Mediterranean Europe.The name derived from that of the southern Italian town of Taranto in the middle of Salento where Mauro comes from.