Of Empires
Of Empires are a Brighton Based rock band, originally formed in Guernsey, an island in the Channel Islands. The band consists of Jack Fletcher (lead vocals), Liam Bewey (bass guitar, backing vocals), Matthew Berry (lead guitar, backing vocals), and George Le Page (drums, backing vocals).
The band have released 1 EP: Stranger Sensations(2014), with many music journalists rating the band as one's to watch for 2015, The Guardian[1] described the EP as ‘stomping, slow-motion riff-rock with snarling vocals and terrace-worthy choruses.’
The Stranger Sensations sessions were recorded in May 2014 in Brighton's vintage analogue studio The Toy Rooms, Brighton & Hove on the south coast of England. Home to producers Pablo Clements and James Griffith (Psychonauts/Unkle/Toydrum) and Nick Cave’s favourite city studio – the EP was recorded with Oasis engineer Ben Thackeray at the controls. Jon Gray, behind records by Kooks, The Subways, The Coral, The Zutons and Editors, mixed the tracks.
The band recently won MTV's Brand New Unsigned Winners 2015, beating hundreds of other unsigned artists to the win the prestigious title and recently filmed a live session[2] at MTV Studios, broadcast across the MTV network.
Of Empires were featured in an article by Brighton's local paper 'The Argus' along with James Bay and Anushka as 3 acts poised to make it big outside the city in 2015.[3]
As well as national and local press, the bands debut EP has received regular national airplay on 30 BBC radio stations across the country on the BBC Introducing network and the video for 'I Want You To Get Mad' was added to the MTV Rocks playlist in February broadcast daily on Sky 354 - Virgin 315 across the nation. It was recently announced that the band will be featured on Huw Stephens BBC Introducing show on Radio 1 on Wednesday 25th March.
- ^ Lester, Paul. "The playlist: new bands – Jack Garratt, Kid Astray, Of Empires and more". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Brand New For 2015 Unsigned Live Session". mtv.co.uk. MTV UK. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ Hall, Duncan. "Three acts poised to make it big in 2015 music". theargus.co.uk. The Argus. Retrieved 20 March 2015.