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The Everything. Just small band from Leicester who are taking up a lot of stoplight after their recent mention in Foals’ interview, they claimed The Everything to be “the ones to watch in 2013” and Basic Magazine wanted to be the first to hear from them.

The new band consists of three members James, Hadley and Reece who have grown up together. The 18 year olds are still young and lack experience in the industry but the music they have been producing has caught a lot of attention. The Everything originally started posting their songs on YouTube and received a staggering 1.1 million views on their most recent single “Carried Away”. XL recordings, a big record label who have also signed Friendly Fires to their label and worked with The XX saw potential in there videos and decided to sign them on. “Life changing.” Is what James from The Everything said, “when we got the call from XL it was one of the most nerve racking conversations, it was just such a shock for us, but we are so happy to be with XL and recording our new album” The teens have been warned by there label not to get much spotlight, the lads were recently captured in a bar fight in their local town. “There still young and learning,” spoke Richard Russell, founder of XL Recordings, “they have great potential and we don’t want them to waste it away through their behaviour”.

            They are due to release their new EP “Back Where We Started” on June 14^th and Hadley has high hopes for the release. “We have spent a lot of time recording our album now and its almost complete, it’s been a great laugh with the lads” During the interview we got to catch up with songwriter Reece who explained how the boys kick started their careers. “We’ve always been mates during school, music has also been our interest so we just thought, fuck it lets make a band… and it worked!” he also added “We started off small performing at pubs/bars etc. until we realised YouTube could help us get more attention, and we noticed people actually really enjoyed the music”

            

Band Profile

Band Name: The Everything

Music Style: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Synths

Influences: Foals, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines, Everything Everything, Friendly Fires, The Maccabees 

Members: 3 members, bass guitar, drums and vocals. 3 males, 1 guitar and vocal, 1 bass guitar, 1 drums.


Cover: 3 members, possibly two so i can avoid overcrowding and cramming on the cover which could potentially give off an unprofessional look.

Style: stand next to each other to add to the simplistic look, or in a triangle e.g 1 in front, two behind, to add a feeling of importance to the lead singer of the band. Clothing will be skinny jeans, plain simple t shirt or shirt branded, e.g fred perry. Mid shot, no shoes or full jeans revealed. Hair style is neat, add to simplistic look, also short back and side haircut. Or messy hair, contrasts to simplistic look and fits the genre better, conventional look of a typical indie/alternative band e.g foals. Or more vintage, old fashioned shoot, adds effect well because it looks minimalistic.

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