Having just come off a sell out tour of the UK with Two Door Cinema Club, it's safe to say We Have Band have built up a new legion of fans with their high energy sets and stole the show quite comfortably alongside their higher esteemed trio.
We Have Band are Darren Bancroft (vocals, drums, percussion, sampler), Dede W-P (vocals, percussion, sampler) and husband Thomas W-P (vocals, guitar, bass, programming). They are a London based do-it-yourself trio who achieve a totally unique sound.
In 2009 We Have Band toured the world and spent alot of time in the studio with producer Gareth Jones. In Glastonbury We Have Band won the “Glastonbury Festival’s 2009 Emerging Talent Contest” and are now hoping to prove the critics right, with their debut album WHB.
Drawing from a well of influences that include ESG, Animal Collective and The Rapture, the band created their own sound - a 21st Century mixtape that defies categorisation or pigeonholing. With the prime focus on making people dance, they quickly took the big step of taking their music to the stage, despite having little to no previous experience between them. “We learnt quickly” says Dede, “I never thought I’d be in a band, I definitely didn’t ever see myself on a stage! But after the first few shows you get over the scary bit and the buzz just took over – there was no looking back.”
‘The snowball effect’ is a fitting description for the band’s first year; play a few shows in London, play a few more outside of London, start getting a lot more hits on MySpace, NME and Dazed & Confused get in touch about doing ‘ones to watch’ features, label’s start calling and before you know it they have their first release.
