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The band chose the name, The Vibrants, as they feel it reflects the music they play and the way they play it. It’s all about the energy, this quintet from London exude that has people around the world talking about them.
With comparisons in the press to Razorlight, Bloc Party, The Charlatans, The Police and The Clash, The Vibrants consciously steer away from sounding like everyone else and have a simple fundamental belief: write songs!
The writing process involves every band member and with everyone’s different tastes and backgrounds, Giles Farnham (Vocals) puts it this way: “Each song is worked on and crafted until everyone is happy with it. When we’re writing the song, it’s ours. When the audience hears it for the first time, it’s theirs”.
Giles first met guitarist Sam Holt at school in Twickenham when they were 11 years old. They messed around in bands together until they went to college and things got a bit more serious. They met Steve Devlin, a bass player who, by his own admission, “used to play way too many strings”. After agreeing that a bass guitar should only have 4 strings, Steve joined the band.
The songs were coming but sound wasn’t big enough for them, they needed a keyboard player and so put an ad in the paper. The phone was ringing off the hook. All the calls were from one person: “Hi, This is Laurence, I’m not a stalker, I want to be your keyboard player”. After one rehearsal room session, Laurence Langan declared he was the keyboard player.
The line up was complete in October 2006 when James Hayward joined the band on drums. James was looking for a band and after listening to some Vibrants’ demos decided it was “right up (his) English country garden path”.
Since then, the band has gathered a large fan base in the UK, USA and Canada, supporting acts such as Badly Drawn Boy, The Subways, The Wombats, Ida Maria, Rotating Leslie, Athlete, Good Shoes, Everything Everything, Pull Tiger Tail & The Guillemots, Nine Black Alps and Captain.
The Vibrants started 2008 sharing a stage with Mika and The Feeling at The London Eye launching the new Fiat 500. A host of celebrities including Kelly Osbourne, Eva Herzigova and Jade Jagger wereat the show broadcast live on Virgin Radio.
High-profile appearances include festivals such as Liverpool SoundCity, Edinburgh Fringe, Beach Break Festival, Canadian Music Week and North by North East, a festival the band has been invited to play 3 times.
The Vibrants have received airplay around the world including XFM (UK), Motor FM (GER) and many stations in the US. The band’s single ‘First Move’ was playlisted on ‘Passport Approved’ on Indie 103.1FM (Los Angeles, USA). The response from industry and fans was very positive. So in April 2008 the band headed over to California to embark on a West-Coast tour that kicked off at The House of Blues, Hollywood, for the music fair, MUSExpo.
Also this year, the song ‘First Move’ was featured on Sky One’s Soccer AM and ‘I Wont Sleep (Terrify)’ was personally chosen by Travis frontman, Fran Healy to feature on a Compilation of songs by new artists, put together by Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
The Vibrants are finding their audience by getting out there and performing around the world. The power and energy in the lyrics as well as in the music are bringing in more fans who all eagerly await the band’s first album in early 2009.
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