Welcome to the music of Van Tramp: a stadium-sized band with classic timeless tunes. A London-based five-piece with a Canadian-born singer who bristle with lung-bursting, heart-swelling, sky-scraping songs. Who recorded their debut album - on the hush hush - in the home ground of Fulham FC. Who want to do what Paul McGuinness said U2 do: 'write great songs that move people'. As simple - and as brilliant - as that.

Van Tramp are Tim Howar (singer), Patrick Mascall (guitar), Mike Potter (bass), Guy Snellar (drums) and Andy Tinning (keys).   Set for a 30th June release through Tunepony Records, debut album "VAN TRAMP" reboots the classic soul-flavoured stomp of The Faces and The Stones for the 21st Century  and was produced by Grammy winner Mark Taylor (Cher, Enrique, The
Automatic, James Morrison).   The album is preceded on 23rd June with the single release of achingly heartfelt ballad  "SOMETHING" which tells the tale of a tough time for chief songwriter Patrick Mascall:  he chose to leave his girlfriend in Australia while he returned  to the UK to try and make it with the band.  The good news is that she came back into his life and they're now getting married.

Frontman Howar developed an enduring passion for British music from an early age: like the scene from Almost Famous he inherited his sister's record collection of The Beatles, The Stones and The Who at age six.  As an adult he moved to Toronto to chase his musical dreams, performing in pubs, clubs and the theatre and meeting Jeff Buckley, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend in the process.

Just as Howar was busy looking one way across the Atlantic, Mascall was looking the other: making his own pilgrimage to the heartland of American music, while writing songs for his new band Van Tramp. After a lengthy process  of auditions eventually a mutual friend introduced them to Howar, who had finally moved to London to immerse himself in the music scene he
loved.  

Having found their man, Mascall immediately wrote a song with Tim's voice in mind, the quietly rousing and life-affirming Help Me Make It,  which along with The Garden ,a rollicking track about friendship that evokes Maggie May and the highs and lows of many a night on the sauce,  Hope & Pray (which sounds like it was written in Memphis in '73 and recorded ten minutes later in the Stones Mobile in the South of France)  and new single Something, are several stand-out songs on a stand-out album.  Future single Hope & Pray has already been chosen by Sony Ericsson to advertise their new download music service.  

Welcome to Van Tramp - coming soon to a smoking hot gig and an FM-rockin'
radio near you soon!