The Wombats

Ever since Murph, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis – who met and formed The Wombats at the Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts in 2003 - emerged in 2006 and swiftly became chart-quashing champions of the noughties guitar pop explosion with hits including ‘Moving To New York’, ‘Kill The Director’ and ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’, they’ve barely looked back. The euphoric tales of romantic misadventures in cinemas, forests, weddings and rock clubs that filled their platinum-selling 2007 debut album ‘A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation’ garnered them a strong and dedicated fanbase in thrall to Murph’s amalgam of irrepressible hooks and downbeat tragi-comic lyricism and with such bare-hearted emotional depth to their ditties, The Wombats resolutely refuse to be a flash in the pan.

Signed with Modern Sky UK, this rapidly rising indie-rock band is among the most happening acts right now on the new music scene in Liverpool, a city that never tires of sharpening the cutting edge. Influenced by much-loved retro sounds (The La’s, The Smiths, The Police), Keyside deliver their work through a unique and decidedly unapologetic Scouse filter that will “…take you out of a darkened sweaty basement and into the fresh fields of festival season” (Liverpool Noise).