Website goldensilvers.co.uk | Years active 2008 - 2010 Active from 2007 | |
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Labels XL RecordingsBronze Records Members Gwilym GoldBen MoorhouseRobden Alexis Nunez Albums True Romance, True Romance (True No.9 Blues), Please Venus, Yesterday and Today Similar Gwilym Gold, Jack Peñate, Peter Denton, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, Paul Garred |
Golden silvers feat hypnotic brass ensemble arrows of eros
Golden Silvers were a band from London signed to independent record label XL. The line-up consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Gwilym Gold , Ben Moorhouse on bass guitar, and Robden Alexis Nunez on drums.
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- Golden silvers feat hypnotic brass ensemble arrows of eros
- Band advice golden silvers
- Early stages
- Music
- Appearances
- Songs
- References
Band advice golden silvers
Early stages

The band gained recognition by winning Glastonbury's prestigious New Talent competition in 2008 and subsequently performed on The Other stage that year. They played the Glastonbury Festival in 2009.
Music

The band released its debut album True Romance on April 20, 2009. Describing the new album, The Guardian's reviewer wrote "flamboyant lyrics, references to Greek myth and big, elastic bass lines dominate".
Appearances

The band performed two songs on Later...with Jools Holland during May 2009 and have supported Blur at Hyde Park, London. They played a popular set at Reading festival 2009 and gave away necklaces to the audience as thanks for coming to see them.
Aside from live appearances, Golden Silvers' vocalist Gwilym Gold curates a quarterly live event night named 'Bronze Club' at East London pub 'The Macbeth'. Bronze Blog is known to showcase a wide variety of musicians and DJs including Mystery Jets, The Invisible, Micachu, Esser, Everything Everything, Othello Wolf and many more. Since its inception, Bronze Club has said to have gathered a strong following, which has led attendants to dress up in relation to the Ages of Man in Greek Mythology; gold, silver and bronze.


Songs
Arrows of ErosTrue Romance · 2009
Magic TouchTrue Romance · 2009
Please VenusTrue Romance · 2009