Lottery Winners (band)

History

Lottery Winners started due to Rylance and Lally's passion for music. They could play guitar and sing, but neither knew anyone who could play bass. They made a 'Bassist Wanted' poster and placed it on the notice board of Heybrook Music, Leigh's only guitar shop. Fifteen-year-old bassist Katie Lloyd walked past the shop on that day and decided to look into it. The band was completed when Joe Singleton received a phone call from Katie, a best friend from high school, insisting that he should join the band.

Singles

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Reception

"Somewhere on the musical spectrum between the blithe of the Beach Boys and the suffering of the Smiths". - Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music

"The most infectious few minutes of indie-pop you've heard in a long while". - NME

"Some of the most gloriously British guitar-pop we've heard in years". - Q Magazine

"Young Love is a giddy guitar-pop joy". - Digital Spy

"Young Love is exuberant, it's hella catchy and it breathes life into a genre that is long overdue an injection of fresh-faced energy." - Chart Shaker

"Young Love will have you dancing around the room in footsteps of joy". - Emerging Indie Bands

"...it's a feel-good romper that's going to be one of our songs of the summer." - One On One Music

"They specialise in guitar-pop of the very best kind. Huge, bright, infectious,sweeping songs that draw influence from the likes of The Smiths, The Housemartins, The La's, or The Beautiful South." - MusicExistence.com

"The Lottery Winners deliver a solid slice of catchy, jingly-jangly, indie-pop with their new single, Young Love". - CDNX

"Often you are told a band are great live by their representatives but rarely is it true. However, in the case of the Lottery Winners it most definitely is true. It took 10 seconds for our massed throng to fall head over heels. Not only are they a tight band but they command the stage holding the audience's attention throughout. You cannot fail to warm to their charisma and energy converting you into an immediate fan. No matter who the audience the Lottery Winners are undoubted crowd pleasers." - Music Week

"They came, they played, the blew us away". - Tony Livesey, BBC Radio 5 Live

"The Lottery Winners are currently the very best of UK rock and pop. They have such a great sense of themselves, unlike anything I have seen and heard in contemporary music in a long, long while. They were the obvious choice to open for us on tour. I love 'em!" - Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff).