No Atlas

Updated on Dec 03, 2023

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Years active 2013 (2013)—2015 Record label El Foreigners Music		Labels El Foreigners Music Genres Indie rock, Rock music
Associated acts Last Rights, Born at the River, Bridges, Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, Bleechroom, The Provincial Archive Members Ollie Weikert - Vocals - Bass Bradley Hutchings - Guitar Andy Burgess - Drums Past members Thomas Muddle - Bass, Vocals Toby Smallwood - Bass Origin Cheltenham, United Kingdom (2013) Albums Where People Have Been, Reply & Reply

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No Atlas were an English progressive-indie band from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, formed in 2013. The band consisted of Ollie Weikert (lead vocals, bass), Bradley Hutchings (guitar, backing vocals), Andy Burgess (drums, percussion).

No Atlas (originally called Metropolis) released their debut EP Where People Have Been in 2013 and their popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their single, “I Don’t Wanna” (2013). No Atlas’ second EP, Reply and Reply (2014), propelled them to greater national exposure with consistent radio airplay from BBC Introducing, BBC 6 Music and Tone Radio.

They are of the few indie rock bands to hail from the Cheltenham music scene at the dawn of the 2013 and almost singularly helped create the progressive-indie movement.

In July 2015 it was announced they would be splitting but it is rumoured they may reunite and begin touring again.

History

Weikert, Hutchings and Burgess met as students on the Popular Music course at the University of Gloucestershire, and began playing under the name Metropolis. They first played live at Mosaic House, Prague, (Czech Republic), with stand-in bass player Toby Smallwood. After releasing their debut EP "Where People Have Been" the band continued to progress with radio airplay, national television interviews and live sessions for the BBC and with new bass player (Thomas Muddle) the band began to play shows. Initially they played gigs at small Cheltenham venues such as The Frog and Fiddle, 2 Pigs and St Pauls Tavern but then later moved to playing venues in London and Bristol such as The Croft and Tooting Tram and Social. In late 2013 No Atlas supported Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun on their sold-out homecoming show in Cheltenham. In early 2014 the band signed to El Foreigners Music and released their second EP Reply and Reply which was received with positive critical acclaim by online music blogs such as Scatter Magazine and Don't Need No Melody. The band played an up-and-coming showcase for Two Thousand Trees Festival at the Frog and Fiddle, after which Muddle left the band to pursue other musical ventures, fronting short-lived post-grunge outfit Bloody Gums. The band went on to successfully play shows as a 3 piece with Weikert as the bass player.

In July 2015 No Atlas announced via bandcamp they were splitting as a band, releasing demos from a planned future album, stating "Half of what was to be a possible future album, we unanimously decided to release the following songs and demos to say a massive thank you to what No Atlas was always about - the people who supported us. " It has been rumoured that No Atlas will be reuniting and playing shows at Butlins.

Currently Burgess is doing session work, Weikert is writing music and Hutchings' whereabouts is unknown.