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The Musgraves

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Genres
  
Roots Music

Website
  
www.themusgraves.co.uk

Albums
  
You That Way I This Way

Years active
  
2011 – present

Genre
  
Folk music

Members
  
Matthew Bennett (vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, ukulele) Matt Foundling (piano, keyboards, vocals) Tom Farnell Jr (drums, percussion) Lesley-Marie Turner (violin, ukulele, glockenspiel, vocals)

Origin
  
Birmingham, United Kingdom (2008)

Record labels
  
OK! Good Records, 1st Cut Recordings

Similar
  
A Genuine Freakshow, Heloise and the Savoir Fa, Jon Allen, Hafdís Huld, Sparkadia

Profiles

Little mix dna acoustic cover by the musgraves


The Musgraves are a British roots-pop band. The band consists of Matthew Bennett (vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, ukulele), Matt Foundling (piano, keyboards, vocals), Tom Farnell Jr (drums, percussion), and Lesley-Marie Turner (violin, ukulele, glockenspiel, vocals). The band is based in Birmingham, England, with members from Wolverhampton, Hull and Birmingham.

Contents

The musgraves discover me


Career

The band gained popularity in 2011 with their EP Lost In Familiarity, featuring four songs: "So Sofia"; "Back To Me"; "Discover Me"; and "Fortune Teller". "So Sofia" won support from BBC 6Music and was first played by Tom Robinson. It also won praise from Q Magazine and was featured as a 'Q The Music Track of the Day'.

An instrumental version of "Discover Me" was used as the sound bed for the BT (British Telecom) Wedding, part of a television advertising campaign that followed a fictional couple from their initial meeting through to their wedding day. The Wedding advert premiered during 'Britain’s Got Talent' a week before the official wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. They then appeared on BBC WM Introducing.

The Musgraves debut single, "Last of Me" (to be released digitally in March 2012), was first championed by Graham Norton on his BBC Radio 2 show. Before appearing on The Graham Norton Show, televised on 3 February 2012, the band had their van containing all of their equipment stolen on Sunday 29 January 2012 from Lichfield. Staffordshire Police are presently investigating the theft of the Mercedes Sprinter van. The first unsigned band to play the show, the band played the set with borrowed equipment and clothes. A second single, "Comfortable Shoes", is set for release in May 2012. Their debut album will follow.

Songs

The Way You Make Me Want YouYou That Way I This Way · 2012
So SofiaYou That Way I This Way · 2012
Last of MeYou That Way I This Way · 2012

References

The Musgraves Wikipedia