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Buffalo Summer are a Welsh rock band formed in 2010.

Formation and early years
Lead guitarist Jonny Williams and lead vocalist Andrew Hunt had been sporadically writing songs together for a number of years, despite being in separate bands. The pair recruited bassist Darren King and Andrew's brother Gareth on drums in order to complete the line-up.

The band spent several months in the Spring of 2010 writing and rehearsing songs and began to perform live in the Summer of 2010, throughout the various gig venues of South Wales.

In March 2011 the band entered the studio to record their eponymous début album.

Début album
The band recorded their ten-track debut album in just five days in Mwnci Studios, Carmarthenshire. The band then spent the following year playing many shows in the local area and contributing money out of their own pockets in order to afford the costs of recording, mixing and mastering the album. The band added the single "Down To The River" to their Soundcloud page in Autumn 2011 and then added another single "A Horse Called Freedom" on Christmas Day. The album was self-released in February 2012.

In the following months the album gained many favourable reviews, most notably from Classic Rock Magazine - who invited the band to their London offices for a photo shoot and to record an acoustic session. This would be the first time the band had ever ventured outside of their home nation of Wales.

In August 2012 the band opened for Status Quo in Singleton Park, Swansea. To date, this was the biggest show that the band had played.

In November 2012 the band signed to the TKO Booking Agency, and in April 2013 their début album was re-released via Cargo Records.

Touring
From November 2012 onwards the band embarked on a rigorous touring schedule that saw the band sharing stages with Skid Row, Ugly Kid Joe, Heaven's Basement & Walking Papers (featuring Duff McKagan and Barrett Martin.) The band also completed a headline tour of Spain in February of 2013 and appeared at Download Festival in Donington Park, England.