User:Ttonyb1/Brother (Britpop band)

Brother are a 4-piece Britpop band from Slough, Berkshire, UK. They are Leonard Newell, Frank Colucci, Samuel Jackson and Josh Ward. They describe their sound as “Gritpop”. They were signed to major global record label Geffen Records in October 2010 and to EMI Publishing in November 2010.

In October 2010 BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe picked-up on the band's blog site www.acidlove.net. The site featured a video of the band setting-up and playing a guerrilla gig in front of the railway station of their hometown, Slough, along with a promo video they had shot using money they had earned playing local gigs. Zane Lowe subsequently played their demo of Darling Buds of May on his BBC Radio 1 show every evening for a week. This sparked an A&R frenzy, and the band were quickly signed to major record label Geffen Records.