Culture: Earlies Rise to the Occasion ; Simon Harper Discovers the Transatlantic Chemistry Behind Britain's Brightest Band

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With the development of technology, sending music recordings across the Atlantic Ocean takes mere seconds and the click of a button. Much faster than your average postal service, this handy method of 'conference' song-writing eventually spawned the debut album by The Earlies, a cross-continental collective trading in traditional folk, chamber pop and skittering electronic flourishes.

Multi-instrumentalist Christian Madden is one quarter of the core group of musicians that make up The Earlies, and one of two members from northern England. The Burnley native reveals that it was a chance meeting which led to the band's formation.

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Culture: Earlies Rise to the Occasion ; Simon Harper Discovers the Transatlantic Chemistry Behind Britain's Brightest Band

'John-Mark was over in Manchester doing an engineering and recording course at the School of Sound Recording there. I used to knock about there, recording a bit with Giles, and we just met him in the bar above there. In the meantime he'd met Brandon, the singer, in Texas and ...

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