We're loving Liverpool quintet The Little Flames, who supported The Arctic
Monkeys at their run of secret gigs last week.
Now, the guys and girl are getting ready to release their new single Isobella and are playing a date at the Barfly on March 30.
It’s early days, but The Little Flames are already building up a considerable fan base.
NME described their sound as ‘brilliant, sashaying, indie strummery’, The
Fly proclaimed the band to be ‘cool as fuck with red hot tunes to match’ and
The Sunday Times branded their music as ‘irresistible’.
The Little Flames are Eva Petersen (lead vocals), Mat Gregory (guitar), Miles
Kane (guitar & vocals), Joe Edwards (bass & vocals) and Greg Mighall
(drums). Brought together by mutual friends, they hit it off immediately.
“One night, we ended up back at this dingy basement flat by the park, we just stayed up all night, trying to keep warm, playing as fast as we could," says Mat. "We had this seventies
Casio keyboard with a drum machine and some horrible, cheap rusty stringed
guitars. The flat above was abandoned, so we cranked everything up and it
began kicking off. We’d only been together about eighteen hours. It was
proper chaos. After listening back to the end of the recording, we put
together an early version of Goodbye Little Rose, which went on to be our
first single�
The band soon came to the attention of Deltasonic kingpin, Alan Wills, who
immediately found them room at his stable alongside The Coral, The Zutons
and The Dead 60s. The Little Flames have spent the last few months recording
their debut album ‘The Day Is Not Today (out in the summer), working
alongside producers Central Nervous System (Dead 60s) and later with Tore
Johannsen (Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans) at the famous Gulan Studios in
Malmo, Sweden.