Bombay Bicycle Club is an Indie/Folk/Rock band from London. The band consists of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Ed Nash and Suren de Saram. The band formed in 2005 although since the ages of about 15 they were playing under differant band names like The Canals, they picked BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB which is named after a chain of indian restaurants in London.
Blending together sensual, reverb-slicked post-punk sensibilities with the kind of quirky, rhythmically adventurous bubbliness that brought to mind acts like Orange Juice, Bloc Party, and Vampire Weekend, Bombay Bicycle Club won the competition - which, in previous years, had been won by the likes of Young Knives - and were given a spot opening up V Festival that August. A flurry of offers to put out the band's first album came in from several big labels, but Bombay Bicycle Club opted to self-release their first disc on their homegrown label.
Produced by Jim Abiss (who'd previously worked with the Arctic Monkeys), Bombay Bicycle Club's debut EP, 'The Boy I Used To Be', was released in February 2007; the disc was given a warm critical reception, notably from the folks at NME. Another EP, 'How We Are', was released that October, debuting at the number two spot on the UK indie singles chart.
The members of Bombay Bicycle Club graduated upper secondary school the following June, and the rest of their summer was dominated by the release of a new single,'Evening/Morning' (released on the Young and Lost Club label), and a flurry of U.K. tour dates. Teaming up once again with Abiss, they recorded their debut full-length at Konk Studios that autumn. Bombay Bicycle Club signed with Island Records as the year came to a close; their debut full-length on that label, 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose', was released in July 2009.
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