West meets East and pow
American alternative band LANY – its name is an acronym for Los Angeles New York – will make their debut live show in Bangkok at DnD Club in Ekamai So
When the LA-based trio first came together in 2014, their only aim was to work on a couple of tracks together, demo them, and have some fun in the process. Living on the West Coast, singer Paul was putting together a scratch band and played a handful of shows. But by the end of 2013, he says, he knew that something had to give. Which is where Les and Jake enter the picture. Paul conceived the idea of enlisting his friends’ help on that brief trip to visit college friends. What none of them knew was that the step they were about to take would turn out to be so significant. In the space of four days, the trio recorded two songs – songs that would lead to the formation of LANY and, not long afterwards, to the band signing to Polydor Records. Six days after putting the tracks online the band found themselves fielding emails from major-label suitors.
“ILYSB” marked the moment where LANY reached over the heads of the A&R community and started connecting directly with fans. The song exploded online and a similar alchemy occurred repeatedly in the other songs LANY put online – a succession of singles, and the EPs “I Loved You” and “Make Out” – over the course of 2015. |
LANY has just completed an impressive sold out run of UK and European dates and are about to embark on a 36 date US headline tour ending in two nights in Los Angeles where they live and LANY was born.
Named No 1 on Spotify's most streamed artist of all time through the Spotify Discover feature with streams in excess of 50 million on Spotify alone, the trio is surely only beginning.
Find out what makes they tick at the Bangkok gig. Tickets are Bt2,000 at www.ThaiTicketMajor.com.
