Get "Ready to Go"with ‘Lonsdale Boys Club’

With their debut album, Lonsdale Boys Club – Charlie, Topher and Loz – have crafted a set of infectious, summer-tinged pre-made festival anthems. Signed to Gary Barlow’s Future label, they infuse each song with a dash of funkiness, the grit of the UK urban scene, a smattering of their love for all things house, a pinch of roots reggae, plenty of pop nous and of course, a gargantuan hook or twelve. “If we had to pigeon-hole it somehow I'd say it's zesty, sprightly guitar pop with an urban flavour and banging beats,” frontman Charlie says. Pre-Lonsdale Boys Club, the band were scattered across the globe, bassist Topher producing and working various jobs in Australia and Cyprus, Charlie Djing and writing songs for a possible solo career in London and Loz finishing his music studies in Liverpool as well as Djing at various drum n bass nights. Meeting through a mutual guitar teacher who had a studio on west London’s Lonsdale Road, it was only a matter of time before they came to their senses and realised that they had to be in a band together. One of their first demos went on to become debut single ‘Light Me Up’, but it was also the foundation of their core sound. Bunkering down in their own studio the band rattled through a host of songs before flying out to New York to work on them with producers S*A*M and Sluggo (Katy Perry, Gym Class Heroes, Moby). “To work with other people you have to have some kind of musical heritage to draw from,  these guys knew what we were referencing without having to explain it,” says Charlie. Around this time the band also stumbled upon another fan of their music, a certain Gary Barlow. Having discovered their demos on Facebook, Barlow approached them about signing to his label, Future Records. Having played two shows at the O2 on tour with Olly Murs and a host of festivals already, the band are just hitting their stride. “We're writing songs imagining them on a festival stage,” elaborates Topher. ‘Lonsdale Boys Club’ simultaneously covers all musical genres – rap, rock, pop, ska, urban, dance - while staying true to what makes the band so unique and fresh, from the arms aloft, synth-heavy ‘Still Waiting’ to the sexually-charged current single ‘Ready To Go’, which features Caggie Dunlop in its sun-kissed video. There’s also the likes of the bouncy, dubstep-tinged ‘Caroline’, the triumphant ‘Sista Shake’, the atmospheric, twitchy claustrophobia of ‘Battle Cry’, and ‘Hooligans & Hulagirls’, the song which has already become an anthem and calling card for Lonsdale Boys Club’s fans. In an iTunes-lead music world where barriers between genres simply don't exist anymore, Lonsdale Boys Club are a band of their time. They’ve collaborated with Yasmin, Sway and Wretch 32, while providing remixes for the likes of A*M*E. “We try to reflect what's going on and it's so uncommon to have people stuck in a genre because it's just about music now”. Their sound is a melting pot of ideas created by three young guys who are fully aware that their different tastes are what fuel their uniqueness. Somehow, like the perfect kind of chemistry, it all comes together to make pop music that simultaneously feels of its time and timeless, complex yet instant – and definitely the soundtrack for summer.

• 'Ready to Go' Lonsdale Boys Club’ – Debut Album released September 10th 2012
• ‘Ready To Go’ – Single released September 3rd 2012
• Supporting Jessie J at iTunes Festival, London Roundhouse – Sept 21st
• www.lonsdaleboysclub.com