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The Mighty Roars
12+ albums
indiehardcorepunk popalternative rocknew wave
about
The Mighty Roars are a female fronted 3 piece alternative rock band from London and Europe signed to One Little Indian Records London. Formed by David Pringuer (drums, vocals) and Lara Granqvist (bass, guitar, vocals) in 2004 after they met Martin Pilkington (guitar, vocals) through an advert in NME and began gigging in London. In 2005 they were invited to open that years Isle of Wight Festival which gained the band much publicity. The same year the band won Xfm's unsigned competition and were given day time radio play-listings. After attracting attention of Artrocker magazine who championed their self recorded debut EP online they were approached by Little Teddy Recordings of Munich, Germany[3] who released this EP "Take a bite of peach". Whilst touring in Austria the band were forced to sack their drummer who had been caught allegedly stealing from a promoter. David Pringuer, who had been playing bass, took the role and learned the drums and Lara Granqvist switched from rhythm guitar to the bass. The band had always recorded as a four piece but re-adapted their sound to fit the new line up. The first gig as this line up was at the club Madame Jo-Jo's supporting "Guillemots", the second was at the "Purple Turtle" in Camden, London where the band were approached by a scout for One Little Indian records with whom the band subsequently signed a recording contract in 2006. After a failed attempt to record the album in Malmo with Tore Johansson the band used their remaining r
