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The Voom Blooms
12+ albums
indie rockalternativebritpopalternative invadersindie
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"They write songs about ships, have the whole psychedelic 60s thing going on, they play harmonicas and jangly guitars and their bass player sounds like he jumped in a time machine to spend the night spying on Phil Spector working with the Ronnettes. The Voom Blooms debut EP 'nine ships', due for summer release is an incredible little record. Already championed by MTV, Rolling Stone and Radio1 as being a band to watch out for in 2009!" Formed sept 2005 in the small town of Loughborough, UK The Voom Blooms kicked off their first collection of shows playing alongside Babyshambles, The Enemy, The View, Boy Kill Boy, Larrikin Love and The Paddingtons after playing a series of in-house-gigs to packed out kitchens and hallways across the country. Early support from Radio1 Dj's Steve Lamacq and Zane Lowe saw the band's first two singles 'politics & cigarettes' and 'anna' both sell out rather quickly within a matter of days, earning the band a winning slot on Radio1's "fresh meat" and securing headline Club NME and Barfly tours across the UK. After only a matter of 6 months of being togther the boys ended their summer 2006 tour with a packed-out headline slot on the "Jim Beam Rising Stage" at Leicester's summer sundae festival. "i think it all happened so fast. The 1st demo we recorded, 'politics & cigarettes', had earned us a one-off single deal with Fiction/polydor and before we knew it we were sat in a pub arguing with Lamacq over what was the best Blur song before listening to o
