Four piece British band once described ever so eloquently by one muso journo as “…what Blur would have sounded like if they grew up listening to Carl Perkins”.

London four piece Burning Condors took flight when Marcus [Tommy] Thompson (Vocals) left his roots of Bradford and moved south to the capital to find acting work.

Shortly after arriving in the big smoke he met band mates Matthew Edun (Guitar and Vocals) and the boy Churchy (Bass and Vocals), whose previous band had just imploded after becoming the first unsigned act to hit the UK top 40 with a debut single.

With Marcus influenced by British acts like Joy Division and Bowie and Matthew an old school blues nut, the pair introduced each other to their record collections to create a noise which led one reviewer to gush - ‘Burning Condors have distilled the essence of the blues, added a dash of rockabilly swagger and forced it through a modern art punk filter to come up with something fresh and new’.

After cutting their teeth on the London gigging scene, they earned a break with a run of support slots for Punk Blues favourites Legendary Shack Shakers. After seeing Burning Condors strut live, Shack Shakers’ double bassist and Producer Mark Robertson invited the boys out to his studio in Nashville, Tennessee to cut an album.

However, the album session was put in jeopardy by the bands commitment to laying it all on the line for the live show, when Marcus suffered a collapsed lung on stage a few weeks before the band were due to fly out to Nashville. The incident occurred at legendary live venue 12 Bar Club and immediate surgery was required after the show was over.

Fortunately, Marcus ignored doctor’s orders to remain in the UK and the recording of the band’s debut album entitled ‘Round Our Way’ (slated for release in the latter part of 2013) went ahead at Stainless Sound Studios in Nashville.

The album features performances by session legend Dave Roe (double bassist for Johnny Cash’s band Tennessee Three) and Col JD Wilkes (Dirt Daubers) who guests on debut single ‘Honey Trap’, a track which has seen the band receive both US and UK airplay.

As well as devotion to their craft as musicians, the band take a huge involvement in their videos and art work, collaborating with emerging photographers, illustrators and animators from London’s exciting young art scene to create visuals, which add a new dimension to their music.

Debut album ‘Round Our Way’ is due for release in September 2013.

Website: www.burningcondors.com 
Tumblr: www.burningcondors.tumblr.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Burning-Condors/169413266408723 
Myspace: www.myspace.com/burningcondors 
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/burningcondors   
Bandcamp: http://burningcondors.bandcamp.com 
Twitter: @BurningCondors

'If I were King' is the debut solo single from Nicholas James Mallins.
Available for download from March 9th, It is the first movement in the triptych 'Le Rebutant'


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