Virgin Soldiers are a British band from the South-East of England.  

After its premiere performances at the Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in October 2014, The Dreamers will be receiving its West End debut at the St James Theatre, London, in 2015.  

In the years that commemorate the centenary of the First World War, Virgin Soldiers and the cast of The Dreamers have performed music from the show at the West End Live Preview, the Leeds Castle Open Air Classical Concert alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the We Will Remember Them concert at St John’s Smith Square in aid of Combat Stress, Heroes at Highclere Castle (home of Downton Abbey) and the launch of military charity Never Such Innocence at Australia House.  The show has has been featured on BBC South East news, ITV Meridian News, and BBC Radio One, and continues to receive a wide amount of publicity.

Since forming in 2010, Virgin Soldiers have supported Keane, McFly, Joan Armatrading, Toploader, Steve Cradock and Jack Savoretti.  They have worked the festival circuit and played at some of the UK’s leading venues including Union Chapel, the Lees Cliff Hall in Folkestone, King’s Theatre in Portsmouth, NME’s Best Small Venue the Tunbridge Wells Forum and London venues such as The Bull & Gate, Water Rats, and The Bedford. 

In 2012 the band’s single Moon Song reached No. 3 in the Amazon Rock Chart behind Ed Sheeran and Coldplay, No. 19 in the Independent Breakers’ Chart, and No.2 in the Amazon Hot New Rock Releases Chart.  In 2014, their debut EP #LOVESTROCK entered the Itunes Singer/Songwriter Album Chart at No. 12 and received national airplay on BBC 6 Music.

We are a 4 piece Pop-Punk/Alternative Rock Band from Surrey .

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Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

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