Little Man Tate (band)

Little Man Tate

Little Man Tate are a four-piece indie band from Sheffield, England and formed in 2005. The band quickly began attracting interest from several record labels and in March 2006 signed to V2 Records. Their fifth single, Sexy In Latin was released on 22nd January and became their highest charting single yet, entering the official UK singles chart at number 20.

The band made extensive use of the Internet to gather a fanbase, which may be in part responsible for their relatively rapid rise, with only twelve months having passed from formation to their signing with the V2 record label. Like many other up and coming bands they made extensive use of MySpace as well as their own forum to communicate with and co-ordinate fans.

In recognition of their online community's role in their success, the band gave forum members priority booking tickets for their 2006 Christmas show at the Sheffield Boardwalk.

History

The band originally formed under the name Carousel Moon, which was later shortened to The Moon. Under this name they found much success and built a large fanbase. After using this name for a couple of years they decided to change both their image and style, which resulted in a name change. For a short period of time they were known as Lazy Eye. Unfortunately, a lot of their old fanbase were unaware of the name change, and their fanbase dropped. After using this name for a number of months, they went under another, final name change and have become more popular than ever. During the name change from Lazy Eye to Little Man Tate the number in the band dropped from 5 to 4 as the second guitarist Charlie Waites left to form a new band.

Their first single, The Agent, was released on 7" with Just Can't Take It as the B-side. All 1,800 copies sold out as pre-orders. The song got rated 9/10 by Teletext's Planet Sound.

Both The Agent and What? What You Got were released under the band's own label, Yellow Van Records, a tribute to their old yellow van which was stolen along with all their equipment at an early gig at Fibbers (Barfly) in York.

In April 2006 the band played a hometown, sellout gig at the Plug venue in Sheffield. Following this, they completed sell out gigs at London, Leeds and York amongst others. In August 2006, Little Man Tate played their first festival at the Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester, UK. The band have also featured in such magazines as Rolling Stone, NME, Sandman, Q, Radio Coma amongst other leading magazines. As well as being featured heavily on radio stations such as Revolution in Manchester and Manx Radio in Isle of Man. Also in August 2006, Little Man Tate played the Reading and Leeds festivals on the Carling Stage to great acclaim.

The Agent was recently shown to be No 6. in Planet Sound's top 50 singles of 2006.

They also signed autographs at the Sheffield City Centre HMV on January 22nd 2007

In 2006, Adam White became a member of their fanbase. He has been rumoured to have said that his lifelong ambition is to sleep with the drummer, as drummers supposedly make better lovers. He stood in for the bassist in early 2007, but it was promptly decided he would be sacked after the room emptied after only 3 songs. His later attempt at crowdsurfing was therefore, fatal. Jon Windle said it was a great relief as he didnt want to have to be the one to give him the sack and Adam's death was probably the 19 year old bassists way of allowing the band to prosper without him in the future. It is this selfless act which has been attributed to Little Man Tate's recent success.

Discography

Albums

• 2007 - About What You Know #27 UK

Singles

• 2006 - "The Agent" #117 UK
• 2006 - "What? What You Got" #40 UK
• 2006 - "House Party at Boothy's" #29 UK
• 2006 - "Man I Hate Your Band" #26 UK
• 2007 - "Sexy In Latin" #20 UK
• 2007 - "This Must Be Love" released march 26th

External links

• Little Man Tate official website
• Little Man Tate on MySpace
• Little Man Tate at Fabchannel
• About What You Know album review on Rockfeedback