The Little Flames

The Litlle Flames are a band whose music can best be described as indie rock with some 60s inspiration, slightly similar to the coral. Fans include the Arctic Monkeys, who could be seen wearing little flames t shirts at a recent gig at the Astoria in London.

The story of The Little Flames starts one night last December when two 22-year olds in search of something were introduced to three 17-year olds in search of nothing, by the legendary dub and punk DJ Babylon Fox.

Says one Little Flame, ‘We ended up back at this dingy basement flat on the park, and just stayed up all night wired and trying to keep warm, playing as fast as we could. We had this 70s Casio keyboard with a drum machine, and some horrible, cheap rusty-stringed guitars. The flat above was abandoned, so we cranked everything up well loud …it was kicking off! The drum machine was broken and would only play fast, so we just stopped up all night – pure noise and speed – and wrote a few songs.

‘When we woke up we couldn’t remember any of the tunes at all. All we had was a dictaphone recording with Joe and Miles screaming and ad-libbing on, and the very last bit of one of the tunes. Eva had pages of lyrics scribbled down, and Greg had completely dismantled the drum machine to make an ashtray. We’d only been together about 18 hours. Proper chaos. After listening back to the end of the tape, we put together an early version of Goodbye Little Rose. It’s the first proper Little Flames tune, so we were all really up for it being our first record…’

The band are...

Eva Petersen - Vocals Greg Mighall - Drums Joe Edwards - Bass Miles Kane - Guitar Mat Gregory - Guitar

The little flames will be supporting the coral on their UK tour in october and november 2005. For more info or to hear their music go to www.thelittleflames.com