Coastal Cities

Coastal Cities are a fresh indie-dance band comprised of five teenage friends from High Wycombe, west of London. Inspired by Contemporary indie music, The Smiths, Joy Division and other 80's New Wave bands, (but also by dance music and the musical chemistry they discovered between each other); Coastal Cities set out to make music people like them could relate to and dance to. Declan Cullen (guitar/vocals), Sean Semmens (guitar) and Lewis Slade(drums) met at school during the Summer of 2009 and at once discovered a mutual love of music as well as a shared lethargy with the bands that dominated the local music scene. The three started practicing together in Lewis’garden shed (where they still rehearse today). After recruiting Dan Hardy (bass) and William Clark (keys) soon after, Coastal Cities was fully formed. By playing local shows and house parties for friends they quickly created a niche that felt a long way from a local scene they found cliquey and uninviting. The name they chose reflected this. Originally suggested by a friend it sounded nothing like the bands they were keen to separate themselves from but also hinted at places a long way from their hometown. However, it was when they posted songs on Soundcloud that people (a long way) away from High Wycombe really started to take notice. The Drums tweeted that they couldn’t stop listening to the song “Think Tank” and out of the blue, French music bible Les Inrockuptibles posted about the band on their website calling the same song “irresistible”. Le Figaro followed suit posting about “Night School” which all lead to the band playing live in Paris even before they had played a show in their own capital city. Things then moved quickly for the band... After a string of live shows they released their first music video for their single "Thinktank" in November 2011 and soon after released the "Thinktank EP" which came out on Once Upon a Time Records, following a show in Rotterdam in December 2011. In early 2012, the band worked closely with new and upcoming British producer Hugh Worksett, in which they recorded three new tracks. One of which was the new single "Relief" which the band released in July 2012 along with a fresh new B-side "The Voyage" and their second Official Music Video. The band are currently writing and playing shows and hope to release a third single in Autumn 2012.