Everything Everything
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Everything Everything performing in Kiev in December 2015
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Art pop, art rock, indie rock, electronica, experimental pop |
| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Website | www |
| Members | Jonathan Higgs Jeremy Pritchard Michael Spearman Alex Robertshaw |
| Past members | Alex Niven |
Everything Everything are an English indie rock band from Manchester that formed in late 2007. The band have released three albums to date – 2010's Man Alive, 2013's Arc and 2015's Get To Heaven – and have been widely critically acclaimed. Their work was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and received three nominations for the Ivor Novello Award.
Three of the original band members are from Northumberland, England - Jonathan Higgs (lead vocals, keyboards, laptop and guitar) grew up in the border village of Gilsland while Michael Spearman (drums, vocals) and Alex Niven (guitars, vocals) are from Newbrough. The three met at Queen Elizabeth High School in Hexham where they played music together. Higgs went on to study for a degree in Popular Music and Recording at Salford University, where he met Kent-born bass player Jeremy Pritchard. Higgs and Pritchard decided to form a band once their degree had finished.
Towards the end of 2006, Higgs and Niven devised plans to start a band "with a sort of Paul Morley-inspired, poptimist aesthetic". Niven has described the band's naming process as follows: "The idea as I saw it was to try to take contemporary R&B pop music and fashion a vaguely Futurist project out of it, and between the two of us we chose the name Everything Everything, a détournement of sorts of an over-saturated media culture into something idealistic and expansive". With the addition of Pritchard and Spearman, the band began performing in the autumn of 2007. Pritchard recalls "We were initially more punky, with more guitars and no synths at all. It was easiest to play gigs like this and to get to grips with playing together. But the plan was always to expand the sound when we had the scope/could afford the gear!"
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