The Good Natured

Lovestarrs
Lovestarrs in 2014
Background information
Origin	Highclere, Hampshire, England
Genres	Synthpop
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Regal, Parlophone, Astralwerks
Website	www.lovestarrs.com
Members	Sarah McIntosh Hamish McIntosh George Hinton

Lovestarrs (formerly known as The Good Natured) are an English synthpop band, consisting of Sarah McIntosh (born January 1991 in Highclere, Hampshire) on vocals and keyboards and her brother Hamish McIntosh on bass and formerly George Hinton (with whom Sarah became acquainted at university) on drums.

Sarah began playing the violin as a child, but felt it was not the right instrument for her, so she turned towards playing the drums. She also sang in a choir when she was a child. At the age of 14 she salvaged an old Yamaha keyboard while spring cleaning her grandmother's house. She taught herself to play the keys and at age 15 began to write her first own songs and founded a band with her brother Hamish. Later she went to university to study music, but found that both, studying and pursuing her musical career, was unmanageable. She therefore decided to drop out from university and concentrate on her own music.

After attracting thousands of listeners with their first song, Our Very Last, The Good Natured self-released their debut EP Warriors on 7 July 2008. The EP received a lot of press coverage, especially for the lyrics. Their second EP Your Body Is a Machine was released independently as well on 13 September 2009.

In March 2011, The Good Natured signed a deal with Regal Recordings and Parlophone, under which they released their EP Skeleton on 20 June 2011. The lead track, Skeleton peaked at No. 68 on the German singles top 100. They also signed to Astralwerks in the United States, where they made their debut with the release of Skeleton on 11 October 2011. On 9 December 2012, The Good Natured released their debut single, 5-HT with an accompanying music video. The song failed to make an impact on any major charts. Also in 2012, The Good Natured and Vince Clarke released the song Ghost Train as a free download.

On 28 March 2013, the band announced that their debut album would be titled Prism. However, on 25 July 2013, the group announced via their Facebook account that they had been dropped from their label a few months earlier, and had spent the ensuing time in an unsuccessful effort to get the masters back so that they could self-release the album. They also stated that the band's final show would be at the Temple of Boom stage at the Secret Garden Party that same month.