We Have Band are playing The Academy 2 on Saturday Ferbruary 18th.

We Have Band are 3 friends, Darren Bancroft and husband and wife duo Thomas and Dede Wegg-Prosser, who met whilst working at a record label, they left to form a band, play Glastonbury, release an album and tour the world. The trio achieved this through the success of their debut album ‘WHB’ which was critically acclaimed by everyone from NME to Dazed & Confused.

For their second album the band decided moving forward would mean a radical change in their approach. From the music through to the lyrics, they wanted to create something ‘timeless’, and so they began to look inward, mining the experiences that they had shared as their career had taken off. The result, ‘Ternion’, is a very different record, an intensely personal album that manages to be both uplifting and melancholic.

Gone are the nonsense lyrics, replaced by frank and honest accounts of their relationships, their struggles to understand the world around them and the effect, both physical and emotional, of a life on the road. Laying themselves bare, songs like ‘What’s Mine, What’s Yours’ reveal a completely new side to the band. With half the tracks written and their touring commitments over, the band retired to their Hereford base to finish writing the new album. Away from London, with no desire or need to fit into any particular scene, the album’s new sound began to emerge and as each track was developed and more and more live instrumentation was added the shape of the album began to coalesce.

Ex- Clor member and Foals producer Luke Smith produced the album at his Flesh and Bones studio in London, where his determination to push the band to get the sound just right has paid off. Whilst much of what made the first album so special is still there, especially the sublime interplay between the 3 band members’ vocals, this is a very different record. When WHB was released, much was made of how the band ‘wore their influences like a flak jacket’. With ‘Ternion’, they have found a truly unique sound of their own.

Dede: “ We can stand by this album and be proud. As Darren said there's so much more of us and our personal lives that have been put into it that it has become part of us. The first album was of the moment. We believe this one will still sound good in ten or twenty years time.”

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