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p-and-coming rock band EofE only formed in 2013, but the Black Country band have already
Uperformed in some of the UK's biggest venues, touring with the likes of McBusted and The
Vamps. The band, comprised of vocalist Tom Harris, guitarists Dan Bremner and Reece Luke, bassist
Luke Bradley and Nicky Waters on drums, have been described as 'perfect crossover rock' and al-
ready have a strong, ever-growing fanbase. We chat with the band about supporting McBusted,
doing ritual-like grunts, and how they keep the female subjects in their songs a secret.
laying to thousands of people in a sold whole stage, it was nice to have the space… screaming, swearing and a bit of hugging, and
Pout arena is something all bands and to play to a few thousand people!” we didn't stop screaming and shouting for a
dream about, and for EofE, this dream came They tell us about the day they initially while!”
true within only a year of forming the band found out that they had landed the McBusted
when they supported McBusted on their 32 support slot. “There was a bet made, that one ofE originally formed after guitarist
date arena tour around the UK. “It was incred- of us would have to do something if we got the EDan and bassist Luke met at school.
ible to be given an opportunity of this size,” tour. We knew that if we had gotten the tour our “Me and Dan were friends in school,” Luke
says Luke. “We were very nervous when we manager was going to give us a certain item,” says, “and we had different bands throughout.
first turned up at the arena in Glasgow, having Luke explains. “We were on our way back from We first played together in a funk band that
gone from a 300 cap room to a 20,000 cap a meeting in Birmingham and our manager was run by the music staff and involved a lot of
arena in a matter of months. Although it was drove us to Sainsburys. We were all in the car music students.”
very nerve-racking for us, we were running on park and he passed us a bag. When we They later met vocalist Tom and drummer
adrenaline and we were determined to make opened it we just looked at it at first, then Nicky. “Dan met Tom through former girlfriends,
our mark and prove we could handle venues someone asked if we'd got the tour and he just and they both had bands and played in each
this size. We soon got used to working the nodded. As you can imagine we went mental, other's bands. Dan convinced Tom to join him

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