Temples on stage during the On Blackheath Music Festival 2015
Temples are an English rock band formed in Kettering in 2012 by singer and guitarist James Edward Bagshaw and bassist Thomas Edward James Walmsley. The band's lineup was later completed with the addition keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Adam Smith and drummer Samuel Toms. They have released one studio album, two EPs and a number of singles. Their debut album, Sun Structures, was released in 2014 and charted at number seven in the UK. They are signed to Heavenly Records and have toured internationally both as support act and as headliner. The band was initially formed as a home studio project in mid 2012. Warmsley and Bagshaw had known each other for years before these projects. It was at this point that Bagshaw and Warmsley were in rival bands based in their hometown of Kettering. The duo had later worked together in The Moons, with Bagshaw also having sessioned with the Lightning Seeds and co-fronted another earlier Kettering band Sukie who formed in 2006 and charted at No 1 in the UK Indie Chart with their debut single "Pink-A-Pade". Sukie were featured in the fanzine "Siren", edited and created by Warmsley to document Kettering's music scene. The duo uploaded four self-produced tracks to YouTube which caught the attention of Heavenly Recordings founder Jeff Barrett who agreed to release the band's debut single in the form of "Shelter Song" in November 2012. They then enlisted fellow Kettering resident drummer, Samuel Lloyd Toms (Secret Fix, ex-Koolaid Electric Company) and keyboard player Adam Smith and started rehearsing as a band, so they could play their songs live, having never played live as a band before. The band released their second single "Colours To Life" in June 2013. Temples performing at Coachella in 2014 In an interview with Sound of Boston, lead vocalist James Bagshaw noted that signing on to Heavenly Records did not change their recording process. "Nothing changed, everything stayed exactly the same"
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Location: Blackheath, Lewisham, London, UK.
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