Sometimes it can take years (& years) of hard work and a lot of disappointment to become an overnight success. Mikey Goldsworthy, Emre Turkmen and Olly Alexander have been doggedly plugging away with their swoony fusion of electropop with millennial R&B vocals since 2010, but it was only relatively recently that things have taken off sufficiently for Mikey and Olly to quit their jobs (waiter and architect, respectively) and focus on performing full time. And their reward? Seeing their band named as the ±«Óătv’s Sound of 2015.
Olly had a slightly different route, in that he was already getting parts as an actor—he was in Skins, and last year’s The Riot Club—and was therefore gig-ready as soon as success came calling. It still took a while for the band to get noticed, however. In fact it wasn’t until the release of Sunlight—Olly’s September 2014 collaboration with Belgian producer The Magician—that people finally began to realise they had a chart-beating band on their hands. A message that wasn't really properly hammered home until first Desire (No.22) and then King (No.1) consolidated their arrival properly.
Sometimes it can take years (& years) of hard work and a lot of disappointment to become an overnight success. Mikey Goldsworthy, Emre Turkmen and Olly Alexander have been doggedly plugging away with their swoony fusion of electropop with millennial R&B vocals since 2010, but it was only relatively recently that things have taken off sufficiently for Mikey and Olly to quit their jobs (waiter and architect, respectively) and focus on performing full time. And their reward? Seeing their band named as the ±«Óătv’s Sound of 2015.
Olly had a slightly different route, in that he was already getting parts as an actor—he was in Skins, and last year’s The Riot Club—and was therefore gig-ready as soon as success came calling. It still took a while for the band to get noticed, however. In fact it wasn’t until the release of Sunlight—Olly’s September 2014 collaboration with Belgian producer The Magician—that people finally began to realise they had a chart-beating band on their hands. A message that wasn't really properly hammered home until first Desire (No.22) and then King (No.1) consolidated their arrival properly.
