LostProphets are...

• Ian Watkins - vocals
• Lee Gaze - guitar
• Mike Lewis - guitar
• Stuart Richardson - bass
• Jamie Oliver - turntables
• Mike Chiplin - drums

"We've all been playing in bands since we were like 14, so we have a lot of history. We started out just playing metal covers at friends parties, and things went from there. People came and went, we changed our name a lot. We met people from different musical backgrounds, like DJ's and stuff. We basically kept evolving until we were happy with what we were doing, and decided to take it a more seriously. We formed late '97, did a demo and sent it to Metal Hammer. We were kinda combining every style of music we liked, in no particular order. We had a DJ and a sax player, just messing round. The demo received a 10/10 review, so we sat back and waited for a deal, ha ha. That never came, so we did a second one, early '98, which was even weirder. That got out to a few zines. But it was all kinda tongue in cheek. Just us fuckin' around. Somehow we got a little feature in Kerrang! and played a Kerrang! night. We spent most of 99 doing other stuff. I graduated and some of the others went travelling etc. When we got back we did a new demo and sent it off to the only record label address we had. They were interested and offered us a deal. A lot of people have said that we shouldn't have gone for the first deal but we just wanted to get out there and not mess about. So far it's been good. We'll see how it goes."

Since then, alot has happened: Their debut thefakesoundofprogress sold brilliantly, and led them on to their second album Start Something. This also sold brilliantly, and led them onto filling stadiums. New album Liberation Transmission also bodes well for sales. Great.

Releases

• 4am Forever - single, out 23/04/2007 on Visible Noise. (post review)
• A Town Called Hypocrisy - single, out 11/09/2006 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)
• Liberation Transmission - album, out 26/06/2006 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)
• Start Something - album, out 02/02/2004 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)
• Last Train Home - single, out 26/01/2004 on Visible Noise. (post review)
• Burn Burn - single, out 03/11/2003 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)
• Fake Sound of Progress - single, out 04/03/2002. (post review)
• The Fake Sound of Progress (Remastered) - album, out 27/11/2001 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)
• thefakesoundofprogress - album, out 15/01/2001 on Visible Noise. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Carling Weekend Reading Festival - Sunday, Sun 26 Aug at Reading Little John's Farm. (post review)
• Carling Weekend Leeds Festival - Friday, Fri 24 Aug at Leeds Bramham Park. (post review)
• Sun 22 Apr at London Wembley Arena. (post review)
• Thu 15 Feb at London Astoria. (post review)
• Sat 09 Dec at London Hammersmith Apollo. (post review)
• Tue 28 Nov at Portsmouth Guildhall. (post review)
• Fri 24 Nov at Reading Rivermead Leisure Complex. (post review)
• Tue 18 Jul at Norwich UEA. (post review)
• Wed 12 Jul at Nottingham Rock City. (post review)
• Mon 10 Jul at Brighton Dome. (post review)
• Fri 07 Jul at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Sun 30 Apr at London Earls Court Exhibition Centre. (post review)
• Sat 20 Nov at Manchester Apollo. 1 review (read/post)
• Fri 21 Nov at Manchester Evening News Arena. 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 09 Oct at Manchester Academy. 1 review (read/post)
• Sun 24 Jun at London Kentish Town Forum. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 05 Jun at London Brixton Academy. 1 review (read/post)
• Sat 21 Apr at Kingston Peel. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 05/02/2008: Headliners announced for Download Festival
• 04/12/2006: Chart round-up: must be nearing Christmas, 'cause the charts are shite...
• 22/11/2006: Lostprophets hope their next record is "very different"
• 25/08/2006: Kerrang! Awards: My Chemical Romance win big
• 17/08/2006: Lostprofits? Nah, this tour'll make a mint...
• 24/05/2006: Lostprophets return with new single, album and tour
• 12/01/2006: Give It A Name 2006 announced. Pray they don't balls it up again...
• 06/12/2005: Wales honours its finest talents. And GLC...
• 20/06/2005: Drummer Mike Chiplin departs lostprophets
• 25/10/2004: Head Automatica play one-off headline show in addition to Lostprophets dates

Features

• 28/07/2006: Lostprophets vs Winnebago Deal
• 21/06/2004: thisGIRL: Album News + Tour + Support Lost Prophets
• 13/11/2003: We might be dropped next year

Links

• Lostprophets - official site

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