Losing Sun is:

Paul Kelleher – vocals
Mark Phillips – guitar
Matt Morgan - bass|vocals
Owen Weeks - drums

Cardiff 1997. Losing Sun’s story begins as do many bands, with a group of friends deciding to make the music they want to listen to, as nobody else was.

Combining influences ranging from Willie Nelson through to Slayer and seemingly most points in between, along with the unfortunate knack of spinal tap proportions for losing drummers, against the odds the band developed their style into the formidable sound that they demonstrate today. This sound is what makes Losing Sun’s labours all worth while – a dark and brooding complex noise that ebbs and flows, seething with a passionate undercurrent that has become their trademark, all the while remembering that a song is just that – a song.

Quickly becoming a well known force to be reckoned with on the local circuit, once described after a blistering performance by one particular journalist as a ‘motorway pile up between Deftones and Refused’, the live setting is where Losing Sun truly come into their own. Playing with bands who would later become Funeral For A Friend, local faves Midasuno amongst others, competition was always fierce which worked well in their favour, the biggest problem proving to be the promoters inability to spell the bands name correctly!

This competition forced the band to continually raise their game, helping secure higher profile shows with the likes of Lostprophets, Defenestration and Napalm Death, illustrating well how the band refused to let their music be pigeonholed.

The writing on their T-shirts says ‘to lose, to fail, to suffer waste’, if they continue as they have been they’ll need to change that pretty quickly.

Links

• Losing Sun - official site

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