It all started in 2006 when Ben, Paul & Charlie were all working together in Leeds. They got a band together to play the Christmas party doing standard rock covers and then realised that Ben and Paul were playing the wrong instruments and swapped resulting in instant success. Not long after that Ben found Matt performing an acoustic set at an open-mic night and despite some reluctance as they didn’t get on, Ben asked Matt to join the band which he duly did.

As fate would have it Matt and Ben subsequently ended up living in a shared house together and a musical partnership was formed. The covers got dropped and the newly formed Red Light Revival started gigging. Lead guitarists with the band initially had a shorter life expectancy than first world war fighter pilots yet despite this RLR reached the finals of a Northern Battle of the Bands and recorded two EPs in 2009 and 2012, both of which met with good reviews on the Leeds gig circuit. Sadly due to “musical differences” the success was to be short lived and the band parted company with another lead guitarist. During a year off Charlie took to playing in covers band and introduced the existing members of Red Light Revival to Jon, a lead guitarist and a previous member of a signed band in Spain with a number one single to his name (if you ask him about it he will do his very best not to tell you). Ben and Matt decided that they would make a conscious effort to stop bickering for long enough to write a third EP which we are glad to confirm is due to be recorded in September of this year.