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Sunset Sons are a four piece UK & Australian Rock/Indie band, based out of the town of Hossegor, in the Landes region of the South West of France, known as ‘The European Surfing Capital’. The band have released four EPs and their debut album 'Very Rarely Say Die' is expected in 2016. They have toured throughout UK, Ireland, Europe and the west coast USA. ==Formation== The seed of the band formed when drummer Jed Laidlaw was visiting a bar called Le Surfing, based at Estagnot beach near Hossegor, to visit a friend he had met whilst teaching surfing in the Canary Islands. That night, singer Rory Williams was performing in the bar, where he also worked washing dishes. Rory had moved there a year earlier on his way to Biarritz to surf. They hit it off and decided to start a band to make some money over the winter season, alongside friends Robin Windram (guitar) and Pete Harper (Bass). They originally formed a covers band called The Cheerleaders, relocating to the French Alps for the winter to perform for the young snowboard crowd in the three valleys, basing themselves predominantly in the towns of Tignes and Val d’Isere. After performing sometimes up to three shows a day in the various bars of the ski resorts, and becoming known for their raucous shows and unusual choices of songs, ranging from Queens of the Stone Age, to Kanye West, they decided to write their own material. On relocating back to Hossegor for the summer they changed their name to Sunset Sons and spent every Friday in a local dance studio writing songs. Jed sent some demos to former Sony executive Steve Milbourne who was Jed’s label manager when he drummed in a previous band. Steve was looking for a new management project at the time and flew to Hossegor to see them perform four songs in a tiny bar, and was impressed by the crowd reaction. Steve helped them record their debut demo EP in a house they rented in Hossegor over the winter, with producer James Lewis. They named it Le Surfing EP after the bar where they met.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='We Once Got Paid In Underpants': How Did These Tignes Seasonaires Become The Hottest New Band On The Planet? )〕 Le Surfing was self released on February 20, 2014, and climbed to #6 in the iTunes Rock Chart. This caught the attention of record companies and publishers. Steve was keen that the band be seen in their natural habitat, so arranged a tour of the French Alps, and a subsequent tour of surf towns in the UK, refusing to play any major cities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='We Once Got Paid In Underpants': How Did These Tignes Seasonaires Become The Hottest New Band On The Planet? )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunset Sons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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