Sometimes big is actually better... and when you hear the music Brigade create you'll understand why.

Brigade writes huge, beautiful songs. They create muscular, passionate tunes that blow up into enormous soundscape epics, while always retaining the all-important ingredient the song. Powerful, sometimes earth shattering, sometimes timid, Brigade's sound is unique and compelling.

It's not emo, it's not indie, it's not pop Brigade cannot be limited to genre pigeonholes their tunes live outside such limitations as anyone who has heard them will testify.

Indeed their debut EP 'Made To Wreck' (released in Sept 2005)- takes you on a journey of honest, bare emotion and shuddering hard driving rock rhythms. Produced by Joe Gibb (Funeral For A Friend, Johnny Truant, Million Dead) and Gethin Woolcock, it features four blistering tracks of alt-rock. Will Simpson's vocals flit between being angelic and harmonious one minute to filling the stadiums with his enormous powerful roar the next.

Residing in London via Bristol, Suffolk and Japan Brigade came together in 03 aiming to create music that would combine hard-hitting rock with sensitivity. Their 'Safe Hands' demo gained the quartet significant interest in rock circles and in support, the quartet have been constantly touring the UK and building up a live following just like all bands with longevity have done before them.

2006's activity looks set to cement the band's position at the vanguard of the current rock renaissance. The critically acclaimed eleven track 'Lights' album is filled with infectious enthusiasm and sparkling energy. From the gutpunch heaviosity of 'Queenie' to the languid swirling atmosphere of 'The Hits, The Scrapes' it genuinely takes the listener on an aural journey. Showcasing their florid and barbed artrock stylings, it immediately defines the band as something far outside the tired and pedestrian outpourings of many of their contempories.

Having toured with the likes of Fightstar, Hidden In Plain View, Hundred Reasons and Biffy Clyro, the band are fast becoming live favourites, and with a creative philosophy that defines them as a pure and focused rock band, they are determined to forge their own path.

And Brigade turn it up to 11 on the dial.

Ignore at your peril.

'...Brigade have the confidence and ability to strike out in pretty much any direction they choose...They could mature into one of the UK's most important bands' KERRANG!
'...a towering beast of a rock band!' NME
'... they're sure to accomplish truly great things. This is guitar music at its most pure and vital...If we had more bands like Brigade to reinforce the strength of our homegrown music scene, who knows what heights it could reach.' ROCKSOUND
'... one of the defining albums of 2006' BURN
'...another fantastic UK rock band about to break through into the mainstream' ZERO
'... a clutch of great and beautiful songs!' METAL HAMMER
'...'Lights' is simply a muscular, dynamic and genre-defying modern rock record, bristling with its own ideas and a strong sense of self.' KERRANG!