Bombay Bicycle Club are an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London, consisting of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram, and Ed Nash. They are guitar-fronted and have experimented with different genres, including folk, electronica, world music and indie rock.
members: Jamie MacColl, Jack Steadman, Ed Nash, Suren De Saram
formed in: Crouch End
labels: Island Records
genres: indie rock
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Steadman, MacColl (son of former Bible/Liberty Horses guitarist/producer/session player Neill MacColl, nephew of singer Kirsty MacColl and grandson of folk singers Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) and de Saram (son of Sri Lankan cellist Rohan de Saram) met at age 15 as students at University College School, Hampstead (in the same year as the members of the band Cajun Dance Party), and began playing under the name The Canals after performing together in a school assembly, with an additional keyboardist. They switched between various aliases until they picked Bombay Bicycle Club, named after a (now defunct) chain of Indian restaurants in North London. The line-up changed regularly until the summer of 2006, when Nash (a student at Camden School...
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"Always Like This" is the second single from Bombay Bicycle Club, and the first from their debut album I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. The single was released on 13 April 2009 and is available on 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl and download.
The single was produced by Jim Abbiss, and the limited 12" includes remixes by Tim Goldsworthy and James Rutledge. It reached #97 on the UK Singles Chart on 25 April 2009, becoming the group's first single to reach the British pop chart.
It was re-released on the 22 November 2009 as an EP with two new remixes and an alternative version of the original single.
A cover version of "Always Like This" was released by Austrian electronic music duo HVOB in 2013.
"Shuffle", by British alternative rock band Bombay Bicycle Club, is the first single released from their third studio album, A Different Kind of Fix. Through Island Records, the single was released on 23 June 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom.
The song was chosen as "Record of The Week" by UK radio DJ Zane Lowe. "Shuffle" would become one of the band's most commercially successful singles.
The music video was uploaded to VEVO and YouTube on 22 July 2011. It features Lucy Rose, a fellow artist who is friends with the band. With over three million views, it is the band's most viewed video on YouTube and VEVO to date.
The song is featured in the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs and in the 2013 video game MLB 13: The Show. The song was featured in one episode of MTV series Catfish: The TV Show.
"Lights Out, Words Gone" is the second single by the British rock band Bombay Bicycle Club from their third studio album, A Different Kind of Fix. Released through Island Records on 14 October 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom, the single peaked at number 89 on the UK Singles Chart.
A music video to accompany the release of "Lights Out, Words Gone" was first released on YouTube on 6 October 2011, with a total length of three minutes and forty-two seconds. The singer