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Golden Silvers were an English band from London signed to independent record label XL Recordings. The line-up consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Gwilym Gold, Ben Moorhouse on bass guitar, and Robden Alexis Nunez on drums.[1]

Early stages

The band gained recognition by winning Glastonbury's prestigious New Talent competition in 2008 and subsequently performed on The Other stage that year.[1][2] They played the Glastonbury Festival in 2009.[3]

Music

The band released its debut album True Romance on 20 April 2009.[4] Describing the new album, The Guardian's reviewer wrote "flamboyant lyrics, references to Greek myth and big, elastic bass lines dominate".[5]

Appearances

The band performed two songs on Later...with Jools Holland during May 2009[6] and have supported Blur at Hyde Park, London. They played a popular set at Reading festival 2009 and gave away necklaces to the audience as thanks for coming to see them.

Aside from live appearances, Golden Silvers' vocalist Gwilym Gold curates a quarterly live event night named 'Bronze Club' at East London pub 'The Macbeth'.[7] Bronze Blog is known to showcase a wide variety of musicians and DJs including Mystery Jets, The Invisible, Micachu, Esser, Everything Everything, Othello Wolf and many more. Since its inception, Bronze Club has said to have gathered a strong following, which has led attendants to dress up in relation to the Ages of Man in Greek Mythology; gold, silver and bronze.[8]

Discography

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak positions
UK
2009 True Romance 96

Singles

Year Single Peak positions Album
UK
2009 "True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)" 142 True Romance
"Arrows of Eros"
"Please Venus"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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