Glasvegas

Glasvegas are a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow. The band consists of James Allan (vocals), Rab Allan (lead guitar), Paul Donoghue (bass guitar) and Jonna Löfgren (drums). The band received critical acclaim for their platinum selling debut album Glasvegas which was released in September 2008, reaching No. 2 in the UK Album Charts and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in September 2009. The album went on to enjoy further critical and commercial success in North America and in Sweden (where it went Gold). On 14 December 2010, the band announced the appointment of a new drummer, Jonna Löfgren from Boden in Sweden. The release on 4 April 2011 of their second album Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\ saw the band reach No.10 in the UK and No.1 in Sweden. The album was critically acclaimed but commercially less successful than the band's debt album. To date...the band have toured the world twice including a trip to China and have toured North America an unprecedented seven times. In May 2013 the band announced that for the second time in their careers they had signed a worldwide major record deal with one of the world's biggest music companies; BMG Chrysalis. The band will release their third album Later...When The TV Turns To Static worldwide in September 2013.

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