The Fallout Trust

Two childhood close friends from Bristol spent amount of time in 2001 bicycling around Berlin, hearing Iggy Pop and David Bowie on shared earphones as they sought out the legendary Hansa studios (where Bowie and Pop incidentally recorded). That’s all it had taken to inspire the close friends, vocalist Joe Wintertime and guitarist/vocalist Man Connelly, to start out a music group upon their come back home to Britain — well, that and various other cited influences just like the Affiliates, the Beatles, Speaking Heads, and Scott Walker. Not really ones to spend your time, they quickly enlisted the others of what would end up being the Fallout Trust: Winter’s siblings Matt and Jess (lead acoustic guitar/piano and violin/keyboards, respectively) and close friends Gavin Ellis (bass/vocals) and Matt Watson (drums/development). The sextet transformed an East London subterranean warehouse within the picture of Hansa as their space for living, composing, and documenting. Affectionately termed Q Quarters, the location is also house towards the group’s artwork/film companions Duckeye (who make the band’s video clips) along with a bimonthly golf club night how the music group throws for the East London party group. It had been at among these soirésera how the band’s music impressed MOST IMPORTANTLY Recordings, as well as the Fallout Trust inked a cope with the label in 2004. Two limited-edition EPs had been released in 2005, combined with the singles “Washout” and “Prior to the Light Moves,” all to essential acclaim. They self-recorded their debut recording at Q Quarters, and In case there is the Flood premiered in 2006 on EMI.