2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

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CHVRCHES

Friday, March 18
1:00PM - 1:30PM

Radio Day Stage
531 E 4th St

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A lot has changed for CHVRCHES in the past few years.

When the Glaswegian trio wrote and recorded their debut, The Bones Of What You Believe (2013), no one had heard of them. The three members (Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and Lauren Mayberry) came together with the idea of working on a writing project together, unsure of what path that would take other than one which belied their previous musical projects and foregrounded melody and classic songwriting styles before everything else. There were no pre-existing ideas of what the record would or should be like, no pre-conceptions and nothing to live up to – just three people in a basement studio in Glasgow making music they believed in.

The Bones of What You Believe went on to sell over 500,000 albums worldwide. The band enjoyed critical success, with accoladed coming from Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone, Q, NME and many more. They made their debut US TV performance on Jimm...

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Details

Access
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Genre
Pop
Event Type
Showcase
From
Glasgow, UK-SCOTLAND
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