Public Access TV are a band firmly planted in downtown New York City. Before they released their first song, played their first show, or even had a name, Public Access TV were a band. Best friends out every night together, sharing clothes, cigarettes, pocket change, and most importantly living together in a dilapidated East Village loft where they could stay up all night playing music... loudly.
"It wasn't like 'let's start a band'," 24-year-old singer and main
songwriter John Eatherly says of the formation. "We already were playing music and hanging out together all the time. We were all doing different things, playing as hired guns for anybody just to pay the rent, and then one day I came in with these songs I wrote and we all just knew this was something we wanted to do for real."
What followed was a whirlwind of activity; when the band put their debut track "Monaco" online in 2014, it was met with instant accl...
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Public Access TV are a band firmly planted in downtown New York City. Before they released their first song, played their first show, or even had a name, Public Access TV were a band. Best friends out every night together, sharing clothes, cigarettes, pocket change, and most importantly living together in a dilapidated East Village loft where they could stay up all night playing music... loudly.
"It wasn't like 'let's start a band'," 24-year-old singer and main
songwriter John Eatherly says of the formation. "We already were playing music and hanging out together all the time. We were all doing different things, playing as hired guns for anybody just to pay the rent, and then one day I came in with these songs I wrote and we all just knew this was something we wanted to do for real."
What followed was a whirlwind of activity; when the band put their debut track "Monaco" online in 2014, it was met with instant acclaim from UK tastemakers such as NME and BBC. This track along with several more critically acclaimed singles and an EP, launched the band on tours in the US and UK supporting acts like Weezer and Gang of Four. Everything was moving on the correct trajectory when in April 2015, while PATV were on tour in California, they flicked on the TV to see live pictures of their Manhattan loft on every single news channel. It was on fire from a gas explosion and then collapsed into rubble.
"We wrote there, rehearsed, recorded, lived, everything," says John. "It was home... and then it was completely gone."
Demoralised and thousands of miles from NYC, PATV did the only thing they could think of. As John says: "We told our agent to book as many gigs as possible - because we actually had nowhere to go."
But, as things happened, that chain of events was to set PATV on an entirely new and fruitful path. Among those frantic gig bookings were a bunch of festivals in Europe, as well as dates with The Strokes, FIDLAR and Palma Violets.
After playing live so much, the band felt the need to get into the studio right away to capture their new momentum and recorded their debut album while in London.
The band recently released the first preview of the album with the AA-side single "In Love and Alone" / "Patti Peru". Public Access TV's debut album will be released in 2016 with a official new single in January.
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