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How Slaves conquered Later...
A year ago Slaves popped along to the filming of Later... with Jools Holland to watch Drenge, twelve months on they're storming the show themselves. Here's their story so far...
In case you don't know Slaves, they're a raucous garage punk duo from Tunbridge Wells in Kent...
...being smart chaps, they started putting their music on the Uploader at the start of 2012 (at 5 in the morning)
Slaves Uploader profile
BBC Introducing in Kent heard their tracks, gave the band their first plays and have supported them since...
tracklisting from BBC Introducing in Kent on 15th July 2012
The Kent team then put them forward to play our stage at Reading and Leeds in 2013...and they delivered BIG TIME:
The boys recorded a special session at the legendary Maida Vale studios
Watch all four tracks from their session here.
...they started gaining fans...
Radio 1 got on board and gave them a playlist spot earlier this year...
...and as if that wasn't enough, they absolutely stole the show at Later playing alongside U2 and Interpol, with this ridiculously good performance:
...safe to say, they went down pretty well:
...all this and their debut album isn't even out yet!
Keep in touch with all things Slaves and listen to them on BBC Playlister via their BBC Music artist page.
If you're making music of your own, get it on the Uploader and you could find yourself getting airplay, performing on one of our festival stages or heading to Maida Vale to record a session.
